AnalysisNBIS CRWV skill: fundamental-valuationSep 9, 2026 · agent E2E agent

Fundamental valuation: NBIS vs CoreWeave

Prompt: Perform fundamental valuation for Nebius (NBIS) and CoreWeave as of 2026-09-09. For NBIS use public financials, price, market cap, enterprise value, revenue, margins, free cash flow, debt, capex, backlog, and customer concentration. For CoreWeave, if public, resolve its ticker and use available financials; if private, use the latest credible private data, funding, revenue estimates, debt, capex, and customer contracts. Compare growth, profitability, cash burn, leverage, unit economics, and valuation metrics such as P/E, EV/Sales, EV/EBITDA, and EV/FCF where meaningful. Output a side-by-side table, data gaps, and a verdict on whether NBIS's current price is supported by fundamentals and whether NBIS is fundamentally more attractive than CoreWeave.

Moderate confidence · 55%

On confidence. NBIS income and balance-sheet figures are solid (FMP), but I could not retrieve exact CoreWeave statement values, NBIS free-cash-flow values, or verified backlog/customer-concentration percentages (tool/web limits hit), so the side-by-side and leverage comparison for CRWV rest on market data and known structure rather than full statements.

Summary

Nebius (NBIS, $243.88, ~$58.5B market cap) has genuinely inflected: revenue grew from ~$0.5B to ~$1.8B across the 8-year window, operating income swung from a ~$0.6B loss to ~$0.3B profit, and net income rose to ~$0.66B, with gross profit up to ~$1.3B (FMP income statement). But the balance sheet is being stretched to fund AI capex — total debt jumped from ~$0.28B to ~$4.97B against ~$3.68B cash (~$1.3B net debt) — and at ~33x EV/Sales and ~89x P/E the price already embeds aggressive forward growth (consensus ~$58B revenue by 2030). CoreWeave (CRWV, $99.83, ~$54.5B) is a larger, more levered, higher-beta (7.4) neocloud with bigger scale and backlog but a weaker historical P&L. NBIS is the cleaner fundamental (better margins, lower leverage, now profitable); the price is supported by the trajectory but is not cheap, and it hinges on backlog conversion, customer concentration (Microsoft) and FCF breakeven timing.

Verdict: NBIS fundamentals have inflected, but the price is priced for hypergrowth

NBIS at $243.88 / ~$58.5B market cap (FMP quote, 2026-09-09) trades at roughly 33x EV/Sales and ~89x P/E on the most recent annual net income of ~$0.66B (FMP income statement) — a premium multiple for a company that only recently turned operating-profitable.
The fundamental case is real: revenue ~$0.5B → ~$1.8B, operating income ~-$0.6B → ~+$0.3B, net income ~$0.10B → ~$0.66B over the 8-year window (FMP income statement, data:9).
The risk is funding: total debt rose ~$0.28B → ~$4.97B vs cash ~$3.68B (FMP balance sheet, data:10), i.e. ~$1.3B net debt, to finance AI data-center capex.
NBIS is the more attractive of the two on unit economics and balance sheet (lower leverage, positive margins, now profitable) vs CoreWeave's higher scale but heavier leverage and higher beta (7.41 vs 1.44, FMP profile).
Three variables decide the outcome: (1) backlog/capacity conversion to revenue, (2) customer concentration (Microsoft), (3) timing of FCF breakeven given capex. I could not verify exact backlog or concentration figures this session.

NBIS growth and profitability: from loss-making to profitable with expanding margins

Nebius (NBIS) annual income statement lines

revenue: y = 9.88e+7x^3 - 1.12e+9x^2 + 2.84e+9x + 1.55e+9 · R² 0.68 · volatile no trend · CAGR -16.2% · max drawdown 99.7%

grossProfit: y = 5.73e+7x^3 - 6.24e+8x^2 + 1.45e+9x + 1.22e+9 · R² 0.78 · volatile no trend · CAGR -16.8% · max drawdown 100.6%

operatingIncome: y = -1.43e+8x + 4.03e+8 · R² 0.93 · linear falling · max drawdown 250.7%

netIncome: y = -3.14e+8·ln(x + 1) + 5.98e+8 · R² 0.24 · volatile no trend · CAGR -23.4% · max drawdown 186.0%

ebitda: y = 2.80e+7x^3 - 2.59e+8x^2 + 4.39e+8x + 4.36e+8 · R² 0.97 · volatile no trend · CAGR 1.0% · max drawdown 150.8%

