Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS – Get Free Report) and Shopify (NASDAQ:SHOP – Get Free Report) are both large-cap technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and risk.
Profitability
This table compares Nebius Group and Shopify’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Nebius Group | 95.27% | -9.11% | -3.73% |
| Shopify | 10.77% | 12.07% | 10.37% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Nebius Group and Shopify”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Nebius Group | $529.80 million | 90.94 | $82.50 million | $3.10 | 61.42 |
| Shopify | $11.56 billion | 13.16 | $1.23 billion | $1.01 | 115.99 |
Shopify has higher revenue and earnings than Nebius Group. Nebius Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shopify, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Nebius Group and Shopify, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Nebius Group | 0 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2.88 |
| Shopify | 0 | 9 | 33 | 3 | 2.87 |
Nebius Group presently has a consensus price target of $222.15, indicating a potential upside of 16.67%. Shopify has a consensus price target of $157.69, indicating a potential upside of 34.61%. Given Shopify’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Shopify is more favorable than Nebius Group.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
21.9% of Nebius Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.3% of Shopify shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Volatility and Risk
Nebius Group has a beta of 4.1, suggesting that its stock price is 310% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shopify has a beta of 2.58, suggesting that its stock price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Shopify beats Nebius Group on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Shopify
Shopify Inc., a commerce company, provides a commerce platform and services in Canada, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Australia, China, and Latin America. The company’s platform enables merchants to displays, manages, markets, and sells its products through various sales channels, including web and mobile storefronts, physical retail locations, pop-up shops, social media storefronts, native mobile apps, buy buttons, and marketplaces; and enables to manage products and inventory, process orders and payments, fulfill and ship orders, new buyers and build customer relationships, source products, leverage analytics and reporting, manage cash, payments and transactions, and access financing. It also sells custom themes and apps, and registration of domain names; and merchant solutions, which include accepting payments, shipping, and securing working capital. The company was formerly known as Jaded Pixel Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Shopify Inc. in November 2011. Shopify Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.
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