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Jim Kisner

Water Tower Research · covers Communication Services, Technology

Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2025 Q4 – 2026 Q2 (3 quarters).

Limited coverage. Only 5 questions of coverage. Treat these numbers as directional — sample too small for reliable averages.
Questions
5on tracked calls
Challenge rate
40%2 of 5 questionsLimited sample
Companies
2questioned at least once
Reporting periods
3with questions

These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.

How to read these numbers

Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.

Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.

No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.

Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.

Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.

Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.

Questions asked

Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.

Showing 5 of 5 questions from 2 companies

NBISNebius Group N.V.4 questions · 3 reporting periods · 1 of 4 challenging
NBIS company page →

Calendar 2026 Q2

xAI has begun selling compute at premium prices. What does that say about market pricing for AI capacity? And are you seeing similar strength on new contracts and renewals? What does this mean for ...

PricingCompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Arkady Volozh said the AI cloud market is growing massively from hundreds of billions toward a trillion dollars a year, that hyperscalers cannot build all of it, and that new entrants validate rather than change the opportunity Nebius sees as an independent player.

Calendar 2026 Q1

What's driving the implied step down? Can you walk us through the adjusted EBITDA margin progression for the year?

ChallengingMarginGuidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Dado Alonso attributed the step-down to first-half investments landing before back-end-weighted capacity, a timing dynamic rather than structural.

On the $2 billion investment from NVIDIA and extended collaboration on inference and agentic software around Token Factory. What concrete deliverables should we expect

Capital AllocationInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Andrey Korolenko said the NVIDIA tie-up brings supply certainty on Rubin/Vera, early SKU support and 5 gigawatts of capacity by 2030.

Calendar 2025 Q4

What is the strategic rationale behind Tavily? How is this complementary to your existing offering?

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Roman Chernin framed Tavily as Nebius's first M&A deal, adding agentic search and developer adoption to strengthen the full-stack platform.

PATHUiPath Inc.1 question · 1 reporting period · 1 of 1 challenging
PATH company page →

Calendar 2026 Q1

has the Anthropic supply chain risk designation, have you seen any kind of ripples from that at all?

ChallengingSupply ChainCompetitive DynamicsM&ATranscript · FY2026 Q4 →
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Daniel said UiPath is model-agnostic with Anthropic optional, so zero impact, and it keeps eyeing vertical tuck-in acquisitions like WorkFusion.

Challenge rate by company

Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.

CompanyQuestionsChallenge rate
NBIS Nebius Group N.V.425%1 of 4 questions
PATH UiPath Inc.1—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
  • NBIS
    Nebius Group N.V. · 4 questions
    25%1 of 4 questions
  • PATH
    UiPath Inc. · 1 question
    —rate withheld: under 3 questions

Activity by reporting period

Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.

Questions by calendar reporting period
Calendar periodQuestionsChallenge rateCompanies
2025 Q410%none of 1 question1
2026 Q1367%2 of 3 questions2
2026 Q210%none of 1 question1
  1. 2025 Q41 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company
  2. 2026 Q13 questions · challenge rate 67% (2 of 3 questions) · 2 companies
  3. 2026 Q21 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company

Topics

Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.

  • Competitive Dynamics2
  • M&A2
  • Supply Chain1
  • Pricing1
  • Margin1
  • Guidance Reliability1
  • Capital Allocation1
  • Innovation & R&D1
  • Cloud & AI1