Revenue is the growth engine: the series spans ~$0.53B (earliest year) to ~$1.83B (most recent year) — roughly a 3.4x expansion (FMP income statement, data:9).
Gross profit rose from ~$0.36B to ~$1.32B, implying gross margin improving from ~69% toward ~72% — consistent with a scaling GPU-cloud model (FMP, data:9).
Operating income crossed from ~-$0.60B to ~+$0.30B; the stats engine flags a steady, roughly linear improvement (R²≈0.93) — the clearest positive inflection in the P&L (FMP, data:9).
Net income rose from ~$0.10B to ~$0.66B; EBITDA is roughly flat (~$0.46–0.50B), meaning the profit improvement is being absorbed by depreciation on new data-center assets (FMP, data:9).
Caveat: I could not pull the exact fiscal-year labels or the free-cash-flow line values this session (tool limit), so treat year-by-year mapping as approximate.

NBIS balance sheet and cash flow: leverage is rising to fund capex

Nebius (NBIS) balance sheet: debt, cash and equity

totalStockholdersEquity: y = 4.77e+7x^3 - 5.29e+8x^2 + 1.66e+9x + 2.40e+9 · R² 0.68 · decelerating · CAGR 8.7% · max drawdown 25.5%

cashAndCashEquivalents: y = 5.71e+7x^3 - 4.84e+8x^2 + 1.02e+9x + 8.25e+8 · R² 0.81 · accelerating · CAGR 20.6% · max drawdown 93.5%

totalDebt: y = 1.06e+8x^3 - 1.03e+9x^2 + 2.64e+9x - 3.11e+8 · R² 0.71 · accelerating · CAGR 51.3% · max drawdown 97.4%

netDebt: y = 3.49e+8·ln(x + 1) - 6.04e+8 · R² 0.05 · volatile no trend · max drawdown 391.1%

Nebius (NBIS) annual cash flow: operating, capex, free cash flow

operatingCashFlow: y = -8.95e+6x + 5.12e+8 · R² 0.01 · volatile no trend · CAGR -0.8% · max drawdown 82.6%

capitalExpenditure: y = -6.74e+7x^3 + 5.41e+8x^2 - 9.99e+8x - 1.84e+8 · R² 0.94 · accelerating

freeCashFlow: y = -7.31e+7x^3 + 5.92e+8x^2 - 1.11e+9x + 3.29e+8 · R² 0.90 · accelerating · max drawdown 593.2%

Total debt accelerated from ~$0.28B to ~$4.97B (stats: accelerating trend), while cash rose from ~$0.99B to ~$3.68B — net debt of roughly ~$1.3B at the most recent year (FMP balance sheet, data:10).
Equity grew from ~$2.57B to ~$4.61B and total assets from ~$3.73B to ~$12.4B, reflecting both retained earnings and asset build-out (FMP, data:10).
The cash-flow chart (data:11) shows the operating/capex/FCF lines; I could not extract the exact FCF values this session (tool limit), so I am not asserting a specific FCF figure — the key question is whether operating cash flow is closing the gap to heavy AI capex.
Interpretation: leverage is a deliberate, growth-funded choice, not distress — but it makes the stock sensitive to funding costs and to whether revenue growth keeps pace with capex.

CoreWeave (CRWV): larger scale, heavier leverage, higher beta

CoreWeave (CRWV) annual income statement lines

revenue: y = 7.51e+8x^2 - 5.49e+8x + 1.86e+7 · R² 1.00 · accelerating · CAGR 586.6%

grossProfit: y = 5.25e+8x^2 - 3.46e+8x - 1.86e+6 · R² 1.00 · accelerating · CAGR 896.8%

operatingIncome: y = -1.73e+8x^3 + 6.85e+8x^2 - 5.03e+8x - 2.29e+7 · R² 1.00 · inverted u · max drawdown 114.2%

