Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Stock Price Down 4.2% – Should You Sell?

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) shares fell 4.2% during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as low as $204.70 and last traded at $210.51. 10,486,042 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 36% from the average session volume of 16,329,256 shares. The stock had previously closed at $219.65.

Nebius Group News Roundup

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

• Positive Sentiment: Nebius announced a new infrastructure-partnership model that lets third-party data centers deploy its full-stack AI cloud platform, which could expand capacity, broaden global reach, and help Nebius meet demand that still exceeds supply. Nebius introduces business model to scale AI cloud globally through infrastructure partnerships
• Positive Sentiment: Reflection AI signed a more-than-$1 billion compute deal with Nebius, adding to the company’s backlog and reinforcing demand for Nebius’s GPU capacity over the next several years. AI startup Reflection signs over $1 billion computing deal with Nebius
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts and commentary remain constructive on Nebius’s long-term growth story, citing rapid revenue expansion, strong AI infrastructure demand, and room for more upside if the company keeps scaling capacity. Nebius: Meta Fears Create A Buying Opportunity
• Neutral Sentiment: Several recent articles argue Nebius is building toward an AI hyperscaler model with more capacity, platform features, and capital support, but these pieces are mostly long-term thesis updates rather than immediate stock-moving catalysts. Can Nebius’ Four-Pronged Strategy Create the Next AI Hyperscaler?
• Negative Sentiment: Shares have also been hurt by market concern that Meta could lease out spare compute capacity, potentially increasing competition and pressuring margins for neocloud providers like Nebius. Should Nebius and CoreWeave Investors Be Scared by Meta’s Latest Plans?
• Negative Sentiment: Broader high-growth tech selling and valuation anxiety have also weighed on the stock, with some traders taking profits after a strong run-up and the shares remaining highly volatile. Why Is Nebius Stock Falling on Monday?

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of research firms recently weighed in on NBIS. Morgan Stanley upped 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 note on Thursday, May 14th. DA Davidson downgraded shares of Nebius Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and lifted their price target for the stock from $200.00 to $250.00 in a research note on Monday, May 18th. Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of Nebius Group from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Saturday, May 16th. BNP Paribas Exane started coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research report on Tuesday, June 2nd. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $255.00 price objective on the stock. Finally, Weiss Ratings upgraded shares of Nebius Group from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “hold (c)” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 20th. Nine research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and six have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $203.25.

Nebius Group Stock Performance

The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $228.19 and a 200-day simple moving average of $151.38. The company has a market cap of $49.11 billion, a PE ratio of 62.61 and a beta of 4.10. The company has a quick ratio of 8.33, a current ratio of 8.33 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.81) by $0.58. The business had revenue of $399.00 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $375.13 million. Nebius Group had a negative return on equity of 9.11% and a net margin of 95.27%.Nebius Group’s revenue was up 684.0% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, research analysts forecast that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.91 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at Nebius Group

In other news, Director Elena Bunina sold 10,894 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $206.87, for a total value of $2,253,641.78. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 10,772 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,228,403.64. This represents a 50.28% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider Andrey Korolenko sold 500,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $203.24, for a total transaction of $101,620,000.00. Following the transaction, the insider owned 585,209 shares in the company, valued at approximately $118,937,877.16. This trade represents a 46.07% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold a total of 668,405 shares of company stock valued at $140,422,170 over the last 90 days.

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of NBIS. Confluence Investment Management LLC boosted its holdings in Nebius Group by 2.0% during the second quarter. Confluence Investment Management LLC now owns 2,475 shares of the company’s stock worth $684,000 after buying an additional 48 shares in the last quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management grew its position in Nebius Group by 2.7% during the first quarter. Empirical Financial Services LLC d.b.a. Empirical Wealth Management now owns 2,977 shares of the company’s stock worth $309,000 after buying an additional 79 shares during the period. Wealth Alliance LLC increased its holdings in Nebius Group by 1.6% in the first quarter. Wealth Alliance LLC now owns 5,008 shares of the company’s stock valued at $520,000 after buying an additional 80 shares in the last quarter. Aspen Grove Capital LLC increased its holdings in Nebius Group by 3.7% in the first quarter. Aspen Grove Capital LLC now owns 2,522 shares of the company’s stock valued at $262,000 after buying an additional 89 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Allied Private Wealth LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Nebius Group during the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $25,000. Hedge funds and other 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.