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: 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
33 analyst ratings
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 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 429 articles about META published over the past 30 days









