Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Trading 6.2% Higher – What’s Next?

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS)’s share price shot up 6.2% on Tuesday . The company traded as high as $229.47 and last traded at $225.74. Approximately 21,128,726 shares were traded during mid-day trading, an increase of 23% from the average session volume of 17,236,016 shares. The stock had previously closed at $212.58.

Key Stories Impacting Nebius Group

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

• Positive Sentiment: Citigroup maintained a Buy rating while lowering its price target from $287 to $278. The revised target remains materially above the recent trading level, signaling continued confidence in Nebius’ AI-cloud growth prospects. Citigroup price target update
• Positive Sentiment: Brokerage coverage overall remains constructive, with Nebius receiving an average “Moderate Buy” recommendation. The company also appointed Lindsey Irvine as chief marketing officer to support its international expansion and go-to-market efforts. Nebius Moderate Buy rating
• Positive Sentiment: Recent coverage highlights Nebius’ positioning as a purpose-built AI infrastructure provider, supported by substantial funding and a long-term capacity agreement with Meta. This differentiates it from older data-center operators that must spend heavily to retrofit facilities for AI workloads. AI infrastructure comparison

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research analysts recently issued reports on the company. Piper Sandler began coverage on Nebius Group in a research report on Monday. They set a “neutral” rating and a $224.00 target price for the company. BNP Paribas Exane assumed coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research note on Tuesday, June 2nd. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $255.00 price target for the company. Northland Securities upped their target price on Nebius Group from $248.00 to $410.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, July 20th. Cantor Fitzgerald began coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research report on Thursday, April 9th. They issued an “overweight” rating and a $129.00 price target on the stock. Finally, Wolfe Research started coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a report on Thursday, April 16th. They set a “peer perform” rating on the stock. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have assigned a Buy rating and seven have given a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $221.64.

Nebius Group Stock Down 13.3%

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16, a quick ratio of 8.33 and a current ratio of 8.33. The firm has a market capitalization of $48.04 billion, a PE ratio of 61.25 and a beta of 4.23. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $226.02 and its 200-day simple moving average is $162.70.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last released its earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.81) by $0.58. The company had revenue of $399.00 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $375.13 million. Nebius Group had a negative return on equity of 9.11% and a net margin of 95.27%.The company’s revenue was up 684.0% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts forecast that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.54 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CEO Arkadiy Volozh sold 46,627 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, July 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $235.45, for a total transaction of $10,978,327.15. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 821,662 shares in the company, valued at $193,460,317.90. This represents a 5.37% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, Director Elena Bunina sold 10,894 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $206.87, for a total transaction of $2,253,641.78. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 10,772 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,228,403.64. This trade represents a 50.28% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold 651,704 shares of company stock valued at $137,422,230 over the last quarter.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Nebius Group

Hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. State Street Corp increased its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 2,391.3% in the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,219,326 shares of the company’s stock worth $269,474,000 after acquiring an additional 3,090,103 shares in the last quarter. Capital Research Global Investors purchased a new stake in shares of Nebius Group during the 4th quarter valued at about $231,635,000. Jennison Associates LLC boosted its stake 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 worth $1,100,233,000 after buying an additional 2,283,676 shares during the last quarter. Accel Leaders 3 Associates L.P. bought a new position in shares of Nebius Group in the 4th quarter worth approximately $188,496,000. Finally, Qube Research & Technologies Ltd purchased a new position in Nebius Group during the third quarter valued at $238,511,000. 21.90% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

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.