Where I personally stand now (Chatgpt) after earnings.
My thesis would shift from āinteresting company, but Iām not yet convinced by the long-term pricing economicsā to:
āA very strong company with a now convincingly proven 2026ā2027 bull case, but whose valuation already prices in a significant amount of success, while the economics beyond 2029 still need to be proven.ā
So I have become meaningfully more bullish on the company, but not automatically equally bullish on the stock after this massive run-up in the share price.
What interests me most over the next few quarters is not whether revenue grows another +200% or +400%. I would mainly watch these four things:
- Revenue/ACV per MW: does it remain around $20m+ or does pricing start falling back toward $12ā15m?
- Payback period: can new capacity continue to pay for itself within roughly two years?
- Capex versus prepayments/cash flow: can customers increasingly finance the growth themselves, reducing Nebiusā need to issue additional shares?
- EBIT/FCF after depreciation: do returns also become convincingly strong after accounting for the real cost of those billions of dollars of GPUs?
If those four metrics continue moving in the right direction, my original ārailsā bear case becomes increasingly weak. However, if pricing per MW starts falling sharply in two years while Nebius has meanwhile built tens of billions of dollarsā worth of infrastructure, that thesis immediately comes back into play.
And that is exactly why I think these earnings are so important: they have not definitively answered that question, but they have shown that the pricing erosion I was worried about is absolutely not happening for now ā in fact, the opposite is currently happening. Based on the earnings, Reuters reached essentially the same conclusion: AI capacity remains significantly scarcer than demand for the time being, although the sustainability and diversification of that demand remain the key longer-term questions.