Head to Head Review: Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) and Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS)

Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) and Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Wix.com and Nebius Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Wix.com	1	3	14	2	2.85
Nebius Group	0	0	1	0	3.00

Wix.com currently has a consensus target price of $239.33, indicating a potential upside of 10.29%. Nebius Group has a consensus target price of $51.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.76%. Given Nebius Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nebius Group is more favorable than Wix.com.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

81.5% of Wix.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.9% of Nebius Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of Wix.com shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Wix.com and Nebius Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Wix.com	$1.70 billion	6.98	$33.14 million	$1.60	135.63
Nebius Group	$8.92 billion	1.18	$221.50 million	($0.57)	-78.65

Nebius Group has higher revenue and earnings than Wix.com. Nebius Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wix.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Wix.com has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its share price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nebius Group has a beta of 2.57, meaning that its share price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Wix.com and Nebius Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Wix.com	5.47%	-52.68%	5.97%
Nebius Group	-4.76%	7.18%	4.00%

Summary

Wix.com beats Nebius Group on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Wix.com

Wix.com Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a cloud-based web development platform for registered users and creators worldwide. The company offers Wix Editor, a drag-and-drop visual development and website editing environment platform; and Wix ADI that enables users to have the freedom of customization that the classic editor offers. It also provides Wix Logo Maker that generates a logo, including through the use of artificial intelligence; Wix Answers to support users; and Payments by Wix, a payment platform, which helps its users receive payments from their customers through their Wix Website. In addition, the company offers various vertical-specific applications that business owners use to operate various aspects of their business online. Further, it provides a range of complementary services, including Wix App Market, a marketplace that offers its registered users various free and paid web applications for building, growing, and managing their businesses; Wix marketplace that brings users seeking help in creating and managing a website together with Web experts; and Wix owner App, a native mobile application, which enables users to manage their Websites and Wix operating systems. The company was formerly known as Wixpress Ltd. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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.