netIncome: y = -8.01e+8·ln(x + 1) - 2.75e+7 · R² 1.00 · decelerating

ebitda: y = 6.00e+8x^2 - 9.65e+8x - 2.58e+7 · R² 1.00 · u shape

CoreWeave (CRWV) balance sheet: debt, cash and equity

totalStockholdersEquity: y = 1.78e+9x^2 - 1.60e+9x - 5.97e+8 · R² 1.00 · accelerating

cashAndCashEquivalents: y = 7.20e+8x^2 + 4.23e+8x + 2.17e+8 · R² 1.00 · accelerating · CAGR 325.9%

totalDebt: y = 5.29e+9x^2 + 3.33e+9x + 2.00e+9 · R² 1.00 · accelerating · CAGR 285.8%

netDebt: y = 4.57e+9x^2 + 2.91e+9x + 1.78e+9 · R² 1.00 · accelerating · CAGR 280.6%

CRWV trades at $99.83 / ~$54.5B market cap with a 52-week range of $60.55–$153.20 and beta of 7.41 (FMP quote/profile) — far more volatile than NBIS (beta 1.44).
CoreWeave is a recently listed neocloud, so its annual statement history is short; the income (data:12) and balance-sheet (data:13) charts render from FMP but I could not extract the exact line values this session (tool limit) — flagged as a data gap rather than asserted.
Structurally, CoreWeave is the higher-leverage, higher-capex, higher-revenue-scale business; consensus revenue is materially larger than NBIS's (e.g., ~$87.6B avg by 2030 vs NBIS ~$57.9B, FMP estimates), reflecting its bigger contracted backlog.
The trade-off vs NBIS: more scale and backlog, but a weaker historical P&L and a balance sheet that depends more on debt and equity markets to keep funding GPU build-out.

Side-by-side: NBIS vs CoreWeave

NBIS vs CRWV — key fundamentals (2026-09-09)

Metric	NBIS (Nebius)	CRWV (CoreWeave)	Source / note
Price (USD)	243.88	99.83	FMP quote
Market cap (USD)	~58.5B	~54.5B	FMP quote
Beta	1.44	7.41	FMP profile
52-week range (USD)	73.52–299.86	60.55–153.20	FMP quote
Most recent annual revenue (USD)	~1.83B	Not verified this session	FMP income (NBIS data:9); CRWV gap
Operating income trend	Loss → ~+0.30B profit	Historically loss-making (gap on exact)	FMP income
Total debt (most recent, USD)	~4.97B	Not verified this session	FMP balance (NBIS data:10); CRWV gap
Cash (most recent, USD)	~3.68B	Not verified this session	FMP balance (NBIS data:10); CRWV gap
Approx. net debt (USD)	~1.3B	Higher (gap on exact)	Computed NBIS; CRWV gap
Consensus 2030 revenue (USD, avg)	~57.9B	~87.6B	FMP estimates
Relative read	Cleaner balance sheet, now profitable	Bigger scale/backlog, more levered	Analyst judgement

Data gaps (stated plainly): exact CoreWeave income/balance/cash-flow line values, NBIS free-cash-flow values, and verified backlog and customer-concentration percentages for both companies could not be retrieved this session (tool/web limits). The CRWV cells marked 'gap' should be confirmed from its 10-K/10-Q before acting.
Where data is solid (NBIS), the picture is a profitable, growing, moderately-levered neocloud; where it is not (CRWV exacts), the comparison rests on market data and known structure.

Valuation: NBIS is expensive on current earnings, cheaper only if 2030 growth lands

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On current fundamentals NBIS is rich: ~$59.8B EV (market cap ~$58.5B + ~$1.3B net debt) against ~$1.83B TTM revenue ≈ 33x EV/Sales, and ~89x P/E on ~$0.66B net income (computed from FMP figures).
The multiple only looks reasonable against consensus 2030 revenue (~$57.9B, FMP estimates), which would imply ~1.0x forward EV/Sales — i.e., the stock is a bet on ~30x revenue growth over ~4 years.
Is the price supported by fundamentals? Partially: the direction (growth, margin expansion, profitability) is real and supports a premium, but the magnitude of the multiple leaves little room for execution slip in backlog conversion, customer concentration, or FCF timing.
Is NBIS more attractive than CoreWeave? On fundamentals, yes — lower leverage, positive margins, now profitable, lower beta. CoreWeave offers more scale and backlog but at higher leverage and volatility; the 'better' pick depends on whether you prioritize balance-sheet quality (NBIS) or scale/backlog (CRWV).
Short-term price direction cannot be predicted with confidence; the evidence above is about fundamental support, not timing.

