Meta Platforms (Facebook)
META
Market cap $1.27T

501.48 USD

-0.83

0.17%

At close Apr 17, 4:00 PM EDT

After hours

502.50

+1.02

0.20%

1 day

-0.17%

5 days

-6.35%

1 month

-17.10%

3 months

-18.16%

6 months

-13.08%

Year to date

-16.31%

1 year

1.48%

5 years

179.78%

10 years

520.80%

About: Meta is the largest social media company in the world, boasting close to 4 billion monthly active users worldwide. The firm's "Family of Apps," its core business, consists of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. End users can leverage these applications for a variety of different purposes, from keeping in touch with friends to following celebrities and running digital businesses for free. Meta packages customer data, gleaned from its application ecosystem and sells ads to digital advertisers. While the firm has been investing heavily in its Reality Labs business, it remains a very small part of Meta's overall sales.

Employees: 74,067

Communication Services Internet Content & Information

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Funds holding %

of 7,419 funds

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Analysts bullish %

of 32 analysts

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

466% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 572 | Existing positions closed: 101

35% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 2,014 | Existing positions reduced: 1,490

21% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $53.5B | Put options by funds: $44.2B

9% more funds holding

Funds holding: 4,145 [Q3] → 4,521 (+376) [Q4]

6% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $933B [Q3] → $990B (+$56.7B) [Q4]

4% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 960 [Q3] → 996 (+36) [Q4]

1.87% more ownership

Funds ownership: 75.22% [Q3] → 77.08% (+1.87%) [Q4]

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Research analyst outlook

32 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

Low target

$600

20%

upside

Avg. target

$716

43%

upside

High target

$935

86%

upside

32 analyst ratings

30 positive

94%

2 neutral

6%

0 negative

0%

Morgan Stanley Brian Nowak 53% 1-year accuracy 20 / 38 met price target	23%upside $615	Overweight Maintained	17 Apr 2025
Truist Securities Youssef Squali 25% 1-year accuracy 18 / 71 met price target	40%upside $700	Buy Maintained	17 Apr 2025
Cantor Fitzgerald Deepak Mathivanan 51% 1-year accuracy 30 / 59 met price target	24%upside $624	Overweight Maintained	16 Apr 2025
Wedbush Meta Marshall 47% 1-year accuracy 14 / 30 met price target	36%upside $680	Outperform Maintained	15 Apr 2025
Citigroup Ronald Josey 39% 1-year accuracy 24 / 62 met price target	31%upside $655	Buy Maintained	14 Apr 2025

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Financial journalist opinion

Based on 337 articles about META published over the past 30 days

NVDA, MSFT & META: Charting Mag 7's Fall from All-Time Highs

Microsoft (MSFT) has fallen more than 20% off its all-time high while Nvidia (NVDA) and Meta Platforms (META) are more than 30% of theirs. Jenny Horne turns to the latest news flow showing why pressure remains around the market leaders.

NVDA, MSFT & META: Charting Mag 7's Fall from All-Time Highs

Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant

With the first week of Meta's antitrust trial behind us, documents shared by the U.S Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offered more insight into Meta's internal struggles to keep Facebook relevant. In emails from 2022, Meta executives mulled different visions for Facebook's future to boost its success, acknowledging that its cultural relevance was decreasing.

Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant

The Motley Fool

Meta Stock Faces This Big Risk, Despite AI Ambitions

Meta Platforms (META -0.22%) recently introduced its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models based on the new Llama 4 foundation model, as the company continues to advance its AI initiatives. Llama has significantly enhanced user engagement and increased the time users spend on its social media platforms, contributing to Meta's substantial growth in recent quarters.

Meta Stock Faces This Big Risk, Despite AI Ambitions

The Motley Fool

Prediction: 1 Stock That Will Be Worth More Than Alphabet 10 Years From Now

Alphabet (GOOG -1.44%) (GOOGL -1.44%), the parent company of Google, is considered to be a sound long-term investment. The tech giant's stock has rallied more than 480% over the past 10 years as its advertising and cloud businesses has expanded.

Prediction: 1 Stock That Will Be Worth More Than Alphabet 10 Years From Now

The Motley Fool

Prediction: These 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Giants Will Outperform Nvidia Over the Next 5 Years

Nvidia (NVDA -3.01%) has been the star of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom over the last two-and-a-half years. Its GPUs are the cornerstone of every big data center project from the hyperscale cloud customers investing tens of billions of dollars in AI.

Prediction: These 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Giants Will Outperform Nvidia Over the Next 5 Years

Mark Zuckerberg's explosive ‘smoking gun' emails about Instagram, WhatsApp take center stage at FTC antitrust trial

Mark Zuckerberg's emails fretting about how to stop rivals like Instagram from catching Facebook are powerful evidence at the FTC's antitrust trial – and the case could ultimately hinge on whether a federal judge buys his attempts to explain them away, experts told The Post.

Mark Zuckerberg's explosive ‘smoking gun' emails about Instagram, WhatsApp take center stage at FTC antitrust trial

Italy agrees with US to oppose 'discriminatory' tech taxes

Italy and the United States issued a joint statement against "discriminatory" taxes on digital services on Friday, in a possible signal Rome is moving away from a levy that has irked Washington.

Italy agrees with US to oppose 'discriminatory' tech taxes

These 15 tech stocks could rocket up to 85% in a year — and analysts love them

Since President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on April 2, the uncertainty has unleashed a bloodbath on Wall Street: The S&P 500 SPX+0.13% is off 6.9% since that day, while the Roundhill Magnificent Seven exchange-traded fund MAGS-0.70% is down 10% over the same period.

These 15 tech stocks could rocket up to 85% in a year — and analysts love them

EU Delayed Punishing Apple, Meta Just Before Trade Talks Started

The bloc postponed penalties, temporarily avoiding a conflict with the Trump administration during a week in which it ramped up its push for a trade deal with the U.S.

EU Delayed Punishing Apple, Meta Just Before Trade Talks Started

Meta's ‘blockbuster' antitrust trial is ‘decades in the making'

Meta's ‘blockbuster' antitrust trial is ‘decades in the making'

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