Meta Platforms (Facebook) (META)

• Market cap: $1.73T
• 1 day: -1.62%
• 5 days: -5.87%
• 1 month: 10.88%
• 3 months: 21.39%
• 6 months: 27.73%
• Year to date: 14.07%
• 1 year: 46.05%
• 5 years: 225.22%
• 10 years: 767.01%
• Sector: Information Technology
• Industry: Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc.

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

Fund manager confidence

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

411% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 496 | Existing positions closed: 97

34% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 1,942 | Existing positions reduced: 1,449

21% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $51.7B | Put options by funds: $42.6B

4% more funds holding

Funds holding: 4,133 [Q3] → 4,318 (+185) [Q4]

2% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $964B [Q3] → $985B (+$21B) [Q4]

1% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 955 [Q3] → 950 (-5) [Q4]

1.0% less ownership

Funds ownership: 77.76% [Q3] → 76.76% (-1.0%) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $610 11% downside
• Avg. target: $760 11% upside
• High target: $935 37% upside

32 analyst ratings

• positive: 30 94%
• neutral: 2 6%
• negative: 0 0%

Tigress Financial Ivan Feinseth 77% 1-year accuracy 53 / 69 met price target	37% upside $935	Strong Buy Maintained	11 Feb 2025
UBS Lloyd Walmsley 100% 1-year accuracy 18 / 18 met price target	15% upside $786	Buy Maintained	30 Jan 2025
Citigroup Ronald Josey 83% 1-year accuracy 48 / 58 met price target	14% upside $780	Buy Maintained	30 Jan 2025
Oppenheimer Jason Helfstein 75% 1-year accuracy 42 / 56 met price target	17% upside $800	Outperform Maintained	30 Jan 2025
B of A Securities Justin Post 88% 1-year accuracy 15 / 17 met price target	12% upside $765	Buy Maintained	30 Jan 2025