Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Trading Up 8.6% – Still a Buy?

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS)’s stock price was up 8.6% during trading on Thursday . The company traded as high as $232.89 and last traded at $226.34. Approximately 25,517,976 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 60% from the average daily volume of 15,956,840 shares. The stock had previously closed at $208.37.

Nebius Group News Roundup

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

• Positive Sentiment: Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness LP disclosed a 5.6% stake in Nebius, signaling strong outside confidence in the company’s AI cloud growth story. Nebius Stock Jumps as Billion-Dollar Hedge Fund Takes Big Stake
• Positive Sentiment: Nebius raised 2026 capex to $20 billion-$25 billion as sold-out AI capacity and 2027 demand commitments point to continued rapid expansion. Nebius Raises Capex to $20-$25B: A Bold Growth Move or Risky Bet?
• Positive Sentiment: Several articles highlight growing investor interest in Nebius as an AI infrastructure winner, reinforcing the bullish momentum behind the shares. Nebius Stock Surges on Backing From This Big AI Investor

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts have issued reports on the stock. Compass Point assumed coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a report on Wednesday, February 18th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $150.00 price target for the company. Bank of America raised their target price on shares of Nebius Group from $175.00 to $205.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, May 11th. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on shares of Nebius Group from $126.00 to $144.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, May 14th. Citigroup raised their target price on shares of Nebius Group from $169.00 to $287.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, May 15th. Finally, Freedom Capital cut shares of Nebius Group from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, April 13th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have assigned a Buy rating and five have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Nebius Group has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $182.75.

Nebius Group Stock Up 2.1%

The company has a current ratio of 8.33, a quick ratio of 8.33 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16. The company has a market capitalization of $58.47 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 74.55 and a beta of 4.03. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $158.85 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $117.49.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.77) by $0.54. The company had revenue of $399.00 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $375.13 million. Nebius Group had a net margin of 95.27% and a negative return on equity of 9.11%. The firm’s revenue was up 684.0% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Nebius Group N.V. will post -2.33 EPS for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CEO Arkadiy Volozh sold 33,358 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, April 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $103.73, for a total transaction of $3,460,225.34. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 868,289 shares in the company, valued at approximately $90,067,617.97. This represents a 3.70% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, insider Andrey Korolenko sold 500,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $203.24, for a total transaction of $101,620,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider owned 585,209 shares in the company, valued at approximately $118,937,877.16. This represents a 46.07% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last quarter, insiders have sold 666,935 shares of company stock valued at $123,541,848.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Nebius Group

Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank grew its position in shares of Nebius Group by 34,371.3% in the 4th quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank now owns 93,762 shares of the company’s stock valued at $7,848,000 after buying an additional 93,490 shares during the last quarter. J.W. Cole Advisors Inc. grew its position in shares of Nebius Group by 123.9% in the 3rd quarter. J.W. Cole Advisors Inc. now owns 33,488 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,760,000 after buying an additional 18,533 shares during the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Nebius Group in the 4th quarter valued at $24,756,000. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. grew its position in shares of Nebius Group by 52.0% in the 3rd quarter. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. now owns 86,169 shares of the company’s stock valued at $9,674,000 after buying an additional 29,494 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Nordea Investment Management AB purchased a new position in Nebius Group during the 4th quarter worth $1,401,000. 21.90% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Nebius Group Company Profile

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.