Nebius Group N.V. Q4 FY2020 Earnings Call

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Overview

  • Yandex reported strong Q4 and full-year 2020 results despite pandemic challenges, driven by diversification across e-commerce, ride-hailing, media, logistics, and cloud.
  • Non-advertising businesses accounted for nearly half of 2020 total revenue (compared to over 90% from Search & Portal five years ago).
  • Management emphasized platform integration, growth in subscription and e-commerce, and expansion in delivery and logistics infrastructure.

Key Operational Highlights

Yandex.Plus Ecosystem

  • Subscribers reached 6.8 million at year-end 2020 and are now approaching 8 million (vs. 5.4 million at end of Q3 2020).
  • Cashback introduction improved trial-to-paid conversion and increased cross‑service usage.
  • Plus subscribers generate 25–30% higher GMV on Yandex.Market than non‑subscribers.

E-commerce (Yandex.Market, Lavka, Grocery via Eats)

  • Total e-commerce GMV tripled in 2020 to RUB 56 billion (up 127% YoY in Q4).
  • Yandex.Market rebranded from Beru; temporary slowdown in Q4 due to customer adjustment, but acceleration seen in early 2021.
  • Active buyers increased 2.4x YoY to over 6 million; SKUs grew 3x to 2 million.
  • On-demand delivery (15–30 minutes) rolled out for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod.

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Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Financial Results Call. I must advise you this conference is being recorded today, Tuesday, the 16th of February, 2021. We would now like to hand the call over to your first speaker today, Yulia Gerasimova, Investor Relations Director. Please go ahead. Yulia Gerasimova: Good afternoon, and good morning, everyone, and welcome to Yandex fourth quarter 2020 earnings call. You can find our earnings release and supplementary slides on our IR website. The key speakers on our call today are Tigran Khudaverdyan, our Deputy Chief Executive Officer; Daniil Shuleyko, our Chief Executive Officer of Yandex.Taxi; and Greg Abovsky, our Chief Operating and Chief Financial Officer. Yevgeny Senderov, Chief Financial Officer of Yandex.Taxi, will be available on the Q&A session. Now, I will quickly walk you through the Safe Harbor statement. The various remarks that we’ll make during the call regarding our financial performance and operations may be considered forward-looking and such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. For more information, please refer to the Risk Factors section of our most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. During the call, we'll be referring to certain non-GAAP financial measures. You can find a reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP measures in the earnings release we publishe

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