Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Stock Price Down 7.2% Following Analyst Downgrade

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) shares dropped 7.2% on Thursday after Piper Sandler lowered their price target on the stock from $237.00 to $185.00. Piper Sandler currently has a neutral rating on the stock. Nebius Group traded as low as $155.73 and last traded at $159.17. 25,665,218 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 42% from the average daily volume of 18,047,283 shares. The stock had previously closed at $171.57.

Other analysts have also issued reports about the company. Rosenblatt Securities started coverage on Nebius Group in a report on Thursday, October 8th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $304.00 price objective on the stock. Wall Street Zen upgraded Nebius Group from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Sunday, August 16th. BNP Paribas Exane raised shares of Nebius Group from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and lifted their price target for the company from $260.00 to $399.00 in a research note on Thursday, September 24th. Zacks Research raised shares of Nebius Group from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Monday. Finally, Northland Securities increased their price objective on shares of Nebius Group from $248.00 to $410.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, July 20th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twelve have given a Buy rating, four have issued a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $243.25.

Insider Transactions at Nebius Group

In other news, CEO Arkadiy Volozh sold 37,778 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, October 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $234.16, for a total transaction of $8,846,096.48. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 785,236 shares in the company, valued at $183,870,861.76. The trade was a 4.59% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, insider Andrey Korolenko sold 29,090 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, October 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $234.16, for a total value of $6,811,714.40. Following the completion of the sale, the insider owned 522,248 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $122,289,591.68. This trade represents a 5.28% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last quarter, insiders bought 595 shares of company stock valued at $100,030 and sold 158,490 shares valued at $38,111,200.

Nebius Group News Roundup

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

• Positive Sentiment: Nebius secured a $3.5 billion senior secured bridge facility from Citi. Proceeds are intended for data-center development, GPU purchases and general corporate purposes, giving the company additional resources to expand its NVIDIA-powered AI cloud capacity. Reuters article on Nebius financing
• Positive Sentiment: Nebius launched public, live spot pricing for GPU compute, improving customer visibility into costs and potentially making its platform more competitive for customers with flexible AI workloads. Its NVIDIA-related AI-agent and robotics collaborations also provide validation of its technology ecosystem. Zacks article on Nebius compute pricing
• Positive Sentiment: Director Arne Grimme bought additional NBIS shares in recent transactions, including roughly $24,855 on October 21. The purchase was made under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, so it is only a modest confidence signal. SEC insider purchase filing
• Neutral Sentiment: The neocloud sell-off remains concentrated in companies such as Nebius and CoreWeave rather than spreading broadly to stock or credit markets. That limits systemic-contagion concerns, but does not remove the sector’s valuation and execution risks. Yahoo Finance article on contained neocloud rout
• Negative Sentiment: The Citi facility intensified concerns that Nebius is borrowing heavily to build capacity. Investors are questioning leverage, borrowing costs, capital expenditures and the possibility of excess AI-compute supply across the neocloud sector. Invezz article on Nebius debt concerns
• Negative Sentiment: Credit-market stress at CoreWeave, including elevated bond yields and credit-default-swap spreads, is weighing on investor sentiment toward comparable AI infrastructure companies such as NBIS. 247WallSt article on neocloud credit concerns
• Negative Sentiment: Piper Sandler lowered its Nebius price target from $237 to $185 and assigned a neutral rating, reinforcing the market’s more cautious view of valuation and financing risk. Piper Sandler target reduction

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in NBIS. Situational Awareness LP purchased a new stake in shares of Nebius Group in the second quarter valued at about $1,232,895,000. Accel Leaders 4 Associates L.P. purchased a new stake in Nebius Group in the second quarter valued at $1,012,097,322. Jennison Associates LLC lifted its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 134.3% in the 2nd quarter. Jennison Associates LLC now owns 3,983,899 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,100,233,000 after purchasing an additional 2,283,676 shares during the last quarter. Accel Leaders 3 Associates L.P. acquired a new position in shares of Nebius Group in the 2nd quarter valued at $621,908,604. Finally, BlackRock Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Nebius Group by 16.0% during the 2nd quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 11,531,270 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,184,591,000 after purchasing an additional 1,593,684 shares during the period. 21.90% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Nebius Group Trading Down 7.2%

The firm has a market capitalization of $40.27 billion, a PE ratio of -5,303.90 and a beta of 4.18. The company has a current ratio of 4.03, a quick ratio of 4.03 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.82. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $221.10 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $208.87.

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, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.67) by $0.55. The firm had revenue of $582.30 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $567.91 million. Nebius Group had a net margin of 4.55% and a negative return on equity of 6.03%. Nebius Group’s revenue was up 454% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $2.38 EPS. Analysts expect that Nebius Group N.V. will post -3.48 EPS for the current fiscal year.

About Nebius Group

Nebius Group N.V. is a technology company focused on providing cloud infrastructure and services for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Through its Nebius AI division, the company offers access to high-performance computing, graphics processing units (GPUs), storage, networking, and related tools designed to help businesses and developers train, deploy, and operate AI models.

The company also operates or supports other technology businesses, including Toloka, an AI data and evaluation platform; TripleTen, an online education provider focused on technology careers; and Avride, a developer of autonomous driving and delivery technologies.