Head to Head Survey: Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) and Sound Group (NASDAQ:SOGP)

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nebius Group	-4.76%	7.18%	4.00%
Sound Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Nebius Group and Sound Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nebius Group	$8.92 billion	0.84	$221.50 million	($0.57)	-36.28
Sound Group	$291.80 million	0.03	-$17.84 million	$0.99	1.80

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

21.9% of Nebius Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.6% of Sound Group shares are held by institutional investors. 25.2% of Sound Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk & Volatility

Nebius Group has a beta of 2.68, indicating that its stock price is 168% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sound Group has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Nebius Group beats Sound Group on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Sound Group

Sound Group Inc. operates as an audio-centric social and entertainment company. It focuses on building audio platform to connect and communicate. The company, through its product portfolio and in-house technologies, caters to user interest in audio entertainment and social networking. The company was formerly known as LIZHI INC. and changed its name to Sound Group Inc. in January 2024. Sound Group Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Singapore.