{"id":410839,"date":"2026-01-16T12:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410839\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:20:24","slug":"this-genius-ai-stock-has-far-more-potential-than-nvidia-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410839\/","title":{"rendered":"This Genius AI Stock Has Far More Potential Than Nvidia in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nebius expects huge growth in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/quote\/nasdaq\/nvda\/\" class=\"font-bold hover:underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NVDA<\/a> +2.06%) is the gold standard of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/a\/artificial-intelligence\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> investing. It has led the way since 2023, rising to become the world&#8217;s largest company. However, other, more explosive AI stocks can deliver outsize returns, and investors may want to consider them for smaller, riskier positions that can provide monster growth.<\/p>\n<p>One that I&#8217;m excited about is Nebius (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/quote\/nasdaq\/nbis\/\" class=\"font-bold hover:underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBIS<\/a> +1.87%). Nebius is growing at an unbelievable pace, and if it hits its growth projections by the end of the year, it could be a huge winner for investors and far outperform Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking to add a bit of rocket fuel to your portfolio, Nebius is a great place to look.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Investor watching a stock chart rise.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"880\" height=\"464\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto max-w-full rounded object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768566023_779_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Image source: Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>Nebius uses Nvidia&#8217;s products<\/p>\n<p>Nebius isn&#8217;t a competitor to Nvidia; it&#8217;s a client. Nebius purchases top-of-the-line Nvidia GPUs and places them in data centers that it owns and rents. It sets these up in computing clusters, allowing clients to rent them to perform various AI tasks. This is a similar business model to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/c\/cloud-computing\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cloud computing<\/a>, which has already proven itself to be a viable and massively profitable business model.<\/p>\n<p>Nebius operates a computing cluster in Europe and the U.S., although its past was based in Russia. Nebius was spun out of Yandex, essentially the Russian Google, after sanctions from the Ukraine war made its non-Russian assets undesirable. After the spinoff, clients had no problem using Nebius&#8217; computing infrastructure, and it is expecting unprecedented growth in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Nebius Group Stock Quote\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full flex-none object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/g.foolcdn.com\/image\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Fart%2Fcompanylogos%2Fmark%2FNBIS.png&amp;w=128&amp;op=resize\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Change<\/p>\n<p>(1.87%) $1.91<\/p>\n<p>Current Price<\/p>\n<p>$103.89<\/p>\n<p>Key Data Points<\/p>\n<p>Market Cap<\/p>\n<p>$26B<\/p>\n<p>Day&#8217;s Range<\/p>\n<p>$101.10 &#8211; $108.13<\/p>\n<p>52wk Range<\/p>\n<p>$18.31 &#8211; $141.10<\/p>\n<p>Volume<\/p>\n<p>46K<\/p>\n<p>Avg Vol<\/p>\n<p>17M<\/p>\n<p>Gross Margin<\/p>\n<p>-1312.43%<\/p>\n<p>At the end of Q3, Nebius has an annual run rate of $551 million. That&#8217;s not too shabby, but it&#8217;s nothing compared to where the company believes it will be by the end of 2026. Management expects to be in the $7 billion to $9 billion annual run rate range by the end of the year, which would represent monster growth. If Nebius achieves that growth, its stock will likely spike as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Nebius trades for an expensive 65 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/p\/price-to-sales-ratio-value-stocks\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">times sales<\/a>. However, that&#8217;s a poor metric to use since we know that Nebius&#8217; revenue is expected to explode throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\/companies\/NBIS\/chart\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img alt=\"NBIS PS Ratio Chart\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"473\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto max-w-full rounded object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:720px\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/468069688ed67787ba58979ec32515f0.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\/companies\/NBIS\/ps_ratio\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NBIS PS Ratio<\/a> data by <a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YCharts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we utilize forward sales, that decreases the stock valuation to 7.1 times sales, not a bad price to pay for a cloud computing company. If you move out to 2027 times sales, it drops to a mere 3.2 times sales.<\/p>\n<p>These are projections, and there&#8217;s no guarantee that Nebius will actually hit them. However, one thing that likely won&#8217;t change is the demand for its computing infrastructure. We&#8217;re nowhere near the amount of computing capacity the AI hyperscalers want, and growth is expected to persist through 2030.<\/p>\n<p>If Nebius continues to hit growth expectations, I have no doubt the stock will be a massive winner in 2026 and beyond, crushing Nvidia. But there&#8217;s one thing to watch out for.<\/p>\n<p>Profits aren&#8217;t on Nebius&#8217; mind<\/p>\n<p>Nebius is in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/types-of-stocks\/growth-stocks\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">growth-at-all-costs phase<\/a>. It sees a huge market, and it is looking to capture it while there is demand. As a result, it&#8217;s throwing profitability to the wind to go all-in on building out the AI computing infrastructure that&#8217;s in demand.<\/p>\n<p>This could pay off big-time for Nebius and its shareholders, or it could collapse the company. Nebius has borrowed a lot of money to finance its future, but it doesn&#8217;t produce any profits to pay off the debt right now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\/companies\/NBIS\/chart\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img alt=\"NBIS Total Long Term Debt (Quarterly) Chart\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"456\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto max-w-full rounded object-contain\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:720px\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8890b13ffdcd58447801498ae6df30dd.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\/companies\/NBIS\/total_long_term_debt\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NBIS Total Long Term Debt (Quarterly)<\/a> data by <a href=\"https:\/\/ycharts.com\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YCharts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That could all flip once the company has built out the computing capacity it wants and is getting massive annual cash flows from its computing systems. Time will tell if this ends up being a working strategy, but if it works out, Nebius will surpass Nvidia&#8217;s stock performance alongside the broader market. If something goes wrong in its strategy, Nebius stock could be in trouble. This is a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/r\/risk-tolerance\/\" class=\"text-cyan-900 hover:text-cyan-800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> high-risk, high-reward play<\/a>, and investors should position their portfolio sizing accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nebius expects huge growth in 2026. 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