Meta Platforms, Inc. (META)
| Market Cap | 1.67T -6.4% |
| Revenue (ttm) | 214.96B +26.2% |
| Net Income | 70.59B +5.9% |
| EPS | 27.49 +7.4% |
| Shares Out | 2.54B |
| PE Ratio | 23.89 |
| Forward PE | 20.08 |
| Dividend | $2.10 (0.31%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Jun 15, 2026 |
| Volume | 19,840,702 |
| Open | 661.38 |
| Previous Close | 669.21 |
| Day's Range | 654.20 - 676.62 |
| 52-Week Range | 520.26 - 796.25 |
| Beta | 1.25 |
| Analysts | Strong Buy |
| Price Target | 826.63 (+25.87%) |
| 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 25.87% from the latest price.
News
Did Meta Signal The AI Boom Is Overbuilt? Wall Street Cheered Anyway
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AI-related debt jumped 99% over the past year. It's a ‘shock to the system' for investors.
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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 $865 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares. The firm adjusted targets for the advertising driven…
Meta AI Splurge Continues and J.P. Morgan Is Worried for the Stock
Meta stock has been boosted by signs it is becoming more competitive in AI but JP Morgan analysts aren't convinced yet.
Meta, OpenAI, SpaceXAI Compete on AI Costs as Enterprise Bills Hit Millions
U.S. tech giant Meta Platforms ($META), ChatGPT creator OpenAI, and SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence division of Elon Musk’s rocket firm SpaceX ($SPCX), are now rolling out cheaper AI models in…
Meta Lifts Cost of Louisiana Data Center to $50 Billion
The company scaled up the size of its massive data-center project in Northeast Louisiana to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity and said it would now cost more than $50 billion.
Meta expands Louisiana data center to 5 gigawatts compute capacity
Meta said on Monday its data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana will expand to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, in a bid to support the social media company's AI ambitions.
Meta's Louisiana data center investment to reach $50 billion, aided by generous tax incentives
Meta said the planned Hyperion data center supercluster in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will be a 5GW data center and cost over $50 billion. That's higher than the $27 billion figure that was revealed ...
EU to propose limit on kids' social media access, von der Leyen says
The European Commission will present a proposal to limit children's access to social media platforms after the summer, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday.
3 AI stocks Morgan Stanley prefers as investors rotate away from chips
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Meta Shuts Down AI Image Tool Following Backlash
Meta has shuttered an artificial intelligence image creation feature after just three days, following public backlash. The tech giant last Tuesday (July 7) introduced a tool that let users generate i...
Setting Stage for Mag 7 Earnings After 2Q Sets High Bar
Jed Ellerbroek discusses the market's digestion of strong second-quarter gains, the impact of U.S.-Iran tensions on oil prices, and what's ahead for cyclical stocks. He highlights upcoming earnings fr...
Meta, OpenAI, SpaceXAI release new cost-efficient models, Bloomberg says
Over the past week, Meta (META), SpaceXAI (SPCX), and OpenAI have released new models, all promising to be more advanced while being more cost-effective, Lorelei Smillie and Rachel Metz of…
Meta Stock Jumps 6% as Instagram AI Image Tool Is Pulled Over Privacy Concerns
Meta Platforms ($META), the social media and technology company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has pulled a new AI image-generation feature just days after its launch, following criticism o...
‘This was a righteous case. A holy war': the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won
When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that...
Big Tech's Massive AI Spending Is Just Starting. Earnings Will Show It.
Analysts expect Alphabet's second-quarter capital expenditures to reach $44.9 billion, a 100% increase from the prior year period.
‘Almost unlimited': Execs says AI demand remains strong even as enterprises move to ‘valuemaxxing'
AI company executives told CNBC they are not seeing signs of overcapacity in the AI buildout. But they suggested that enterprises are looking more closely at how much AI is costing and the return on t...
Citizens Analyst Is Bullish on Meta’s AI Progress, But Lowered His Price Target. Here’s Why
Social media giant Meta Platforms ($META) has been in the news for its AI announcements, mainly the launch of its first AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, and its in-house AI…