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Earnings CallNBISAugust 26, 2026

Nebius - Earnings Call: Q2 FY '26

4 large deals had an average deal size >$1B

Overview

  • Increased from $12M in '26 to > $40M in Q3
  • For deals closed in Q2, payback period is 1 year 10 months
  • There are 4 large deals with an average deal size >$1B
  • 50-60% of capex self-financed such as Reflection and Cohere by prepayments
  • First asset-backed financing at attractive terms (SOFR + 2.50%) ~$775M secured in July
  • Nebius has equity investments in Clickhouse and Toloka
  • Token Factory
    • Nebius Token Factory is a managed AI inference and production platform that lets developers deploy, fine-tune, and scale open-source artificial intelligence models without managing underlying infrastructure
    • Inference workloads on Token Factory more than tripled in Q2, increasingly running on open models.
  • Energy and Bloom
    • In May, they announced a long-term partnership with Bloom to deploy behind-the-meter fuel cells this year.
  • Vera Rubin
    • They received their first NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and are using these early units to validate compute, networking, and orchestration together as a single system

Financials

  • Q2 revenue Up 454% YoY to $582M
  • Operating leverage inherent in the business: the AI cloud business delivered an adjusted EBITDA margin of 50% in the quarter.
  • $2.3 billion in positive operating cash flow
  • $8 billion in cash on hand

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