Professional Diversity Network (NASDAQ:IPDN – Get Free Report) and Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Professional Diversity Network and Nebius Group, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Professional Diversity Network | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Nebius Group | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3.00 |
Nebius Group has a consensus target price of $55.00, indicating a potential upside of 99.42%. Given Nebius Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nebius Group is more favorable than Professional Diversity Network.
Risk & Volatility
Insider & Institutional Ownership
27.8% of Professional Diversity Network shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.9% of Nebius Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of Professional Diversity Network shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Professional Diversity Network and Nebius Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Professional Diversity Network | -32.31% | -113.38% | -39.58% |
| Nebius Group | -4.76% | 7.18% | 4.00% |
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Professional Diversity Network and Nebius Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Professional Diversity Network | $7.01 million | 0.68 | -$4.31 million | ($2.00) | -1.24 |
| Nebius Group | $117.50 million | 55.27 | $221.50 million | ($0.57) | -48.39 |
Nebius Group has higher revenue and earnings than Professional Diversity Network. Nebius Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Professional Diversity Network, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Nebius Group beats Professional Diversity Network on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Professional Diversity Network
Professional Diversity Network, Inc. operates online professional networking communities with career resources in the United States. It operates through three segments: Professional Diversity Network (PDN Network), National Association of Professional Women (NAPW Network), and RemoteMore USA (RemoteMore). The company offers online professional job seeking communities that offers recruitment services, such as single and multiple job postings, recruitment media, talent recruitment communities, corporate memberships, hiring campaign marketing and advertising, e-newsletter marketing, and research and outreach services to various cultural groups and employers. It also provides consumer advertising and consumer marketing solutions through advertising and job postings on its websites; and contracted software development services. In addition, the company operates a women-only professional networking organization; and offers companies with talented engineers to provide solutions to their software needs. Professional Diversity Network, Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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.
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