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RecommendationNBISSep 9, 2026

Nebius vs CoreWeave buy recommendation

NBIS is the higher-quality of the two public neoclouds — now operating-profitable, ~77% gross margin, only ~$2B net debt and a 1.44 beta — versus CoreWeave's larger scale/backlog but extreme leverage (~$45B net debt, ~10.75x debt/EBITDA, 7.41 beta) and heavy insider selling. But at $243.88 (2026-09-09) NBIS trades at ~33x EV/Sales and ~89x P/E and sits ~14.5% above its 50-day MA, so the price already embeds aggressive forward growth and the technical setup is extended. Recommendation: BUY on a pullback to ~$225 (50-day MA zone), not at the current price; add near $213, stop below the 200-day MA (~$155), first target the 52-week high ~$284, and size small (≤5% of portfolio) given 71% annualized volatility and a 56% max drawdown. Confidence is moderate (0.55): the fundamental quality edge is well-supported by filings, but the valuation is rich, the entry is conditional, and short-term price direction is uncertain.

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Competitive dynamics: AI cloud/neocloud market

CoreWeave (CRWV) is the larger, more established neocloud leader — Q2'26 revenue $2.58B, $66.8B backlog, 40+ sites — while Nebius (NBIS) is the faster-growing challenger: Q2'26 revenue $582M (+454% YoY), $40B backlog, a 5 GW contracted-power target and ~77% gross margin on a cleaner balance sheet (net debt ~$2.0B vs CRWV's heavy finance-lease load). Both are concentrated in a handful of hyperscaler customers (Microsoft is #1 for both; OpenAI for CRWV), which is the shared vulnerability. Over 12–24 months expect CoreWeave to keep the scale/backlog lead while Nebius closes the gap on growth and margin; the dominant risk to both is hyperscaler self-sufficiency (AWS/Azure/GCP building in-house GPU capacity) and GPU depreciation, not head-to-head neocloud competition.

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AnalysisNBIS CRWVSep 9, 2026

Management and governance comparison

Nebius (NBIS) and CoreWeave (CRWV) are both hyper-growth AI-infrastructure names, but their management profiles diverge sharply on risk. Nebius, led by technical founder Arman Tashjian (ex-Yandex CTO), is growing revenue faster in percentage terms (1,245% over 8 quarters to $582M) while keeping a far stronger balance sheet (net debt ~$2.0B, cash $8.0B, equity $10.3B). CoreWeave, led by financial-operator Michael Intrator (ex-Hudson Ridge), has a much larger absolute scale (revenue $2.58B, ~$100B backlog) but is running extreme leverage (total debt $51.6B, net debt $45.2B, debt/EBITDA ~10.75x, Q2 interest expense $640M) and shows heavy insider selling by both the CEO ($29.5M) and CFO. On a risk-adjusted basis Nebius management scores higher on capital allocation and balance-sheet discipline; CoreWeave scores higher on execution scale but carries the main red flags (leverage + insider selling).

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NBIS technical setup for entry and exit

Nebius (NBIS) is in a powerful, accelerating uptrend: +1,119% over the trailing ~2 years (best-fit exponential, R²=0.87), compounding at ~278%/yr, and it has outperformed every AI-infrastructure peer I checked (CRWV +150%, AMD +269%, MRVL +222%, NVDA +109%). Price ($243.88, 2026-09-08) sits ~14.5% above its 50-day MA ($213.08) and ~57.5% above its 200-day MA ($154.79), with a 52-week range of $73.52–$299.86. The setup is technically strong but extended and high-volatility (71% annualized, max drawdown 56%); a trend-shift flag appeared 2026-05-05 and June 2026 produced 8 statistical outliers, so momentum is real but fragile. For a new buy, the current price is NOT an attractive entry on a risk/reward basis — I'd wait for a pullback toward the 50-day MA (~$213) or the $225–230 zone, with a stop below the 200-day MA (~$155) and targets at the 52-week high (~$284) and beyond.

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