Critical Analysis: Nebius Group (NBIS) & Its Competitors

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) is one of 112 public companies in the “Computer programming, data processing, & other computer related” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Nebius Group to related businesses based on the strength of its earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends and risk.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

21.9% of Nebius Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.6% of shares of all “Computer programming, data processing, & other computer related” companies are owned by institutional investors. 17.8% of shares of all “Computer programming, data processing, & other computer related” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Nebius Group and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nebius Group	0	0	0	0	N/A
Nebius Group Competitors	909	4684	10543	305	2.62

As a group, “Computer programming, data processing, & other computer related” companies have a potential upside of 7.70%. Given Nebius Group’s competitors higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nebius Group has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares Nebius Group and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nebius Group	-2.08%	9.52%	4.60%
Nebius Group Competitors	-13.35%	-23.26%	-3.82%

Risk & Volatility

Nebius Group has a beta of 2.63, indicating that its share price is 163% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nebius Group’s competitors have a beta of 1.30, indicating that their average share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Nebius Group and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nebius Group	$8.92 billion	$221.50 million	-33.23
Nebius Group Competitors	$11.00 billion	$1.92 billion	-37,963.50

Nebius Group’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Nebius Group. Nebius Group is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

About Nebius Group

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. It also offers Avride, an autonomous driving solution which targets ride-hailing, logistics, e-commerce, and food/grocery delivery as application domains, as well as focuses on autonomous vehicles and delivery robots; and TripleTen, an EdTech service that prepares specialists for STEM roles, and equipping them with essential technology skills. The company was formerly known as Yandex N.V. and changed its name to Nebius Group N.V. in August 2024. Nebius Group N.V. was founded in 1989 and is based in Schiphol, the Netherlands.