Updated 6 August 2026. Nebius Group (NASDAQ: NBIS) closed 5 August at $218.99, down 2.99% on the day, and traded at $215.06 in after-hours dealing (7:59 p.m. ET quote, per StockAnalysis). Market capitalisation is about $56.1 billion; the 52-week range runs $53.54 to $299.86.
Verdict: Nvidia’s Schedule 13G puts its beneficial ownership at 9.3% of Nebius’s Class A shares — and locks it from exercising or selling until 11 September. With more than $40 billion of contracted backlog and Q2 results due 12 August, the question is no longer whether Nebius can sign deals. It is whether contracts convert into recognised revenue.
What Nvidia’s 13G Actually Says
Nvidia disclosed beneficial ownership of 22,256,412 Nebius Class A ordinary shares — 9.3% of that class — in a Schedule 13G that surfaced on Monday 21 July 2026. The composition matters more than the headline percentage.
Only 1,190,476 of those shares are held outright. The other 21,065,936 are issuable on exercise of a pre-funded Class A ordinary share purchase warrant acquired on 11 March 2026. And Nvidia is contractually barred from exercising the warrants or selling the underlying shares before 11 September 2026.
Two things follow. First, this is not a new investment: the filing updates Nvidia’s position under the $2 billion financing arrangement already disclosed earlier this year, rather than reporting fresh buying. Anyone reading the 13G as “Nvidia just bought 9.3% of Nebius” has the story wrong. Second, a 13G is filed by passive holders — it is not the schedule an activist or strategic acquirer uses.
What it does establish is alignment. Nebius shares rose roughly 2.5% in extended trading on the disclosure after closing the regular session up 2.8%, which is a modest reaction for a headline of that size — consistent with a market that already knew about the $2 billion arrangement and was being told the mechanics, not the news.
Key Facts
- Price: $218.99 close on 5 August 2026 (−2.99%); $215.06 after hours at 7:59 p.m. ET.
- Nvidia stake: 22,256,412 Class A shares, 9.3% of the class — 1,190,476 held plus 21,065,936 via a pre-funded warrant acquired 11 March 2026.
- Lock: Nvidia cannot exercise the warrant or sell the underlying shares before 11 September 2026.
- Backlog: more than $40 billion of contracted revenue from investment-grade customers, including Microsoft and Meta.
- ARR target: management is guiding to $7–9 billion of annualised recurring revenue for 2026, with more than half of that capacity already contracted.
- Hardware: first Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 rack validated at Mäntsälä, Finland on 23 July — 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs with Nvidia Spectrum-6 switching.
- Next catalyst: Q2 2026 results on 12 August 2026.
- Street view: Buy consensus across 18 analysts, average target $255.44, range $120 to $410.
The $40 Billion Question Is a Conversion Question
Nebius has moved faster than almost anyone in the neocloud category on the metric that is easiest to announce: contracted backlog. More than $40 billion of it now sits on the books, sourced from investment-grade counterparties, with Microsoft and Meta named among them. Management’s 2026 ARR target of $7–9 billion is underpinned by capacity that is already more than half contracted.
That is the bull case in one paragraph, and it is a genuinely strong one — creditworthy customers signing multi-year commitments is precisely what separates a durable infrastructure business from a GPU rental desk exposed to spot pricing.
It is also the whole risk. A backlog is a promise to pay for capacity that must first be built, powered, cooled and accepted. The distance between $40 billion of signed contracts and a quarterly revenue line is measured in data-centre construction schedules, grid connections, GPU delivery dates and customer acceptance milestones. Every neocloud carries that gap; the ones that get repriced are the ones where it widens.
This is exactly why the 12 August print matters more than the usual quarter. Investors are not looking for a beat on a small revenue base. They are looking for evidence of the conversion rate — how much of the order book turned into recognised revenue this quarter, and what that implies for the $7–9 billion ARR exit target.
Vera Rubin in Finland: Being First Has a Price
On 23 July, Nebius completed and tested its first Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 rack at its Mäntsälä data centre in Finland — 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs alongside newly installed Nvidia Spectrum-6 switches, one of the earliest deployments anywhere of Nvidia’s next-generation platform.
Coming two days after the Nvidia stake disclosure, the timing was not subtle. Early access to Nvidia’s newest silicon is the clearest commercial expression of what a 9.3% aligned position buys: allocation. In a market where the binding constraint has been getting chips at all, being at the front of the queue for Rubin is a real advantage over neoclouds waiting in line.
The counterweight is capital intensity. Deploying next-generation racks first means absorbing next-generation capex first, and the financing structures neoclouds use to fund it — vendor arrangements, warrants, debt against contracted revenue — are the part of the model that has yet to be tested through a downturn. The same read-through runs across the peer group: IREN’s bull and bear cases hinge on the same build-versus-fund tension.
Demand, at least, is not in doubt on the supplier side. AMD’s most recent quarter showed data-center revenue more than doubling year over year — and the stock still fell almost 9% on the print. That is the tape Nebius reports into on 12 August: one where the AI build-out is unambiguously real and the market is nonetheless unwilling to pay up for confirmation of it.
