Meta Platforms, Inc. develops products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, PCs, virtual reality headsets, wearables and home devices around the world. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
| Revenue (TTM) | $241.61B |
| Gross Profit (TTM) | $195.78B |
| EBITDA | $116.19B |
| Operating Margin | 35.40% |
| Return on Equity | 32.30% |
| Return on Assets | 14.60% |
| Revenue/Share (TTM) | $95.19 |
| Book Value | $106.57 |
| Price-to-Book | 5.68 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 6.46 |
| EV/Revenue | 6.54 |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.82 |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | 264.80% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 26.10% |
| Shares Outstanding | $2.21B |
| Float | $2.21B |
| % Insiders | 0.13% |
| % Institutions | 77.46% |
Volatility is currently contracting
Meta recently launched its Muse agents — a new generation of cuddly agentic helpers. Now, the company has launched Spaces, a new way to communicate and collaborate with them.
Meta stock sits nearly $100 below its recent peak, and the gap between a modest recovery and a five-year windfall is wider than most investors expect. Here is exactly what a $1,000 stake could look like across six distinct scenarios.
Meta's ad machine keeps humming, yet a $9.89 billion settlement, a newly Democratic Congress, and a stalled deal strategy have clouded the picture. Which upcoming events could finally tip the call on this stock?
Meta Platforms is rated Buy, with shares ~20% below peak and long-term pricing power supporting heavy spending. Meta posted negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion in Q3 2026, but price per ad rose 14% and outgrew impressions for the first time since early 2025. Excluding the $9.89 billion legal charge, the operating margin was 35%, and costs have now outpaced revenue for five straight quarters.
Alphabet stock is nearly 30% below its record high and trades for about 18 times forward earnings. Google Cloud revenue more than doubled last quarter, and the Gemini app has passed 1 billion users.
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Meta pauses planned terms updates, keeps existing rules in place
Meta Platforms is creating new Class C nonvoting shares that effectively create a 2-for-1 stock split. The split increases the share pool without detracting from Mark Zuckerberg's voting control.
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