DA Davidson Forecasts Strong Price Appreciation for Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Stock

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) had its target price lifted by research analysts at DA Davidson from $200.00 to $250.00 in a research note issued to investors on Thursday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has a “buy” rating on the stock. DA Davidson’s price objective indicates a potential upside of 13.67% from the stock’s previous close.

NBIS has been the subject of several other research reports. Wall Street Zen cut Nebius Group from a “sell” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research note on Saturday, April 11th. BWS Financial boosted their target price on Nebius Group from $130.00 to $200.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, March 16th. Cantor Fitzgerald started coverage on Nebius Group in a research note on Thursday, April 9th. They set an “overweight” rating and a $129.00 target price for the company. Weiss Ratings upgraded Nebius Group from a “sell (d+)” rating to a “hold (c-)” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. Finally, Wolfe Research began coverage on Nebius Group in a research note on Thursday, April 16th. They set a “peer perform” rating for the company. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have assigned a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $182.75.

Nebius Group Price Performance

NBIS stock opened at $219.94 on Thursday. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $138.08 and a 200 day moving average price of $111.08. The stock has a market cap of $55.65 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 70.95 and a beta of 4.03. Nebius Group has a fifty-two week low of $34.72 and a fifty-two week high of $233.73. The company has a quick ratio of 3.08, a current ratio of 3.08 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, May 13th. The company reported ($0.23) earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.77) by $0.54. The firm had revenue of $399.00 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $375.13 million. Nebius Group had a negative return on equity of 10.59% and a net margin of 95.27%.The business’s revenue was up 684.0% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts anticipate that Nebius Group will post -2.39 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CEO Arkadiy Volozh sold 33,358 shares of Nebius Group stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, April 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $103.73, for a total value of $3,460,225.34. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 868,289 shares in the company, valued at $90,067,617.97. The trade was a 3.70% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, Director Elena Bunina sold 10,894 shares of Nebius Group stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $206.87, for a total value of $2,253,641.78. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 10,772 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,228,403.64. This trade represents a 50.28% decrease in their ownership of the stock. 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. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 657,335 shares of company stock worth $121,545,984.

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

A number of institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management boosted its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 2.7% in the first quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management now owns 2,977 shares of the company’s stock valued at $309,000 after buying an additional 79 shares in the last quarter. Wealth Alliance LLC boosted its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 1.6% in the first quarter. Wealth Alliance LLC now owns 5,008 shares of the company’s stock valued at $520,000 after buying an additional 80 shares in the last quarter. Aspen Grove Capital LLC boosted its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 3.7% in the first quarter. Aspen Grove Capital LLC now owns 2,522 shares of the company’s stock valued at $262,000 after buying an additional 89 shares in the last quarter. WPG Advisers LLC boosted its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 3.6% in the first quarter. WPG Advisers LLC now owns 2,799 shares of the company’s stock valued at $290,000 after buying an additional 98 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Harbor Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 0.4% in the third quarter. Harbor Advisors LLC now owns 27,600 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,099,000 after buying an additional 100 shares in the last quarter. 21.90% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

More Nebius Group News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Citi raised its price target on Nebius Group to $287 from $169 and kept a buy rating, signaling confidence in further upside after the company’s strong AI infrastructure growth and earnings beat. Benzinga article
• Positive Sentiment: Multiple articles highlighted Nebius’ Q1 results, including 684% year-over-year revenue growth, improved AI cloud economics, and a rapidly expanding contracted capacity pipeline, which are fueling bullish sentiment around the stock. Yahoo Finance article
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts from DA Davidson, Citizens JMP, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley all revisited or raised their forecasts after the quarter, reinforcing the view that Nebius is emerging as a major AI infrastructure player. Yahoo Finance article
• Neutral Sentiment: Nebius’ new Missouri AI factory and broader gigawatt-scale buildout are giving investors tangible progress to track, but they also imply significant capital spending and execution risk as the company scales. Yahoo Finance article
• Neutral Sentiment: One director sold shares under a pre-arranged trading plan, which is not necessarily a negative signal but may catch investor attention after the stock’s sharp move higher. InsiderTrades filing
• Negative Sentiment: Some commentary argues NBIS may be overbought after its sharp rally, and Morgan Stanley’s $144 target remains well below the current trading level, suggesting valuation concerns could lead to volatility. TheStreet article

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.