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) | $214.96B |
| Gross Profit (TTM) | $176.14B |
| EBITDA | $109.31B |
| Operating Margin | 40.60% |
| Return on Equity | 32.90% |
| Return on Assets | 16.40% |
| Revenue/Share (TTM) | $85.21 |
| Book Value | $96.01 |
| Price-to-Book | 6.19 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 7.01 |
| EV/Revenue | 7.04 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.57 |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | 62.40% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 33.10% |
| Shares Outstanding | $2.20B |
| Float | $2.19B |
| % Insiders | 0.10% |
| % Institutions | 80.28% |
Volatility is currently contracting
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg blasted the “centralization” of AI in the hands of a few powerful companies and even opposed potential bans on Chinese AI models as he hailed open access to the new tech as a way to unlock prosperity.
Landon Swan from @LikeFolio discusses expectations for Meta Platforms (META) ahead of the company's earnings release after Wednesday's closing bell. He touches on consumer demand data and says the company is “doing a lot right” to maintain its global audience through social media.
Sarah Kunst, Managing Director at Cleo Capital, argued in a CNBC interview on July 29 that Meta's enormous AI infrastructure spending reflects Mark Zuckerberg's personal conviction and is likely to continue despite investor pushback.
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Pre-market futures are flat-to-down ahead of today's open, with overseas turbulence in the memory chip market reverberating on domestic shores. We also see something of a hesitation in trading ahead of this afternoon's Fed decision on interest rates.
At $593.41, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META | META Price Prediction) screens as an attractive setup for research.
Investors tracking the artificial intelligence (AI) boom are rapidly realizing that building the future requires staggering amounts of physical capital. The underlying infrastructure of the digital economy requires steel, concrete, and gigawatts of electricity.
Meta is expected to show 27% year-over-year revenue growth in its second-quarter earnings report. Investors will be particularly focused on capital expenditures, as Meta and its hyperscaler peers collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year building out AI infrastructure.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META, XETRA:FB2A, SIX:FB) is expected to post second-quarter results above Wall Street expectations, with analysts pointing to healthy advertising demand and early returns from artificial intelligence investment even as investors press the company for clearer evidence its AI spending will pay off. Bank of America expects Meta to report revenue of $60.6 billion and earnings per share of $7.50, above consensus of $60.2 billion and $7.18, citing healthy ad growth and potential upside from May's workforce reductions.
A quarter-points rate hike has been bandied about as a possibility today.
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