Meta Platforms (Facebook) (META)

• Market cap: $1.4T
• 1 day: 0.85%
• 5 days: 4.90%
• 1 month: -3.80%
• 3 months: -18.04%
• 6 months: -6.55%
• Year to date: -7.48%
• 1 year: 28.16%
• 5 years: 185.51%
• 10 years: 589.00%
• Sector: Communication Services
• Industry: Internet Content & Information

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 disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

467% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 573 | Existing positions closed: 101

35% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 2,013 | Existing positions reduced: 1,493

21% more call options, than puts

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

9% more funds holding

Funds holding: 4,146 [Q3] → 4,525 (+379) [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] → 997 (+37) [Q4]

1.87% more ownership

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

Research analyst outlook

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

• Low target: $525 5% downside
• Avg. target: $703 27% upside
• High target: $935 69% upside

33 analyst ratings

• positive: 31 94%
• neutral: 2 6%
• negative: 0 0%

Loop Capital Rob Sanderson 63% 1-year accuracy 35 / 56 met price target	25% upside $695	Buy Maintained	28 Apr 2025
Stifel Mark Kelley 45% 1-year accuracy 14 / 31 met price target	13% upside $628	Buy Maintained	23 Apr 2025
Benchmark Mark Zgutowicz 34% 1-year accuracy 23 / 68 met price target	15% upside $640	Buy Maintained	23 Apr 2025
Scotiabank Nat Schindler 39% 1-year accuracy 7 / 18 met price target	5% downside $525	Sector Perform Maintained	21 Apr 2025
Morgan Stanley Brian Nowak 64% 1-year accuracy 23 / 36 met price target	11% upside $615	Overweight Maintained	17 Apr 2025