Meta Platforms, Inc. (META)

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Key Metrics & Ratings

  • symbol META
  • Rev/Share 67.4155
  • Book/Share 73.2208
  • PB 9.8458
  • Debt/Equity 0.2676
  • CurrentRatio 2.6623
  • ROIC 0.2621

 

  • MktCap 1812499563904.0
  • FreeCF/Share 20.7008
  • PFCF 34.6485
  • PE 27.3395
  • Debt/Assets 0.1767
  • DivYield 0.0028
  • ROE 0.3869

 

  • Rating B+
  • Score 3
  • Recommendation Neutral
  • P/E Score 2
  • DCF Score 3
  • P/B Score 1
  • D/E Score 3

Recent Analyst Ratings

Type Ticker Analyst Firm Previous Rating Current Rating Previous Price Target Current Price Target Date
Upgrade META Needham Underperform Hold -- -- July 3, 2025
Reiterated META UBS -- Buy $683 $812 June 26, 2025
Reiterated META Citigroup -- Buy $690 $803 June 24, 2025
Reiterated META KeyBanc Capital Markets -- Overweight $645 $655 May 1, 2025
Reiterated META Guggenheim -- Buy $675 $725 May 1, 2025
Reiterated META Pivotal Research Group -- Buy $875 $830 May 1, 2025
Reiterated META MoffettNathanson -- Buy $525 $605 May 1, 2025
Reiterated META Monness Crespi & Hardt -- Buy $775 $780 May 1, 2025
Reiterated META Roth Capital -- Buy $580 $620 May 1, 2025
Reiterated META UBS -- Buy $650 $683 May 1, 2025

News

Why Meta's AI Edge Makes It The Top Ad Stock For 2025
META
Published: July 15, 2025 by: Benzinga
Sentiment: Positive

Meta Platforms META is significantly advancing its artificial intelligence capabilities, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing ambitious plans for several multi-gigawatt data centers.

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META Plans "Several" Data Centers, Shift in Open-Source A.I.
META
Published: July 15, 2025 by: Schwab Network
Sentiment: Positive

Meta Platforms (META) is looking to build numerous multi-gigawatt data centers that CEO Mark Zuckerberg says make up a "significant part of the footprint of Manhattan." Marley Kayden says that may not be the only piece of news moving the stock.

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Meta Stock Gets Price Target Boost But Will Need To 'Make A Case' For Growing AI Costs
META
Published: July 15, 2025 by: Investors Business Daily
Sentiment: Positive

A Meta stock analyst said Zuckerberg's AI spending pledge signals confidence but company needs to "make a case" for returns.

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Meta: More Than One-Third Of Revenue To Be Spent On AI In FY2025
META
Published: July 15, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Positive

META's stock is nearly up 50% since April low and could hit new highs soon, as markets expect ad spending to hold up despite potential economic slowdown in 2H 2025. AI remains the key growth driver, supported by Llama 4 releases, strategic AI acquisitions, and in-house AI team expansion. Advertising growth is still resilient on a constant currency basis, with AI monetization and new channels like WhatsApp and Threads driving revenue growth.

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Nvidia shares surge, Bank earnings breakdown, Meta's massive AI bet
META, NVDA
Published: July 15, 2025 by: Yahoo Finance
Sentiment: Positive

Market Brief: Market Sunrise anchor Josh Schafer breaks down the latest international financial news for July 15, 2025. Nvidia's stock is surging more than 5% in premarket trading after the chipmaker received government assurances that it could resume sales of its H20 AI chip in China.

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Dividend Investing Isn't All Sunshine
META, NOBL, NVDA, PLTR, QQQ, SCHD, SPYD
Published: July 15, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Negative

Almost all of my net worth is tied to my dividend investment strategy. Yet, at the same time, I fully realize that dividend investing is suboptimal (at least for some). In the article, I discuss the key disadvantages that come from devising an income-biased strategy.

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Meta's new superintelligence lab is discussing major AI strategy changes: NYT
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: CNBC Television
Sentiment: Neutral

CNBC's Deirdre Bosa reports on the artificial intelligence arms race between major tech companies, including Meta, Alphabet, Nvidia and Microsoft.

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Meta Investing ‘Hundreds of Billions of Dollars' in AI Infrastructure
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: PYMNTS
Sentiment: Positive

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday (July 14) that the company will invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into AI infrastructure for its superintelligence effort. Writing in a thread on Meta's social media platform Threads, Zuckerberg noted that Meta has also been investing in talent for its superintelligence team.

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Meta removes 10 million Facebook profiles in effort to combat spam
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: CNBC
Sentiment: Positive

Meta on Monday said it's removed about 10 million Facebook profiles for impersonating large content producers so far in 2025, in an effort to reduce spam. This mandate comes at a time when AI is making it easier to mass-produce content throughout social media platforms.

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Meta's New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: NYTimes
Sentiment: Negative

Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta's most powerful open source A.I.

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Meta to Spend Hundreds of Billions on AI, Says Zuckerberg
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: Bloomberg Technology
Sentiment: Positive

Bloomberg's Kurt Wagner discusses Meta's plans to invest in compute power to build out AI superintelligence. He joins Jackie Davalos on “Bloomberg Tech.

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Meta announces massive 'Prometheus' & 'Hyperion' data center plans
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: CNBC Television
Sentiment: Positive

CNBC's Deirdre Bosa joins 'Money Movers' to discuss Big Tech's AI talent raid.

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RDDT vs. META: Which Social Media Ad Stock Has an Edge Right Now?
META, RDDT
Published: July 14, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Neutral

META's robust ad tools and diversified revenue streams overshadow RDDT's limited reach and growth uncertainties.

