Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Trading Up 2.8% After Analyst Upgrade

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS)’s stock price traded up 2.8% during trading on Monday after Northland Securities raised their price target on the stock from $248.00 to $410.00. Northland Securities currently has an outperform rating on the stock. Nebius Group traded as high as $194.34 and last traded at $182.62. Approximately 16,033,164 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 3% from the average session volume of 16,518,680 shares. The stock had previously closed at $177.71.

A number of other equities research analysts have also recently issued reports on the stock. Morgan Stanley increased their target price on shares of Nebius Group from $126.00 to $144.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 14th. 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. 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 research note on Thursday, May 14th. Bank of America raised their price objective on shares of Nebius Group from $240.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, June 8th. Finally, BNP Paribas Exane started coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research note on Tuesday, June 2nd. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $255.00 target price for the company. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and six have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Nebius Group has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $219.83.

Insider Buying and Selling at Nebius Group

In related news, CTO Danila Shtan sold 16,937 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, July 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $235.45, for a total transaction of $3,987,816.65. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer owned 274,763 shares in the company, valued at $64,692,948.35. This represents a 5.81% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Elena Bunina sold 10,894 shares of the 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 in the company, valued at approximately $2,228,403.64. This represents a 50.28% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold 668,405 shares of company stock worth $140,422,170 over the last quarter.

Nebius Group News Summary

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

• Positive Sentiment: Northland Securities raised its price target on Nebius Group to $410 from $248 and kept an Outperform rating, signaling significant upside potential. Benzinga source article
• Positive Sentiment: Freedom Capital upgraded Nebius from Hold to Buy and raised its target to $200 from $159, saying much of the risk has already been priced in. Stocktwits source article
• Positive Sentiment: Zacks added NBIS to its Rank #1 (Strong Buy) momentum list, which may attract additional momentum-driven buyers. Zacks source article
• Neutral Sentiment: Analysts and commentators are debating Nebius versus other AI growth names and whether the recent drop makes the stock more attractive, reflecting a broader re-rating rather than a new fundamental catalyst. Zacks source article
• Neutral Sentiment: Some articles frame Nebius as a potential “buy-the-dip” opportunity after a more than 40% decline, but they also note ongoing cash burn and financing needs as the company scales its AI cloud infrastructure. Seeking Alpha source article

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of NBIS. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank boosted its holdings in Nebius Group by 34,371.3% during the fourth quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank now owns 93,762 shares of the company’s stock worth $7,848,000 after buying an additional 93,490 shares during the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Nebius Group in the 4th quarter valued at about $24,756,000. Nordea Investment Management AB bought a new stake in shares of Nebius Group in the 4th quarter valued at about $1,401,000. Geode Capital Management LLC raised its position in shares of Nebius Group by 1,095.7% in the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 2,046,799 shares of the company’s stock valued at $169,840,000 after acquiring an additional 1,875,612 shares during the period. Finally, HB Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Nebius Group in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $735,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 21.90% of the company’s stock.

Nebius Group Stock Up 2.8%

The firm’s 50 day moving average is $227.96 and its two-hundred day moving average is $154.07. The firm has a market cap of $46.21 billion, a P/E ratio of 58.91 and a beta of 4.10. The company has a current ratio of 8.33, a quick ratio of 8.33 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16.

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

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.