Colin Tedards
Founder of The Investor Channel & Equity Empire
Nebius's recently signed higher-margin deals are predominantly with pre-revenue neolabs, making it aggressive to project a few small, short-term contracts' economics across all available capacity for years. Short-term economics are very attractive now, and Nebius management has better insight into demand, but assuming all these customers renew at similar or better terms indefinitely seems unrealistic. x.com x.com x.comÂ
Nebius can fall with neocloud peers because the market prices sector risk rather than each company's quality. Nebius and SPCX are better companies than 99% of the others, yet Nebius would not be immune to a WOLF or CoreWeave default; some weaker names may never recover. x.comÂ
Nebius's current margins leave virtually no valuation support for its shares. It should do well over the medium term, but remains a high-quality speculative story with massive execution risk. x.comÂ
Nebius insiders are selling while promoting the company, and their actions matter more than their words. The CEO says Nebius could sell its entire 2027 capacity today while he and directors keep selling shares, the same pattern as Micron's CEO touting endless memory demand while selling stock and Michael Saylor calling for $1M bitcoin after selling 5,000 BTC. x.comÂ
Nebius looks like a clear stock promotion rather than a viable for-profit business, much like Oklo. A quoted skeptic questions valuing Nebius on EBITDA when everything hangs on debt and its largest asset, GPUs, is short-lived. Bulls hold their view, and reality will come for them in due time. x.comÂ
Nebius's revenue growth has sharply outpaced its stock, compressing its forward valuation to the lowest since its IPO. Quarterly revenue rose from $146M to $582M over a year while the stock gained about 50%; forward EV/revenue fell from 24x to 6.5x. x.comÂ
Heavy AI-related borrowing with little to show for it is pressuring Oracle, IREN and Nebius shares. These stocks are beginning to trend lower. x.comÂ
Nebius's proposed $3.75B convertible notes offering is a negative for shareholders. Per Trade The News, Nebius announced a proposed private offering of $3.75B of convertible senior notes. x.com x.comÂ
Nebius looks preferable to IREN because its dilution and financing costs are more manageable and it alone has positive retained earnings in this comparison. Nebius's share count rose 18% year over year against IREN's 51%, the highest in the table and, in this view, not put to good use. Nebius's positive earnings include a subsidiary valuation gain despite an operating loss in H1. x.comÂ
SpaceX's planned tenfold neocloud expansion and tightening financing could pressure Nebius. Musk says debt markets have nearly shut for companies without substantial non-AI-data-center revenue, implying consolidation among the 200-plus neoclouds. Nebius looks less appealing than SpaceX, and picking a battle with Elon is not attractive. x.com x.comÂ