Meta Platforms, Inc. (META)
| Market Cap | 1.72T -5.8% |
| Revenue (ttm) | 214.96B +26.2% |
| Net Income | 70.59B +5.9% |
| EPS | 27.49 +7.4% |
| Shares Out | 2.54B |
| PE Ratio | 24.05 |
| Forward PE | 20.22 |
| Dividend | $2.10 (0.31%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Jun 15, 2026 |
| Volume | 14,161,708 |
| Open | 663.60 |
| Previous Close | 661.04 |
| Day's Range | 656.66 - 686.08 |
| 52-Week Range | 520.26 - 796.25 |
| Beta | 1.25 |
| Analysts | Strong Buy |
| Price Target | 826.63 (+21.97%) |
| Earnings Date | Jul 29, 2026 |
About META
Meta Platforms, Inc. engages in the development of products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality (VR) headsets, and AI glasses in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Family of Apps (FoA) and Reality Labs (RL). The FoA segment offers Facebook, which enables people to build community through feed, reels, stories, groups, marketplace, and other; Instagram that brings people closer through Instag... [Read more]
Financial Performance
In 2025, Meta Platforms's revenue was $200.97 billion, an increase of 22.17% compared to the previous year's $164.50 billion. Earnings were $60.46 billion, a decrease of -3.05%.
Financial StatementsAnalyst Summary
According to 63 analysts, the average rating for META stock is "Strong Buy." The 12-month stock price target is $826.63, which is an increase of 21.97% from the latest price.
News
Meta employees allege discriminatory AI-driven layoffs
Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, a claim strongly denied by the trillion-dollar company.
'We have maybe 20 months' to rebuild for AI agents, Meta's infrastructure VP tells VB Transform 2026
Organizations need to transform to meet the needs of agentic AI. Meta VP of Engineering Barak Yagour opened his talk at VB Transform 2026 wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, a small sign of how...
Meta Stock’s Next Catalyst Could ‘Act More like a Coiled Spring,’ Says Top Fund Manager
Meta Platforms’ stock ($META) is rising fast after a tough few months of falling prices. Shares of Meta rose 17% in July, making Meta one of the best performers in…
Meta Workers Accuse It of Using AI to Conduct Discriminatory Layoffs
A lawsuit alleged the company relied on AI that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who were on medical or parental leave.
Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims
Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs
Employees sue Meta, alleging discrimination in using AI to make layoffs
A group of current and former employees sued Meta, alleging that the social media giant used artificial intelligence to conduct layoffs and discriminated against some workers. The workers allege that ...
Meta accused of using AI to target workers on medical leave in bloodbath layoffs: lawsuit
This tech failed to account for workers who were out on valid medical leave – and “in effect penalized the employees for exercising their legal rights to these leaves,” according to the suit.
Meta to Announce Second Quarter 2026 Results
MENLO PARK, Calif., July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) announced today that the company's second quarter 2026 financial results will be released after market close on We...
Meta used AI workplace tools to target employees on medical leave, lawsuit alleges
Twenty-six employees sued Meta, saying it used AI systems to help select workers for layoffs. The lawsuit says AI usage metrics penalized workers who took medical, parental, or disability leave.
Meta's Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer
In a recent interview, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said he can see a time in the future, perhaps only a year or two, when putting limits on Meta employees' AI token spend will become necessary.
Meta Stock Hit with Lawsuit Alleging AI Bias in Mass Layoffs
Meta Platforms, Inc. ($META), the parent company of Facebook, is facing a new lawsuit that could add legal and reputational risk to its ongoing cost-cutting efforts. Twenty-six former employees have…
Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, former employees' lawsuit claims
Twenty-six former employees of Meta Platforms have filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities, or ...
Meta’s (META) Cloud Pivot and Custom Silicon Secure the Bull Case
Meta ($META) is securing the bull case through its cloud pivot and custom silicon, in my view. The market continues to treat Meta’s infrastructure program mainly as a threat to…
Meta Platforms announces expansion of Louisiana data center
Meta announced on Monday: “Meta is expanding its Richland Parish, Louisiana data center to 5GW of compute capacity in a town that’s already seeing life-changing returns for teachers, local businesses,...
Meta Is Flooding the Market With Smartglasses. Privacy Advocates Are Up in Arms.
The social-media giant has flooded the market with its AI-enabled, camera-equipped smartglasses, much to the chagrin of privacy advocates.
Did Meta Signal The AI Boom Is Overbuilt? Wall Street Cheered Anyway
On July 13, Meta said it would put more than $50 billion into a single Louisiana data center, more than doubling its planned capacity to 5 gigawatts. Twelve days earlier, Bloomberg reported that the s...
AI-related debt jumped 99% over the past year. It's a ‘shock to the system' for investors.
A deluge of hyperscaler debt creates risk that investors will run up against concentration limits in their portfolios from a single company or industry.
Meta and Amazon are leading a trillion-dollar Big Tech spending spree
As the cost of AI infrastructure continues to increase, Morgan Stanley says Big Tech capital expenditures are on track to hit new records.
Meta says it's expanding the Louisiana AI data center that helped fuel $50K teacher bonuses
Meta announced that it is supercharging its Louisiana data center, known as Hyperion. The project has led to year-end bonuses of up to $50,000 for local teachers, Meta said.
META, AMZN, GOOGL: Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Could Hit $1.4 Trillion by 2028
Capital spending on AI infrastructure by five Big Tech companies, including Alphabet’s ($GOOGL) Google, Meta ($META), and Amazon ($AMZN), could reach between $1.2 trillion and $1.4 trillion by 2028. T...
Meta yanks controversial AI image tool after privacy backlash: ‘Force their slop down everyone's throat'
The Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp owner last Tuesday launched Muse Image, its first AI image generator meant to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 and Google's Nano Banana 2.
AMZN, GOOGL, META & 2Q Earnings Expectations as Tech Sees Tentative Tailwinds
Ted Thatcher talks about his expectations for the second quarter of the earnings season believing Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Meta Platforms (META) have strong stories right now. He looks insi...
Meta is pushing AI ads hard — and causing chaos for brands
Meta is pushing advertisers to use its AI tools — and results are proving chaotic: strangely twisted limbs, gibberish writing, or entirely changed products. Meta's response to brands: That's on you, n...
Meta, Amazon capex estimates raised at Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak, who recently raised the firm’s estimates of Alphabet’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) capital expenditures “substantially,” now raises the firm’s forecast for Meta (META) capex by ...
Meta Platforms price target lowered to $766 from $865 at UBS
UBS lowered the firm’s price target on Meta Platforms (META) to $766 from $865 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares. The firm adjusted targets for the advertising driven…