Accenture (NYSE:ACN) & Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Head-To-Head Comparison

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN) are both large-cap technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Nebius Group and Accenture”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nebius Group	$529.80 million	89.77	$82.50 million	$3.10	60.64
Accenture	$69.67 billion	1.68	$7.68 billion	$12.52	14.02

Accenture has higher revenue and earnings than Nebius Group. Accenture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nebius Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Nebius Group has a beta of 4.23, indicating that its share price is 323% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Accenture has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Nebius Group and Accenture, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nebius Group	0	7	9	2	2.72
Accenture	1	14	12	0	2.41

Nebius Group presently has a consensus target price of $221.64, suggesting a potential upside of 17.91%. Accenture has a consensus target price of $192.96, suggesting a potential upside of 9.95%. Given Nebius Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Nebius Group is more favorable than Accenture.

Profitability

This table compares Nebius Group and Accenture’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nebius Group	95.27%	-9.11%	-3.73%
Accenture	10.66%	26.47%	12.89%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

21.9% of Nebius Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Accenture shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Accenture beats Nebius Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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. It also offers Avride, an autonomous driving solution which targets ride-hailing, logistics, e-commerce, and food/grocery delivery as application domains, as well as focuses on autonomous vehicles and delivery robots; and TripleTen, an EdTech service that prepares specialists for STEM roles, and equipping them with essential technology skills. The company was formerly known as Yandex N.V. and changed its name to Nebius Group N.V. in August 2024. Nebius Group N.V. was founded in 1989 and is based in Schiphol, the Netherlands.

About Accenture

Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management; intelligent automation comprising robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents; and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprising turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services. It also provides change management, HR transformation and delivery, organization strategy and design, talent strategy and development, and leadership and culture services; digital commerce; infrastructure services, including cloud infrastructure managed, cloud and data center, network, digital workplace, database platforms, service management, and cloud and infrastructure security services; data-enabled operating models; technology consulting and AI services; and technology consulting services. In addition, the company offers engineering and R&D digitization, smart connected products, product as-a-service enablement, capital projects, intelligent asset management, digital industrial workforce, and autonomous robotic systems; business process outsourcing; and services related to technology innovation. Further, it provides cloud, ecosystem, marketing, security, supply chain management, zero-based transformation, customer experience, finance consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainability services. The company has a collaboration with Salesforce, Inc. to develop Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.