Meta Platforms (Facebook)META
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: 76,834
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
85% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 266 | Existing positions closed: 144
28% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 2,210 | Existing positions reduced: 1,720
19% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $50.5B | Put options by funds: $42.4B
3% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 1,003 [Q4 2024] → 1,033 (+30) [Q1 2025]
0% more funds holding
Funds holding: 4,564 [Q4 2024] → 4,577 (+13) [Q1 2025]
5% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $990B [Q4 2024] → $941B (-$49B) [Q1 2025]
2.55% less ownership
Funds ownership: 77.16% [Q4 2024] → 74.61% (-2.55%) [Q1 2025]
Research analyst outlook
30 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
30 analyst ratings
B of A Securities Justin Post | 12%upside $765 | Buy Maintained | 12 Jun 2025 |
Cantor Fitzgerald Deepak Mathivanan | 1%downside $676 | Overweight Reiterated | 11 Jun 2025 |
JP Morgan Doug Anmuth | 8%upside $735 | Overweight Maintained | 4 Jun 2025 |
Loop Capital Rob Sanderson | 30%upside $888 | Buy Maintained | 16 May 2025 |
RBC Capital Brad Erickson | 3%upside $700 | Outperform Reiterated | 1 May 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 357 articles about META published over the past 30 days
