Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Stock Price Down 3.2% – Here’s Why

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS)’s stock price traded down 3.2% during mid-day trading on Monday . The company traded as low as $263.82 and last traded at $268.85. 19,600,462 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 10% from the average daily volume of 17,860,941 shares. The stock had previously closed at $277.68.

Key Nebius Group News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Nebius’ latest quarterly results provided a fundamental lift: revenue reached $582.3 million, up 454% year over year and above expectations, while its adjusted loss of $0.12 per share was materially better than the $0.67 consensus estimate. Analysts continue to point to strong customer commitments, rising AI-compute pricing and backlog-supported capacity expansion.
• Positive Sentiment: DA Davidson reportedly restored a previously reduced price target after approval of a New Jersey data center removed a key capacity and execution concern. Other analysts have also maintained bullish views, with some targets significantly above current trading levels. DA Davidson Reverses Course on Nebius Target Cut
• Positive Sentiment: Reports that Soros Fund Management included Nebius in its second-quarter AI-infrastructure investments may support sentiment by signaling institutional interest in the sector. Soros AI Infrastructure Investments
• Neutral Sentiment: Two directors sold shares under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plans. Charles E. Ryan sold 50,000 shares for about $13.3 million, reducing his stake 15.5%, while John Wilson Iv Boynton sold 5,296 shares for approximately $1.4 million, reducing his position 1.26%. Both retained substantial holdings, making the sales a limited but watchable signal. Nebius Director Insider Selling
• Negative Sentiment: NBIS declined alongside other “neocloud” operators as a new long-term Treasury yield high increased pressure on richly valued growth stocks. Investors also questioned whether AI revenue growth will justify the industry’s substantial capital requirements. Neocloud Stocks Sell Off
• Negative Sentiment: Valuation remains the principal risk. With a market capitalization near $63 billion, continuing projected losses and a very high sales multiple, the stock could be vulnerable to slower growth, weaker pricing, construction delays, dilution or increased competition from new AI data-center providers.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Citizens Jmp upped their price target 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. Freedom Capital raised Nebius Group from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Monday, July 20th. Robert W. Baird lifted their price objective on Nebius Group from $250.00 to $340.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 13th. DA Davidson restated a “neutral” rating and issued a $175.00 target price on shares of Nebius Group in a research note on Thursday, August 13th. Finally, Zacks Research lowered Nebius Group from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, July 31st. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have issued a Buy rating and seven have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Nebius Group presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $226.00.

Nebius Group Stock Down 7.6%

The firm has a market cap of $62.86 billion, a P/E ratio of -8,278.24 and a beta of 4.23. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $224.11 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $170.92. The company has a current ratio of 4.03, a quick ratio of 4.03 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.82.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 13th. The company reported ($0.12) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.67) by $0.55. Nebius Group had a net margin of 4.55% and a negative return on equity of 6.03%. The firm had revenue of $582.30 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $567.91 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $2.38 earnings per share. Nebius Group’s revenue for the quarter was up 454% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that Nebius Group N.V. will post -3.91 EPS for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Nebius Group

In other Nebius Group news, CRO Marc Boroditsky sold 10,776 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $276.20, for a total transaction of $2,976,331.20. Following the transaction, the executive owned 26,886 shares in the company, valued at $7,425,913.20. This trade represents a 28.61% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CEO Arkadiy Volozh sold 46,627 shares of Nebius Group stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, July 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $235.45, for a total transaction of $10,978,327.15. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 821,662 shares in the company, valued at approximately $193,460,317.90. This represents a 5.37% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold a total of 186,506 shares of company stock worth $46,264,387 in the last 90 days.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Allied Private Wealth LLC bought a new stake in Nebius Group during the second quarter valued at about $25,000. Parkside Financial Bank & Trust bought a new position in shares of Nebius Group in the fourth quarter worth about $25,000. Root Financial Partners LLC acquired a new position in shares of Nebius Group during the 4th quarter worth about $26,000. SHP Wealth Management acquired a new position in shares of Nebius Group during the 4th quarter worth about $26,000. Finally, Sound Income Strategies LLC boosted its stake in Nebius Group by 62.5% during the 1st quarter. Sound Income Strategies LLC now owns 260 shares of the company’s stock valued at $27,000 after purchasing an additional 100 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 21.90% of the company’s stock.

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.