Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Stock Price Up 5% – What’s Next?

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS)’s stock price rose 5% during mid-day trading on Thursday . The company traded as high as $228.49 and last traded at $222.24. Approximately 14,041,108 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 13% from the average daily volume of 16,082,471 shares. The stock had previously closed at $211.69.

Key Stories Impacting Nebius Group

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

• Positive Sentiment: Nebius launched a NVIDIA-backed Physical AI Living Lab aimed at robotics startups in the UK and Europe, expanding its role in AI cloud and simulation services. Nebius And NVIDIA Lab Links AI Cloud Growth To Robotics Demand
• Positive Sentiment: Investors are focusing on Nebius’s £1.7 billion UK expansion, which adds three NVIDIA-powered sites and signals major capacity growth to meet surging AI demand. Nebius Group’s £1.7 Billion UK Expansion Fuels Bullish Case Despite the Pullback
• Positive Sentiment: Recent coverage highlighted Nebius’s strong Q1 results, including revenue up 684% year over year, higher contracted power guidance, and sharply improved EBITDA margins, reinforcing the bullish AI growth story. Nebius: Still A Buy, Just Not A Table-Pounding Buy
• Neutral Sentiment: Multiple articles also framed Nebius as a fast-growing AI infrastructure stock alongside CoreWeave and other Nvidia partners, adding attention but not a direct new catalyst. 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Infrastructure Stocks Outgrowing Nvidia
• Neutral Sentiment: Other headlines mostly reflected broader AI sector momentum and investor interest rather than a company-specific change in fundamentals. Is Nebius Group N.V. Rallying on AI Demand in NYSE Composite?

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities analysts recently issued reports on NBIS shares. Cantor Fitzgerald began coverage on Nebius Group in a research report on Thursday, April 9th. They issued an “overweight” rating and a $129.00 price objective for the company. BWS Financial raised their target price on shares of Nebius Group from $130.00 to $200.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, March 16th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Nebius Group from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Saturday, May 16th. Bank of America increased their price objective on shares of Nebius Group from $240.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday. Finally, DA Davidson lowered shares of Nebius Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and raised their price objective for the stock from $200.00 to $250.00 in a report on Monday, May 18th. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and six have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Nebius Group presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $203.25.

Nebius Group Stock Performance

The company has a quick ratio of 8.33, a current ratio of 8.33 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16. The firm has a market capitalization of $56.23 billion, a P/E ratio of 71.69 and a beta of 4.03. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $179.49 and a 200-day moving average of $125.92.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last released its earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.77) by $0.54. The firm 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 company’s revenue was up 684.0% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, research analysts anticipate that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.91 EPS for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Nebius Group

In related news, insider Andrey Korolenko sold 500,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $203.24, for a total value of $101,620,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider owned 585,209 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $118,937,877.16. This trade represents a 46.07% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Elena Bunina sold 10,894 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on 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 completion of 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 position. 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 have sold a total of 694,898 shares of company stock valued at $130,681,379 in the last three months.

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. FAS Wealth Partners Inc. bought a new stake in Nebius Group during the first quarter worth about $284,000. Vestor Capital LLC grew its stake in Nebius Group by 456.5% in the first quarter. Vestor Capital LLC now owns 51,066 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,299,000 after purchasing an additional 41,890 shares in the last quarter. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. grew its stake in Nebius Group by 50.0% in the first quarter. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. now owns 750 shares of the company’s stock valued at $78,000 after purchasing an additional 250 shares in the last quarter. Western Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Nebius Group during the 1st quarter worth approximately $293,000. Finally, Rovida Investment Management Ltd increased its position in shares of Nebius Group by 3.6% during the 1st quarter. Rovida Investment Management Ltd now owns 1,893,647 shares of the company’s stock worth $196,333,000 after purchasing an additional 65,000 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 21.90% of the company’s stock.

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.