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building a 5GW AI data center
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: TechCrunch
Sentiment: Positive

Meta is currently building out a data center, called Hyperion, which the company expects to supply its new AI lab with five gigawatts (GW) of computational power, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Monday post on Threads.

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Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: CNBC
Sentiment: Positive

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest "hundreds of billions of dollars" into artificial intelligence compute infrastructure. The company plans to bring its first supercluster, Prometheus, online next year.

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to invest hundreds of billions on data centers after poaching top AI talent
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: New York Post
Sentiment: Neutral

"We have the capital from our business to do this," Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads.

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Meta announces several multi-gigawatt data centers, first planning to come online in 2026
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: CNBC Television
Sentiment: Positive

CNBC's Deirdre Bosa joins 'Money Movers' to discuss Meta's announcement of bringing several data centers online.

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Zuckerberg says Meta will invest hundreds of billions in superintelligence
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: Reuters
Sentiment: Positive

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday the company would invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence, after social media giant unveiled its newly created AI initiative Meta Superintelligence Labs.

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Meta investors, Zuckerberg to square off at $8 billion trial over alleged privacy violations
META
Published: July 14, 2025 by: Reuters
Sentiment: Negative

Mark Zuckerberg is expected to appear as a star witness in an unusual $8 billion trial that kicks off this week at which the Meta CEO is accused of operating Facebook as an illegal enterprise that allowed users' data to be harvested without their consent.

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Meta acquires voice startup Play AI
META
Published: July 13, 2025 by: TechCrunch
Sentiment: Positive

Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup that uses AI to generate human-sounding voices.

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Meta Buying Voice AI Startup PlayAI
META
Published: July 13, 2025 by: PYMNTS
Sentiment: Positive

Meta has reportedly acquired voice technology/artificial intelligence (AI) startup PlayAI. The “entire PlayAI team” is due to join Meta this week, Bloomberg News reported late Friday (July 11), citing an internal memo.

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Bull Case in META Ad Revenue, "Poaching Talent" to Drive A.I.
META
Published: July 11, 2025 by: Schwab Network
Sentiment: Positive

Tyler Ellegard says Meta Platforms (META) is a buy even as it trades just off all-time highs. He sees the Mag 7 giant's ad revenue as a prime growth driver that will continue to accelerate over the next couple of years.

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Exclusive: Meta won't tweak pay-or-consent model further despite risk of EU fines, sources say
META
Published: July 11, 2025 by: Reuters
Sentiment: Negative

Meta Platforms is very unlikely to offer more changes to its pay-or-consent model, meaning it is almost certain to be hit by fresh EU antitrust charges and hefty daily fines, people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

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Meta's Aggressive Hiring Sprees May Further Drive Its Rally
META
Published: July 11, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Positive

META's recently fast/furious rally has outpaced its robust fundamentals, with valuations now overstretched compared to its historical averages and peers. Its AI-driven growth and aggressive talent acquisition support the social media/advertising giant's long-term ambitions, albeit triggering a minimal margin of safety at current levels. While META's technical indicators suggest sustained upward momentum in the near-term, the stock market's overly exuberant sentiment may trigger near-term volatility.

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Positive Digital Ad Spend Outlook, META's New Cycle of Spending
META
Published: July 11, 2025 by: Schwab Network
Sentiment: Positive

Scott Devitt and his Wedbush team share insights from a recent Digital Ads survey. He reveals a largely positive backdrop for the overall digital advertising space addressing companies like The Trade Desk (TTD), Pinterest (PINS), Amazon (AMZN) and more.

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Meta Pays $200 Million To Get One AI Programmer From Apple
META
Published: July 10, 2025 by: 24/7 Wall Street
Sentiment: Positive

Meta (NASDAQ: META) wants to be the global leader in AI systems that can complete tasks at the level of humans.

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Meta Platforms Enticed Apple AI Executive With $200M Pay Package, Report Says
META
Published: July 10, 2025 by: Investopedia
Sentiment: Neutral

Meta Platforms (META) reportedly offered a pay package worth more than $200 million to poach Ruoming Pang, Apple's (AAPL) top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models, as the Facebook parent builds up its new “Superintelligence” AI division.

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Roberts: META & NVDA Will Lead Mag 7, Temper Growth Expectations
META, NVDA
Published: July 09, 2025 by: Schwab Network
Sentiment: Neutral

Retail investors continue to push the bull market further, according to @TheRealInvestmentShow's Lance Roberts, noting the strength in first and second-hand A.I. stocks leading that charge.

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Will Meta Platforms (META) Beat Estimates Again in Its Next Earnings Report?
META
Published: July 09, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

Meta Platforms (META) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.

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Here's Why Meta Platforms (META) is a Strong Growth Stock
META
Published: July 09, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

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About Meta Platforms, Inc. (META)

  • IPO Date 2012-05-18
  • Website https://investor.fb.com
  • Industry Internet Content & Information
  • CEO Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
  • Employees 76834

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 headsets, and wearables worldwide. It operates in two segments, Family of Apps and Reality Labs. The Family of Apps segment offers Facebook, which enables people to share, discuss, discover, and connect with interests; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and private messages, as well as feed, stories, reels, video, live, and shops; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, communities, and businesses across platforms and devices through text, audio, and video calls; and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is used by people and businesses to communicate and transact privately. The Reality Labs segment provides augmented and virtual reality related products comprising consumer hardware, software, and content that help people feel connected, anytime, and anywhere. The company was formerly known as Facebook, Inc. and changed its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. in October 2021. Meta Platforms, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.