Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Stock Price Up 27.1% – Time to Buy?

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) shot up 27.1% on Thursday . The stock traded as high as $195.89 and last traded at $188.43. 41,541,659 shares were traded during mid-day trading, an increase of 143% from the average daily volume of 17,067,096 shares. The stock had previously closed at $148.22.

Key Stories Impacting Nebius Group

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

• Positive Sentiment: Vera Rubin milestone supports near-term sentiment. Nebius said a Vera Rubin compute rack is now live at its Mäntsälä, Finland, data center. Investors viewed the deployment as evidence of execution and expanding AI-compute capacity. Nebius stock soars on achieving an incremental milestone
• Positive Sentiment: Broad AI-cloud rebound is lifting NBIS. Commentary from Zacks argues that forced selling and margin liquidations may have removed leveraged investors, potentially creating room for a rebound in AI-infrastructure shares. Nebius was among the leading AI-cloud names recovering alongside CoreWeave and Oracle. Nebius Soars as AI Cloud Names Snap Back
• Positive Sentiment: Potential Meta demand highlights growth opportunities. Meta could potentially spend tens of billions of dollars with CoreWeave and Nebius, according to a report. Such arrangements would reinforce demand for third-party AI-compute providers, although Meta may eventually develop competing capacity. Meta Could Spend With CoreWeave and Nebius
• Neutral Sentiment: Second-quarter results are scheduled for August 12. The upcoming earnings release gives investors a near-term catalyst to assess revenue growth, capacity expansion, margins and customer demand. Nebius announces second-quarter results date
• Neutral Sentiment: Nebius published its 2025 sustainability report, outlining energy, water and community initiatives as it scales toward multiple gigawatts of capacity. The report provides operational context but is unlikely to be a major immediate earnings driver. Nebius 2025 Sustainability Report
• Negative Sentiment: Competition and volatility remain key risks. Meta’s potential investment could eventually help it build competing infrastructure, while rising credit-swap costs and margin liquidations recently pressured the AI-cloud trade. NBIS’s high valuation and sharp price swings leave it particularly sensitive to changes in financing conditions and AI sentiment. Credit-swap costs hit the AI-cloud trade

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

NBIS has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Northland Securities lifted their target price on shares of Nebius Group from $248.00 to $410.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, July 20th. Citigroup increased their price target on Nebius Group from $169.00 to $287.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, May 15th. Robert W. Baird started coverage on Nebius Group in a research report on Wednesday, July 22nd. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $250.00 price target on the stock. Freedom Capital raised Nebius Group from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Monday, July 20th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald started coverage on Nebius Group in a report on Thursday, April 9th. They issued an “overweight” rating and a $129.00 price objective for the company. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have given a Buy rating and five have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, Nebius Group presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $222.15.

Nebius Group Price Performance

The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $226.62 and its 200 day simple moving average is $159.04. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16, a current ratio of 8.33 and a quick ratio of 8.33. The stock has a market cap of $47.68 billion, a P/E ratio of 60.78 and a beta of 4.10.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.81) by $0.58. Nebius Group had a negative return on equity of 9.11% and a net margin of 95.27%.The company had revenue of $399.00 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $375.13 million. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 684.0% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.91 earnings per share for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, 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 sale, the insider owned 585,209 shares in the company, valued at $118,937,877.16. This represents a 46.07% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, CRO Marc Boroditsky sold 10,776 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $276.20, for a total value of $2,976,331.20. Following the completion of the sale, the executive directly owned 26,886 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $7,425,913.20. The trade was a 28.61% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders have sold 668,405 shares of company stock valued at $140,422,170 in the last quarter.

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in NBIS. Allied Private Wealth LLC bought a new position in shares of Nebius Group in the 2nd quarter valued at about $25,000. Parkside Financial Bank & Trust bought a new stake in shares of Nebius Group in the 4th quarter valued at about $25,000. Root Financial Partners LLC acquired a new stake in Nebius Group in the 4th quarter valued at about $26,000. SHP Wealth Management acquired a new stake in Nebius Group in the 4th quarter valued at about $26,000. Finally, Sound Income Strategies LLC grew its holdings in Nebius Group by 62.5% during the first quarter. Sound Income Strategies LLC now owns 260 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 100 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds 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.