Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Trading Up 3.2% – Here’s What Happened

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) shares were up 3.2% on Thursday . The stock traded as high as $211.67 and last traded at $210.63. Approximately 10,596,858 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 41% from the average daily volume of 17,880,379 shares. The stock had previously closed at $204.09.

Nebius Group News Summary

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

• Positive Sentiment: Bullish technical outlook: Barron’s reported that technical indicators suggest NBIS may have established a floor at current levels, with potential upside of nearly 50% by year-end if the trend continues. Why Nebius Group Should Find A Floor at Current Levels
• Positive Sentiment: AI capacity expansion accelerates: Nebius raised its year-end contracted power target from more than 3 gigawatts to 5 gigawatts within six months after securing major AI data-center deals. The larger target strengthens the company’s growth narrative and could materially increase future cloud revenue. How Nebius Group’s AI Data Center Power Surge Could Reshape Investors
• Positive Sentiment: Recent coverage continues to identify Nebius as a leading AI infrastructure stock, with analysts focusing on its pricing model, customer demand and ability to monetize expanded data-center capacity. Nebius Group And 2 Top AI Stocks To Watch
• Neutral Sentiment: Management plans to attend upcoming investor conferences, which could provide additional updates on customer contracts, infrastructure deployment and financial targets but does not represent a new operating announcement. Nebius to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences
• Neutral Sentiment: NBIS was included in a list of stocks with short-squeeze potential. This could amplify gains if short sellers cover positions, but it is a speculative trading factor rather than a fundamental change. 15 Stocks to Watch With Short Squeeze Potential
• Negative Sentiment: Spending and financing concerns: Commentary warns that AI neocloud companies are taking on significant debt to fund data-center construction. Planned capital expenditures of roughly $20 billion could increase financing and execution risk, particularly while bond yields remain elevated. Should CoreWeave and Nebius Investors Be Worried About Circular Financing?
• Negative Sentiment: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described some new AI-cloud capacity plans as potentially “unsustainable silliness,” raising broader concerns about oversupply, aggressive spending and inflated valuations across the neocloud sector. Sam Altman Sees Unsustainable Silliness in AI Compute Spending
• Negative Sentiment: Nebius CFO Sanchez Maria Del Dado Alonso sold 470 shares for approximately $92,120, reducing her direct stake by 3.71%. The relatively small transaction may weigh modestly on sentiment but does not materially change insider ownership. SEC Insider Transaction Filing

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Robert W. Baird lifted their price objective on shares of Nebius Group from $250.00 to $340.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, August 13th. DA Davidson restated a “neutral” rating and set a $175.00 target price on shares of Nebius Group in a report on Thursday, August 13th. Bank of America increased their target price on Nebius Group from $240.00 to $280.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, June 8th. Northland Securities lifted their price target on Nebius Group from $248.00 to $410.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, July 20th. Finally, Piper Sandler began coverage on Nebius Group in a research report on Monday, August 3rd. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $224.00 price target for the company. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have assigned a Buy rating and seven have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $226.00.

Nebius Group Stock Performance

The firm has a market cap of $53.29 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -7,018.66 and a beta of 4.23. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.82, a current ratio of 4.03 and a quick ratio of 4.03. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $213.78 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $180.66.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 13th. The company reported ($0.12) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.67) by $0.55. The firm had revenue of $582.30 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $567.91 million. Nebius Group had a net margin of 4.55% and a negative return on equity of 6.03%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 454% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $2.38 earnings per share. On average, analysts expect that Nebius Group N.V. will post -3.76 EPS for the current year.

Insider Activity at Nebius Group

In related news, CFO Sanchez Maria Del Dado Alonso sold 470 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, September 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $196.00, for a total value of $92,120.00. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 12,202 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,391,592. This represents a 3.71% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CTO Danila Shtan sold 16,937 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, July 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $235.45, for a total value of $3,987,816.65. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief technology officer owned 274,763 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $64,692,948.35. This trade represents a 5.81% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold 159,013 shares of company stock worth $39,216,975 in the last 90 days.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Confluence Investment Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 2.0% in the second quarter. Confluence Investment Management LLC now owns 2,475 shares of the company’s stock worth $684,000 after purchasing an additional 48 shares during the last quarter. Jasper Ridge Partners L.P. boosted its position in Nebius Group by 0.5% in the second quarter. Jasper Ridge Partners L.P. now owns 16,132 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,455,000 after buying an additional 74 shares during the last quarter. Ancora Advisors LLC boosted its position in Nebius Group by 18.8% in the second quarter. Ancora Advisors LLC now owns 475 shares of the company’s stock valued at $131,000 after buying an additional 75 shares during the last quarter. N.E.W. Advisory Services LLC increased its holdings in Nebius Group by 76.0% in the 2nd quarter. N.E.W. Advisory Services LLC now owns 176 shares of the company’s stock worth $49,000 after buying an additional 76 shares during the period. Finally, Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management increased its holdings in Nebius Group by 2.7% in the 1st quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management now owns 2,977 shares of the company’s stock worth $309,000 after buying an additional 79 shares during the period. 21.90% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

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.