Arkady Volozh, CEO of Nebius and then CEO of Yandex, speaks at the Artificial Intelligence Journey event in Moscow on November 9, 2019.
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Nevius Shares fell 16% on Thursday after the largest publicly traded neocloud company reported disappointing full-year earnings guidance.
Here is the company’s performance compared to the LSEG consensus:
Earnings per share: Adjusted 31 cents, expected 69 cents per share Lost earnings: $980.8 million, expected $907.5 million
Sales rose 571% in the quarter, according to the statement. The company reported a net loss of $37.5 million, or a loss of 13 cents per share. This compared to a loss of $119.6 million, or 50 cents per share, in the year-ago period.
The stock price movement also comes amid resignations. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has made scathing revelations about multiple extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy.
Nvidia, which has developed the neocloud market by investing in these companies and backstopping some projects, owned about $329 million in Nebius stock at the end of June, according to filings.
Chief Executive Officer Arkady Volosh said in a letter to shareholders that he expects fiscal 2026 sales to be at the low end of the company’s $3 billion to $3.4 billion range. Analysts polled by LSEG had expected $3.37 billion.
Nevius also shared its initial outlook for 2027, expecting revenue to be between $12 billion and $13 billion, which he said “reflects our conservative approach to our pace of expansion.” The consensus for LSEG was $11.98 billion.
The company expects capital spending to be $27 billion in fiscal 2026, higher than its previous outlook for capital spending of $20 billion to $25 billion and FactSet’s forecast of $23.85 billion.
Nebius’ fiscal 2027 capital spending forecast was $40 billion to $45 billion, well above FactSet’s forecast of $28.77 billion.
Nevius stock price chart.
Nebius’ results come after fellow Neocloud companies CoreWeave and IREN reported better-than-expected financials in their earnings calls over the past week. This provided a boost to the companies’ stock prices, which had plummeted in recent weeks due to concerns about the sustainability of artificial intelligence development.
Neo-cloud companies posted strong gains on Wednesday, with Coreweave surging nearly 25%, Nebius up 15%, Applied Digital up more than 7% and IREN up nearly 6%.
Stocks fell in premarket Thursday following the Nebius Q3 report.
last week, core weave Bond yields soared above 16%. Coreweave told analysts on Tuesday’s earnings call that it expects to keep parent-level debt financing to less than $5 billion through 2027. Nevius announced that it raised $5.75 billion in debt financing during the quarter.
“The capital markets have been volatile lately,” CEO Arkady Volosh said on a conference call with analysts. “Two questions are being asked across our industry: How quickly can we build AI, and who will pay for it? These are important questions. My philosophy is simple: The demand for AI is real and substantial. Building capacity, financing, and everything else are just challenges. Challenges can be difficult, but they can all be solved.”
The political landscape creates an even more volatile situation as Nebius competes with rivals to open new data centers. Last week, U.S. voters supported dozens of ballot initiatives restricting the development of such facilities, while Democrats won overwhelming victories in both houses of Congress.
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