Meta Platforms (Facebook)
META
Market cap $1.52T

603.46 USD

-12.40

2.01%

Updated Jan 13, 11:10 AM EST

1 day

-2.01%

5 days

-4.47%

1 month

-2.72%

3 months

2.21%

6 months

21.63%

Year to date

0.70%

1 year

64.22%

5 years

171.94%

10 years

689.35%

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: 72,404

Information Technology Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc.

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Funds holding %

of 6,814 funds

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Analysts bullish %

of 28 analysts

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

133% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 256 | Existing positions closed: 110

25% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 1,897 | Existing positions reduced: 1,516

20% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $53.4B | Put options by funds: $44.6B

10% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $885B [Q2] → $969B (+$84.6B) [Q3]

9% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 873 [Q2] → 952 (+79) [Q3]

2% more funds holding

Funds holding: 4,015 [Q2] → 4,110 (+95) [Q3]

2.29% less ownership

Funds ownership: 80.04% [Q2] → 77.75% (-2.29%) [Q3]

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Research analyst outlook

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

Low target

$530

12%

downside

Avg. target

$675

12%

upside

High target

$811

34%

upside

28 analyst ratings

26 positive

93%

2 neutral

7%

0 negative

0%

Keybanc Aleksey Yefremov 32% 1-year accuracy 34 / 107 met price target	16%upside $700	Overweight Maintained	10 Jan 2025
Jefferies Brent Thill 59% 1-year accuracy 32 / 54 met price target	18%upside $715	Buy Maintained	6 Jan 2025
Wedbush Scott Devitt 81% 1-year accuracy 46 / 57 met price target	13%upside $680	Outperform Maintained	6 Jan 2025
Wolfe Research Shweta Khajuria 47% 1-year accuracy 8 / 17 met price target	21%upside $730	Outperform Maintained	3 Jan 2025
JMP Securities Matthew Condon 100% 1-year accuracy 2 / 2 met price target	24%upside $750	Market Outperform Maintained	2 Jan 2025

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Financial journalist opinion

Based on 267 articles about META published over the past 30 days

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