Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Shares Down 3% Following Analyst Downgrade

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) was down 3% during trading on Wednesday after Citigroup lowered their price target on the stock from $287.00 to $278.00. Citigroup currently has a buy rating on the stock. Nebius Group traded as low as $214.74 and last traded at $218.99. Approximately 15,535,643 shares changed hands during trading, a decline of 10% from the average daily volume of 17,215,875 shares. The stock had previously closed at $225.74.

Other equities research analysts have also issued reports about the stock. DA Davidson lowered shares of Nebius Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and lifted their price target for the company from $200.00 to $250.00 in a report on Monday, May 18th. Cantor Fitzgerald started coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research report on Thursday, April 9th. They issued an “overweight” rating and a $129.00 target price on the stock. Zacks Research cut shares of Nebius Group from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, July 31st. Freedom Capital upgraded shares of Nebius Group from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Monday, July 20th. Finally, Weiss Ratings upgraded Nebius Group from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “hold (c)” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 20th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have given a Buy rating and seven have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $221.64.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Nebius Group news, CTO Danila Shtan sold 16,937 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, July 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $235.45, for a total transaction of $3,987,816.65. Following the sale, the chief technology officer directly owned 274,763 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $64,692,948.35. The trade was a 5.81% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CRO Marc Boroditsky sold 10,776 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $276.20, for a total transaction of $2,976,331.20. Following the sale, the executive directly owned 26,886 shares in the company, valued at $7,425,913.20. The trade was a 28.61% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold a total of 651,704 shares of company stock valued at $137,422,230 over the last three months.

Key Stories Impacting Nebius Group

Here are the key news stories impacting Nebius Group this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Citigroup maintained a Buy rating on Nebius Group while lowering its price target from $287 to $278. The revised target still implies approximately 24% upside from the cited share price, providing continued Wall Street support. Benzinga analyst update
• Positive Sentiment: Nebius appointed Lindsey Irvine as chief marketing officer. Her experience scaling go-to-market operations at Square, Benchling and MuleSoft could support the company’s global expansion and customer acquisition in the competitive AI-cloud market. Nebius appoints Lindsey Irvine as Chief Marketing Officer
• Neutral Sentiment: Investor coverage increasingly frames Nebius as a fast-growing “neocloud” provider with vertically integrated infrastructure, NVIDIA ties and major AI-infrastructure agreements. However, comparisons with CoreWeave highlight Nebius’ smaller scale and less-established contracted-revenue visibility. Better Neocloud Stock: CoreWeave vs. Nebius
• Neutral Sentiment: A recent trading alert identified strong “power inflow,” suggesting bullish order-flow activity from institutional and retail participants, though such technical signals do not change the company’s fundamentals. Nebius Shares Rise After Key Trading Signal
• Negative Sentiment: Analysts expect a decline in upcoming earnings, and Zacks says Nebius lacks the combination of estimate revisions and earnings-surprise momentum typically associated with a likely beat. Rising spending, financing needs and potential margin pressure also weigh on the outlook. Analysts Estimate Nebius Group to Report a Decline in Earnings
• Negative Sentiment: Piper Sandler initiated coverage with a Neutral rating and a $224 price target, while naming rival CoreWeave its preferred AI-cloud investment. That relative downgrade may encourage investors to favor competitors as AI-infrastructure spending accelerates. Piper Sandler Initiates Coverage on Nebius Group

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

Several institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of NBIS. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd increased its holdings in Nebius Group by 12.4% in the second quarter. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd now owns 17,651,930 shares of the company’s stock valued at $976,681,000 after purchasing an additional 1,949,708 shares during the period. Jennison Associates LLC grew its position in shares of Nebius Group by 134.3% in the 2nd quarter. Jennison Associates LLC now owns 3,983,899 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,100,233,000 after buying an additional 2,283,676 shares during the last quarter. Morgan Stanley grew its position in shares of Nebius Group by 35.2% in the 4th quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 3,704,659 shares of the company’s stock valued at $310,099,000 after buying an additional 964,984 shares during the last quarter. Clear Street Group Inc. increased its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 95.0% in the fourth quarter. Clear Street Group Inc. now owns 3,511,656 shares of the company’s stock valued at $293,943,000 after buying an additional 1,710,924 shares during the period. Finally, Janus Henderson Group PLC increased its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 14.9% in the first quarter. Janus Henderson Group PLC now owns 3,221,553 shares of the company’s stock valued at $334,263,000 after buying an additional 416,733 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 21.90% of the company’s stock.

Nebius Group Stock Down 3.0%

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16, a current ratio of 8.33 and a quick ratio of 8.33. The company has a market capitalization of $55.41 billion, a P/E ratio of 70.64 and a beta of 4.23. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $225.81 and a 200-day moving average price of $161.88.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.81) by $0.58. The business had revenue of $399.00 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $375.13 million. Nebius Group had a negative return on equity of 9.11% and a net margin of 95.27%.The firm’s revenue was up 684.0% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, research analysts predict that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.91 EPS for the current fiscal year.

About Nebius Group

Nebius Group N.V., a technology company, builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning and other technologies to help consumers and businesses navigate the online and offline world. The company’s services include Nebius AI, an AI-centric cloud platform that offers infrastructure and computing capability for AI deployment and machine-learning oriented solutions; and Toloka AI that offers generative AI (GenAI) solutions at every stage of the GenAI lifecycle, such as data annotation and generation, model training and fine-tuning, and quality assessment of large language model for accuracy and reliability.