Brokerages Set Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) PT at $182.75

Shares of Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) have been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the fifteen ratings firms that are presently covering the stock, MarketBeat.com reports. Five analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation, nine have given a buy recommendation and one has assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year price target among brokerages that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $182.75.

A number of equities research analysts have recently issued reports on NBIS shares. Wolfe Research started coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research report on Thursday, April 16th. They issued a “peer perform” rating for the company. Freedom Capital cut shares of Nebius Group from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, April 13th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Nebius Group from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Saturday, May 16th. Compass Point initiated coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research report on Wednesday, February 18th. They set a “buy” rating and a $150.00 price objective for the company. Finally, DA Davidson cut shares of Nebius Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and upped their price objective for the stock from $200.00 to $250.00 in a research report on Monday, May 18th.

Key Stories Impacting Nebius Group

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

• Positive Sentiment: Situational Awareness LP disclosed a 5.6% stake in Nebius, making it one of the company’s largest institutional holders and signaling strong confidence in Nebius’ AI infrastructure growth story. Situational Awareness Stake Puts Spotlight On Nebius AI Infrastructure Story
• Positive Sentiment: Multiple reports said the stake helped fuel a sharp move higher, with traders viewing the purchase as validation of Nebius as a leading “neocloud” and AI compute provider. Nebius Stock Jumps as Billion-Dollar Hedge Fund Takes Big Stake
• Positive Sentiment: The company’s recent operating momentum remains supportive, with prior results showing 684% revenue growth and improving margins, reinforcing the bull case around AI demand and capacity expansion. Nebius’ 684% Revenue Surge Hides A Risk Nobody’s Talking About
• Neutral Sentiment: Commentary from market personalities like Jim Cramer and renewed attention from investors is adding visibility, but these mentions are more sentiment-driven than fundamentally new. Jim Cramer Discusses Nebius’ (NBIS) Latest Deal
• Neutral Sentiment: Nebius has also been highlighted for its U.S. AI campus buildout and major data-center expansion plans, which support the long-term story but are not the immediate catalyst for today’s move. Nebius Group AI Campus Groundbreaking Shapes U.S. Growth And Valuation Story

Nebius Group Trading Up 8.6%

Shares of Nebius Group stock opened at $226.34 on Friday. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $156.60 and a 200-day moving average of $116.69. The stock has a market cap of $57.27 billion, a PE ratio of 73.01 and a beta of 4.03. Nebius Group has a 52-week low of $34.72 and a 52-week high of $233.73. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16, a quick ratio of 8.33 and a current ratio of 8.33.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.77) by $0.54. The company had revenue of $399.00 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $375.13 million. Nebius Group had a net margin of 95.27% and a negative return on equity of 9.11%. The business’s revenue was up 684.0% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Nebius Group will post -2.33 EPS for the current year.

Insider Activity

In related news, General Counsel Boaz Tal sold 5,100 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $199.39, for a total transaction of $1,016,889.00. Following the completion of the sale, the general counsel owned 80,754 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $16,101,540.06. This represents a 5.94% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Elena Bunina sold 10,894 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $206.87, for a total transaction of $2,253,641.78. Following the sale, the director directly owned 10,772 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,228,403.64. This represents a 50.28% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last three months, insiders sold 666,935 shares of company stock worth $123,541,848.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Nebius Group

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd raised its stake in Nebius Group by 12.4% during the second quarter. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd now owns 17,651,930 shares of the company’s stock worth $976,681,000 after acquiring an additional 1,949,708 shares in the last quarter. Fred Alger Management LLC raised its stake in Nebius Group by 33.4% during the third quarter. Fred Alger Management LLC now owns 10,132,279 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,137,551,000 after acquiring an additional 2,536,832 shares in the last quarter. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. raised its stake in Nebius Group by 55.7% during the third quarter. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. now owns 4,607,497 shares of the company’s stock worth $517,284,000 after acquiring an additional 1,648,497 shares in the last quarter. Morgan Stanley raised its stake in Nebius Group by 35.2% during the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 3,704,659 shares of the company’s stock worth $310,099,000 after acquiring an additional 964,984 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Clear Street Group Inc. raised its stake in Nebius Group by 95.0% during the fourth quarter. Clear Street Group Inc. now owns 3,511,656 shares of the company’s stock worth $293,943,000 after acquiring an additional 1,710,924 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 21.90% of the company’s stock.

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.