Financial Analysis: HeartCore Enterprises (NASDAQ:HTCR) and Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS)

HeartCore Enterprises (NASDAQ:HTCR) and Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and earnings.

Volatility and Risk

HeartCore Enterprises has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nebius Group has a beta of 3.36, suggesting that its share price is 236% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

1.7% of HeartCore Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.9% of Nebius Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 64.2% of HeartCore Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for HeartCore Enterprises and Nebius Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
HeartCore Enterprises	0	0	0	0	0.00
Nebius Group	0	0	5	2	3.29

Nebius Group has a consensus price target of $68.80, indicating a potential upside of 24.89%. Given Nebius Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Nebius Group is more favorable than HeartCore Enterprises.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares HeartCore Enterprises and Nebius Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HeartCore Enterprises	$30.41 million	0.38	-$1.48 million	($0.14)	-3.54
Nebius Group	$117.50 million	110.53	-$641.40 million	($0.57)	-96.65

HeartCore Enterprises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Nebius Group. Nebius Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HeartCore Enterprises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares HeartCore Enterprises and Nebius Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HeartCore Enterprises	-11.18%	76.78%	23.06%
Nebius Group	N/A	-10.24%	-9.69%

Summary

Nebius Group beats HeartCore Enterprises on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About HeartCore Enterprises

HeartCore Enterprises, Inc., a software development company, provides Software as a Service solutions to enterprise customers in Japan and internationally. Its customer experience management platform includes marketing, sales, service, and content management systems, as well as other tools and integrations, which enable companies to enhance the customer experience and drive engagement. The company also operates a digital transformation business that offers customers with robotics process automation, process mining, and task mining to accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises. In addition, it provides consulting services; and education, services, and support solutions. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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. It also offers Avride, an autonomous driving solution which targets ride-hailing, logistics, e-commerce, and food/grocery delivery as application domains, as well as focuses on autonomous vehicles and delivery robots; and TripleTen, an EdTech service that prepares specialists for STEM roles, and equipping them with essential technology skills. The company was formerly known as Yandex N.V. and changed its name to Nebius Group N.V. in August 2024. Nebius Group N.V. was founded in 1989 and is based in Schiphol, the Netherlands.