Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. META scored 71.4, NBIS scored 38.3 — META leads.
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Different reporting periods. META's fundamentals are as of June 2026, but NBIS's are as of December 2025 — a 6-month gap. Growth, margin and valuation figures below therefore describe different windows and aren't strictly like-for-like.
META
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Internet Content & Information · Quality-Growth
71.4
$718.67 · $1.8T
fundamentals as of
Score gap
33.1
META leads
NBIS
Nebius Group N.V.
Internet Content & Information · Quality-Growth
38.3
$221.07 · $60.1B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
Fastest growthNBIS+479.0%
Strongest balance sheetMETA0.43
Highest qualityMETA89 / 100
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
META
stronger →← stronger
NBIS
89
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
30
82
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
100
50
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
19
META is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
META
NBIS
$41.0bA
FCF
-$3.8bF
+27.7%A-
Rev
+479.0%A
0.43B+
D/E
0.99C+
27.1xC+
P/E
—
0.95B+
PEG
0.51A-
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
META
NBIS
152% above
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
—
~37%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
—
-67%
1-yr DCF upside
—
-60%
5-yr DCF upside
—
-48%
10-yr DCF upside
—
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
META
Why this score
Durable high returns
NBIS
Why this score
Buying back stock
Short track record
The companies
METAMeta Platforms, Inc.
Internet Content & Information · $718.67 · beta 1.19
Why now
Internet Content & Information · market cap $1.8T. 8% off the 52-week high of $779.82. Revenue growing +28% — in hypergrowth territory. PEG 0.95 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 58 sell-side analysts rate this a Strong Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $799.34 (implying +11% upside).
Moat
Net margin 30% sits well above the S&P median (~11%) — suggests structural pricing advantage or cost discipline competitors can't quickly close. ROE 26% — top-decile capital efficiency. Either pricing leverage, low capital intensity, or aggressive buybacks; the durability story depends on which. $1.8T market cap places it among the largest companies in the sector — distribution, R&D, and customer-acquisition costs amortize across a base peers can't replicate.
Risk
Value re-rating depends on a catalyst. Without one — analyst day, divestiture, margin recovery, capital return — the stock can stay cheap on these multiples for years.
NBISNebius Group N.V.
Internet Content & Information · $221.07 · beta 1.46
Why now
Internet Content & Information · market cap $60.1b. Down 26% from 52-week high of $299.86 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +479% — in hypergrowth territory. PEG 0.51 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 20 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $283.60 (implying +28% upside).
Moat
Net margin 16% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. $60.1b market cap gives the company enough scale to absorb fixed costs that subscale competitors can't, without yet being so large that growth has to come from acquisition.
Risk
Free cash flow is negative (-$3.8b) — capital raises or debt issuance likely required; dilution / leverage risk. Trailing P/E 172.7x prices in sustained high growth — any quarter that disappoints triggers sharp re-rating. Beta 1.46 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
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Where META and NBIS diverge
On the headline score the gap is 33.1 points in favor of META. They get there differently, though — each leads on a different pillar, so the better pick depends on which you weight.
QualityMETA 88.7 · NBIS 29.9META +58.8
ValueMETA 50.2 · NBIS 18.8META +31.4
GrowthMETA 81.8 · NBIS 100.0NBIS +18.2
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is META or NBIS the better stock?
META scores higher: META 71.4, NBIS 38.3 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do META and NBIS differ most?
The widest gap is quality, where META leads by 59 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. Neither name sweeps: they trade the lead across the three pillars, so the comparison is a trade-off rather than one being better on every measure.
How are META and NBIS scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.