HighVista Strategies LLC Invests $584,000 in Nebius Group N.V. $NBIS

HighVista Strategies LLC purchased a new position in Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) during the third quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund purchased 5,200 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $584,000.

Several other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. Fred Alger Management LLC grew its holdings in Nebius Group by 33.4% during the third quarter. Fred Alger Management LLC now owns 10,132,279 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,137,551,000 after purchasing an additional 2,536,832 shares during the period. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd raised its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 12.4% in the second quarter. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd now owns 17,651,930 shares of the company’s stock valued at $976,681,000 after buying an additional 1,949,708 shares during the period. Clear Street Group Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Nebius Group during the 3rd quarter valued at $202,168,000. Ghisallo Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Nebius Group during the 3rd quarter valued at $180,084,000. Finally, BNP Paribas Financial Markets grew its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 1,679.9% during the 3rd quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets now owns 1,651,336 shares of the company’s stock worth $185,395,000 after acquiring an additional 1,558,557 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 21.90% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about Nebius Group

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

• Positive Sentiment: Nebius signed a five‑year agreement to provide Meta with $12B of dedicated AI compute capacity and an option for up to $15B more (totaling ~ $27B), a blockbuster commercial win that materially expands contracted demand and underpins Nebius’s growth story. Nebius signs AI capacity deal with Meta
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s strategic relationship and financing (including a disclosed ~$2B investment) remains a strong catalyst — validates Nebius’s tech roadmap (Vera Rubin deployments) and eases access to hardware and engineering support. QuiverQuant analysis of Meta deal and NVIDIA tie-up
• Positive Sentiment: Wall Street upgraded/raised targets: BWS Financial bumped its price target to $200 (buy) and Citi initiated coverage with a buy and $169 target — fresh analyst backing likely added momentum to the rally. Benzinga coverage of analyst moves
• Neutral Sentiment: Broad market tailwinds (equities up, oil and yields down) and heavy NBIS trading volume amplified the move, helping push the stock higher alongside sector peers. US Equity Indexes Rise After US Proposal
• Neutral Sentiment: Institutional and analyst coverage has increased (multiple price targets and buy ratings, median targets well above current levels), which supports liquidity and interest but also concentrates expectations. QuiverQuant institutional and price target summary
• Negative Sentiment: Valuation concerns: some DCF-based commentary argues the stock looks stretched after the rally, warning that the current price already prices in aggressive growth assumptions. That can raise downside risk if execution or demand slips. DCF model suggests Nebius is overvalued
• Negative Sentiment: Execution & capex risk remains: Nebius’s growth depends on large, capital‑intensive buildouts (management flagged CapEx as the key variable), so missed build schedules or higher-than-expected costs could hurt margins and cadence. Seeking Alpha: CapEx is the key variable

Nebius Group Stock Performance

NASDAQ:NBIS opened at $129.85 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89, a quick ratio of 6.57 and a current ratio of 3.08. Nebius Group N.V. has a 52-week low of $18.31 and a 52-week high of $141.10. The firm has a market cap of $32.70 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -88.94 and a beta of 4.02. The business’s fifty day moving average is $97.83 and its 200 day moving average is $98.89.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The company reported ($0.69) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.42) by ($0.27). Nebius Group had a negative return on equity of 11.70% and a net margin of 19.02%.The company had revenue of $227.70 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $246.05 million. Research analysts predict that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.1 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages recently weighed in on NBIS. Freedom Capital raised Nebius Group to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 3rd. Citizens Jmp assumed coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research report on Wednesday, November 19th. They set a “market outperform” rating and a $175.00 target price for the company. Morgan Stanley assumed coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research note on Thursday, January 15th. They issued an “equal weight” rating and a $126.00 target price for the company. BWS Financial boosted their price target on shares of Nebius Group from $130.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday. Finally, DA Davidson upped their price target on shares of Nebius Group from $150.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eight have issued a Buy rating, one has assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Nebius Group presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $157.80.

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.