Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) is a social media company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It's one of the biggest listed companies in the United States by market capitalization. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, Meta Platforms owns and operates social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads as well as instant messaging service, WhatsApp, among other products and services. The company operates through two business segments: Family of Apps and Reality Labs. Meta Platforms went public on the NASDAQ in 2012.
December 18, 2024: Instagram is set to account for more than half of Meta Platforms' advertising revenue in the United States next year, as the social media platform improves monetization of its products, according to Reuters.
December 10, 2024: Meta Platforms stock is up 5% in a month, with investor optimism around the TikTok ban, according to Forbes.
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| 52-week range | $338.72 - $637.89 |
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| 50-day moving average | $586.52 |
| 200-day moving average | $526.04 |
| Wall St. target price | $654.06 |
| PE ratio | 28.6539 |
| Dividend yield | $1.5 (0.34%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $21.21 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $599.81 from 2024-12-26
| 1 week (2024-12-20) | 2.49% |
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| 1 month (2024-11-29) | 4.44% |
| 3 months (2024-09-27) | 5.72% |
| 6 months (2024-06-28) | 18.96% |
| 1 year (2023-12-28) | 67.40% |
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| 2 years (2022-12-28) | 420.76% |
| 3 years (2021-12-28) | 73.91% |
| 5 years (2019-12-27) | 189.33% |
Valuing Meta Platforms stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Meta Platforms's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Meta Platforms's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 29x. In other words, Meta Platforms shares trade at around 29x recent earnings.
That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29).
Meta Platforms's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.1056. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Meta Platforms's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Meta Platforms's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $79.2 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Meta Platforms's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $156.2 billion |
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| Operating margin TTM | 42.77% |
| Gross profit TTM | $92.9 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 17.19% |
| Return on equity TTM | 36.13% |
| Profit margin | 35.55% |
| Book value | $65.19 |
| Market Capitalization | $1.5 trillion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Meta Platforms.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 29.4
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Meta Platforms's overall score of 29.4 (as at 12/31/2018) is nothing to write home about – landing it in it in the 59th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Meta Platforms is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 0.07/100
Social score: 13.68/100
Governance score: 8.28/100
Controversy score: 4/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Meta Platforms scored a 4 out of 5 for controversy – the second-lowest score possible, reflecting that Meta Platforms has a damaged public profile.
Meta Platforms Inc. was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 29.4 |
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| Total ESG percentile | 59.14 |
| Environmental score | 0.07 |
| Social score | 13.68 |
| Governance score | 8.28 |
| Level of controversy | 4 |
Dividend payout ratio: 9.42% of net profits
Recently Meta Platforms has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Meta Platforms shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Meta Platforms's case, that would currently equate to about $1.5 per share.
While Meta Platforms's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Meta Platforms is investing more in its future growth.
Meta Platforms's most recent dividend payout was on 26 December 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 15 December 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Over the last 12 months, Meta Platforms's shares have ranged in value from as little as $338.7161 up to $637.8855. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Meta Platforms's is 1.215. This would suggest that Meta Platforms's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
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.
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