Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Trading Down 1% – Here’s Why

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) shares fell 1% during trading on Friday . The stock traded as low as $180.63 and last traded at $187.97. Approximately 22,628,760 shares were traded during trading, an increase of 31% from the average session volume of 17,320,662 shares. The stock had previously closed at $189.88.

Key Nebius Group News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Citigroup assigned Nebius a new $278 price target, while the broader analyst consensus remains “Moderate Buy,” indicating that some Wall Street analysts still see substantial upside. Nebius Given New $278 Price Target at Citigroup Nebius Receives Moderate Buy Recommendation
• Positive Sentiment: Investor interest remains supported by Nebius’ AI data-center expansion and strong underlying demand. The company’s most recent quarterly results exceeded revenue and EPS expectations, although the upcoming report will be important in determining whether capacity investments are translating into profitable growth.
• Neutral Sentiment: Options-market positioning implies heightened volatility around next week’s earnings announcement. Investors are watching revenue growth, data-center deployment costs, capital spending and the pace at which new capacity generates sales. Nebius Stock and Options Market Ahead of Earnings
• Negative Sentiment: Famed investor Michael Burry disclosed a short position in Nebius, arguing that AI-related companies look overvalued and vulnerable. His comments have intensified scrutiny of Nebius’ premium valuation, debt-funded growth and data-center plans. Michael Burry Says He Is Shorting Nebius
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst downgrading and profit-taking have added to the selling pressure after the shares’ substantial advance over the past year. A Nebius director also sold approximately $1.5 million of stock, a relatively small disposal compared with his remaining holdings but another potential sentiment headwind. Nebius Shares Following Analyst Downgrade Nebius Director Stock Sale

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Wall Street Zen lowered shares of Nebius Group from a “sell” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research note on Saturday. DA Davidson downgraded shares of Nebius Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and increased their target price for the stock from $200.00 to $250.00 in a research report on Monday, May 18th. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on Nebius Group from $126.00 to $144.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, May 14th. Freedom Capital raised Nebius Group from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Monday, July 20th. Finally, Citizens Jmp upped their price target on Nebius Group from $175.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock a “market outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 14th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have assigned a Buy rating and seven have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $221.64.

Nebius Group Stock Performance

The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $224.43 and its 200 day moving average price is $163.44. 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 company has a market cap of $47.56 billion, a P/E ratio of 60.64 and a beta of 4.23.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.81) by $0.58. Nebius Group had a net margin of 95.27% and a negative return on equity of 9.11%. The business had revenue of $399.00 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $375.13 million. Nebius Group’s quarterly revenue was up 684.0% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts expect that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.57 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity

In other Nebius Group news, CRO Marc Boroditsky sold 10,776 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $276.20, for a total transaction of $2,976,331.20. Following the completion of the sale, the executive directly owned 26,886 shares in the company, valued at $7,425,913.20. This represents a 28.61% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CEO Arkadiy Volozh sold 46,627 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, July 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $235.45, for a total value 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 approximately $193,460,317.90. This represents a 5.37% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 651,704 shares of company stock worth $137,422,230.

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in NBIS. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank grew its position in Nebius Group by 34,371.3% in the 4th quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank now owns 93,762 shares of the company’s stock worth $7,848,000 after purchasing an additional 93,490 shares during the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. bought a new position in shares of Nebius Group during the 4th quarter worth about $24,756,000. Lombard Odier Asset Management Switzerland SA acquired a new position in shares of Nebius Group during the first quarter valued at about $1,087,000. Geode Capital Management LLC raised its position in shares of Nebius Group by 1,095.7% during the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 2,046,799 shares of the company’s stock valued at $169,840,000 after buying an additional 1,875,612 shares during the last quarter. Finally, HB Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Nebius Group in the first quarter valued at about $735,000. Institutional investors own 21.90% of the company’s stock.

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.