Ascentis Independent Advisors Makes New $501,000 Investment in Nebius Group N.V. $NBIS

Ascentis Independent Advisors purchased a new position in Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 4,833 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $501,000.

Other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank increased its position in shares of Nebius Group by 34,371.3% during the 4th quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank now owns 93,762 shares of the company’s stock valued at $7,848,000 after purchasing an additional 93,490 shares during the period. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Nebius Group in the fourth quarter valued at $24,756,000. Nordea Investment Management AB bought a new position in Nebius Group during the fourth quarter valued at about $1,401,000. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in 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 in the last quarter. Finally, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D acquired a new position in Nebius Group during the fourth quarter worth about $8,111,000. 21.90% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Key Stories Impacting Nebius Group

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

• Positive Sentiment: Jim Cramer called Nebius a “juggernaut,” highlighting its AI infrastructure opportunity, its deals with major tech companies, and NVIDIA’s $2 billion investment as validation of the business. Jim Cramer on Nebius: “The Stock’s Been a Juggernaut”
• Positive Sentiment: Investors are also focusing on Nebius’s recent AI-growth catalysts, including strong revenue growth, the Eigen AI acquisition, and plans to expand power capacity toward 800MW–1GW, which support the long-term bull case. Nebius Group gains as investors revisit recent AI-growth catalysts after sharp prior-day pullback
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts and commentary are also framing Nebius as a beneficiary of the growing neocloud market, with some articles arguing the company’s AI cloud momentum and product launches could help justify its rich valuation. Can Nebius Group (NBIS) Justify Its Valuation Following Nasdaq 100 Inclusion And New AI Launches?
• Positive Sentiment: Another bullish angle is that Nebius may be quietly strengthening its AI moat through Saturn Cloud, which could deepen its platform and improve customer stickiness over time. Is Nebius Group (NBIS) Using Saturn Cloud To Quietly Redefine Its AI Moat?
• Neutral Sentiment: There was also broad investor attention on NBIS after strong prior gains, heavy trading volume, analyst price targets clustered well above the current share price, and inclusion-related momentum from the Nasdaq 100 narrative.
• Negative Sentiment: Some of the recent pullback appears tied to concerns that Meta Platforms’ data-center and cloud ambitions could increase competition in AI infrastructure, prompting a “buy the dip” debate rather than a clear fundamental setback. Nebius Stock Sold Off on Meta’s Data Center News. Buy the Dip.
• Negative Sentiment: Recent insider sales by executives, including Andrey Korolenko, Arkadiy Volozh and Danila Shtan, may also weigh on sentiment even though they do not necessarily change the company’s operating outlook.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on the stock. Cantor Fitzgerald began coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a report on Thursday, April 9th. They issued an “overweight” rating and a $129.00 price target for the company. Wolfe Research assumed coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research note on Thursday, April 16th. They issued a “peer perform” rating on the stock. BNP Paribas Exane initiated coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a report on Tuesday, June 2nd. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $255.00 target price on the stock. BWS Financial increased their target price on shares of Nebius Group from $130.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, March 16th. Finally, Freedom Capital cut shares of Nebius Group from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, April 13th. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and six have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Nebius Group currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $203.25.

Insider Transactions at Nebius Group

In related news, CTO Danila Shtan sold 16,937 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, July 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $235.45, for a total value of $3,987,816.65. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer directly owned 274,763 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $64,692,948.35. This represents a 5.81% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Sanchez Maria Del Dado Alonso sold 1,509 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $276.20, for a total value of $416,785.80. Following the sale, the chief financial officer owned 12,672 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,500,006.40. The trade was a 10.64% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 685,822 shares of company stock worth $143,150,295.

Nebius Group Trading Down 0.1%

NASDAQ NBIS opened at $216.20 on Friday. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $224.81 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $148.92. 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 N.V. has a twelve month low of $43.89 and a twelve month high of $299.86. The stock has a market cap of $54.70 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 69.74 and a beta of 4.10.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate 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 business had revenue of $399.00 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $375.13 million. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 684.0% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts anticipate that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.91 EPS for the current year.

Nebius Group 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.