Bull, Base and Bear Cases for NBIS
The levels below are anchored to published analyst targets from an 18-analyst survey and are shown against the 5 August close of $218.99. They are scenario markers, not forecasts.
| Case | Level | vs $218.99 | What has to be true |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear | $120 | −45.2% | Street low. Backlog converts slower than guided, ARR lands below the $7bn floor, and the market reprices contracted revenue at a discount to signed value. Still roughly double the 52-week low of $53.54. |
| Fair-value marker | $224 | +2.3% | Piper Sandler (James Fish) initiated coverage here on 3 August with a Hold — an explicit call that the shares are priced about right today. |
| Base | $255.44 | +16.6% | 18-analyst average, Buy consensus. Robert W. Baird (Robert Oliver) initiated at $250 on 21 July; Citi (Tyler Radke) trimmed to $278 from $287 on 5 August while keeping a Buy; BofA (Tal Liani) reiterated $280 on 20 July. |
| Bull | $410 | +87.2% | Street high. Requires the top of the $7–9bn ARR range, clean conversion of the $40bn backlog, and the market treating early Rubin allocation as a durable competitive moat rather than a one-cycle advantage. |
The shape of that distribution is the story. A $120-to-$410 range on an 18-analyst panel is not a rounding disagreement about next quarter’s revenue — the low target implies less than half of today’s price and the high implies nearly double. That is what happens when a valuation rests on a conversion rate nobody has observed yet. The near-term direction of travel is mildly negative: Citi cut its target the day before this piece, and the most recent initiation came in at Hold.
For the standing longer-horizon framework on the name, see our Nebius price prediction scenarios, which works the same question over a multi-year window rather than into a single print.
What to Watch on 12 August
Four things, in order of how much they should move the stock:
- Revenue conversion. Recognised revenue against the backlog, and any disclosure of how much capacity moved into service during the quarter.
- The ARR track. Whether management holds, narrows or moves the $7–9 billion 2026 target. A narrowing toward the top is the bull outcome; a reaffirmation without detail is the ambiguous one.
- Capex and funding. What the Rubin deployment costs, and how it is being financed. This is where the neocloud model is genuinely differentiated between operators.
- The 11 September date. Nvidia’s lock-up on the warrant shares expires just under a month after the print. Nothing obliges Nvidia to do anything on that date, but it is a known supply question the market will start pricing.
Quick Take
Nvidia holds 9.3% of Nebius’s Class A shares, almost all of it through a warrant it cannot exercise or sell before 11 September — alignment, not an exit. The backlog is above $40 billion with Microsoft and Meta named among the counterparties, and the first Vera Rubin NVL72 rack is live in Finland. Everything now turns on conversion: the 12 August print is the first hard read on how fast $40 billion of contracts becomes revenue. The Street’s $120-to-$410 target range is an honest admission that nobody yet knows.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much of Nebius does Nvidia own?
Nvidia’s Schedule 13G reports beneficial ownership of 22,256,412 Class A ordinary shares, or 9.3% of that class. Of those, 1,190,476 are held outright and 21,065,936 are issuable on a pre-funded warrant acquired on 11 March 2026.
Can Nvidia sell its Nebius stake?
Not yet. Nvidia is barred from exercising the warrant or selling the underlying shares before 11 September 2026.
Did Nvidia just buy a new stake in Nebius?
No. The filing updates Nvidia’s ownership under the $2 billion investment already disclosed earlier in 2026; it does not report a fresh purchase.
When does Nebius report Q2 2026 earnings?
On 12 August 2026.
How big is Nebius’s backlog?
More than $40 billion of contracted revenue from investment-grade customers, with Microsoft and Meta among those named. Management targets $7–9 billion of ARR for 2026, with over half of that capacity contracted.
What is the NBIS price target?
The consensus across 18 analysts is Buy with an average target of $255.44, a low of $120 and a high of $410. Citi cut to $278 from $287 on 5 August, Piper Sandler initiated at $224 with a Hold on 3 August, Baird initiated at $250 on 21 July and BofA reiterated $280 on 20 July.
What is the Vera Rubin NVL72 and why does it matter for Nebius?
It is Nvidia’s next-generation rack-scale AI platform. Nebius validated its first one at Mäntsälä, Finland on 23 July, with 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs plus Spectrum-6 switching — one of the earliest deployments anywhere, and evidence of the allocation priority that comes with Nvidia’s investment.
What is the biggest risk to the Nebius bull case?
Conversion. Contracted backlog is not revenue, and the gap between the two is set by construction schedules, power, GPU deliveries and customer acceptance. If conversion runs slower than the ARR guidance implies, the market will discount the backlog rather than take it at face value.
This article is analysis and information, not investment advice. The share price quoted is the 5 August 2026 close of $218.99 and the 7:59 p.m. ET after-hours quote of $215.06, and moves continuously. Ownership figures are as reported in Nvidia’s Schedule 13G on Nebius Group; analyst targets and consensus are as published by the named firms on the dates indicated, are not forecasts, and are revised frequently. Do your own research before trading around an earnings event.
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