Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Trading 2.1% Higher – Time to Buy?

Shares of Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) traded up 2.1% during mid-day trading on Friday . The company traded as high as $233.60 and last traded at $231.09. 23,394,319 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 46% from the average session volume of 16,028,212 shares. The stock had previously closed at $226.34.

Key Headlines Impacting Nebius Group

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

• Positive Sentiment: Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness LP disclosed a 5.6% stake in Nebius, signaling strong outside confidence in the company’s AI cloud growth story. Nebius Stock Jumps as Billion-Dollar Hedge Fund Takes Big Stake
• Positive Sentiment: Nebius raised 2026 capex to $20 billion-$25 billion as sold-out AI capacity and 2027 demand commitments point to continued rapid expansion. Nebius Raises Capex to $20-$25B: A Bold Growth Move or Risky Bet?
• Positive Sentiment: Several articles highlight growing investor interest in Nebius as an AI infrastructure winner, reinforcing the bullish momentum behind the shares. Nebius Stock Surges on Backing From This Big AI Investor

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities analysts have issued reports on the stock. DA Davidson cut shares of Nebius Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and boosted their price objective for the company from $200.00 to $250.00 in a research report on Monday, May 18th. Weiss Ratings upgraded shares of Nebius Group from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “hold (c)” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 20th. BWS Financial upped their price objective on shares of Nebius Group from $130.00 to $200.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, March 16th. Citizens Jmp upped their price objective on shares of Nebius Group from $175.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock a “market outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, May 14th. Finally, Freedom Capital cut shares of Nebius Group from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, April 13th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have given a Buy rating and five have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $182.75.

Nebius Group Trading Up 2.1%

The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $158.85 and its 200-day moving average price is $117.49. The stock has a market cap of $58.47 billion, a P/E ratio of 74.55 and a beta of 4.03. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16, a current ratio of 8.33 and a quick ratio of 8.33.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.77) by $0.54. The firm had revenue of $399.00 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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 quarterly revenue was up 684.0% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that Nebius Group N.V. will post -2.35 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity

In other news, CTO Danila Shtan sold 13,489 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $98.78, for a total value of $1,332,443.42. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer owned 307,378 shares in the company, valued at approximately $30,362,798.84. This represents a 4.20% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, 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 completion of the transaction, the insider owned 585,209 shares in the company, valued at approximately $118,937,877.16. This represents a 46.07% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last three months, insiders have sold 666,935 shares of company stock worth $123,541,848.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in NBIS. State Street Corp lifted its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 2,391.3% in the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,219,326 shares of the company’s stock worth $269,474,000 after buying an additional 3,090,103 shares in the last quarter. Capital Research Global Investors bought a new position in Nebius Group in the fourth quarter worth approximately $231,635,000. Fred Alger Management LLC raised its position in Nebius Group by 33.4% in 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 during the period. Accel Leaders 3 Associates L.P. bought a new position in Nebius Group in the fourth quarter worth approximately $188,496,000. Finally, Qube Research & Technologies Ltd bought a new position in Nebius Group in the third quarter worth approximately $238,511,000. 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.