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META
Meta Platforms, Inc.
NASDAQ· Communication Services· Internet Content & Information· CUSIP 30303M102
$648.85-6.98%Price as of Oct 23, 00:40 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Internet Content & Information, part of the Communication Services sector. It is headquartered in Menlo Park, United States and has 75,472 employees. The company is worth $1.65T and trades at 22.1x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 16.1x. Revenue was $200.97B in fiscal 2025, up 22.2% from the year before. Net income was $60.46B. The share price is 16.8% below its 52-week high of $779.82. It pays a dividend yielding 0.32%. 20 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q3 2026. The largest position belongs to Baillie Gifford (Baillie Gifford & Co), at $1.8B. In that quarter, 8 of them opened or added to the position and 11 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $25.71M of its stock on the open market and bought none. All of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Analysis
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Key metrics
- Market cap
- $1.65T
- P/E
- 22.1x
- Forward P/E
- 18.6x
- P/B
- 7.6x
- Dividend yield
- 0.32%
- Payout
- 7.16%
- EPS
- $29.31
- ROE
- 29.85%
- Profit margin
- 29.84%
- Revenue growth
- +28.00%
- Beta
- 1.19
- 52-week high
- $779.82
- 52-week low
- $520.26
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
- Baillie GiffordReducedBaillie Gifford & Co · Q2 2026$1.8B3.2M shares · 1.6% of portfolio
Bill AckmanAddedPershing Square Capital Management · Q2 2026$1.8B3.2M shares · 9.2% of portfolio- Chase ColemanReducedTiger Global Management · Q2 2026$1.59B2.82M shares · 6.6% of portfolio
- Philippe LaffontReducedCoatue Management · Q2 2026$1.42B2.53M shares · 2.9% of portfolio
- Cliff AsnessAddedAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$1.21B2.17M shares · 0.4% of portfolio
- Renaissance TechnologiesAddedRenaissance Technologies · Q2 2026$1.14B2.02M shares · 1.6% of portfolio
- Andreas HalvorsenAddedViking Global Investors · Q2 2026$1.05B1.87M shares · 3.0% of portfolio
Brad GerstnerReducedAltimeter Capital · Q2 2026$763.25M1.35M shares · 7.8% of portfolio- Israel EnglanderReducedMillennium Management · Q2 2026$731.85M1.3M shares · 0.5% of portfolio
Ken GriffinReducedCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$631.07M1.12M shares · 0.4% of portfolio- Lee AinslieNew positionMaverick Capital · Q2 2026$430.38M764.04K shares · 3.9% of portfolio
David TepperAddedAppaloosa Management · Q2 2026$380.22M675K shares · 5.1% of portfolio- Two SigmaReducedTwo Sigma Investments · Q2 2026$377.06M669.39K shares · 0.3% of portfolio
- Steve CohenReducedPoint72 Asset Management · Q2 2026$319.85M567.83K shares · 0.5% of portfolio
- Daniel SundheimNew positionD1 Capital Partners · Q2 2026$319.1M566.5K shares · 0.9% of portfolio
- David AbramsHeldAbrams Capital Management · Q2 2026$183.16M325.16K shares · 3.3% of portfolio
- John ArmitageNew positionEgerton Capital · Q3 2026$139.86M192.86K shares · 1.4% of portfolio
- Tom GaynerReducedMarkel Group · Q2 2026$131.9M234.16K shares · 1.0% of portfolio
Ray DalioReducedBridgewater Associates · Q2 2026$62.01M110.08K shares · 0.3% of portfolio
George SorosReducedSoros Fund Management · Q2 2026$12.27M21.78K shares · 0.2% of portfolio
Price over time
▲ +118.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,213.18▲ +121.3%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 14 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $660.09 | $585.51 | $353.96 | $120.34 | $336.35 | $273.16 | $205.25 | $131.09 | $176.46 | $115.05 | $104.66 | $78.02 | $54.65 | $26.62 | |
| P/E | 28.1x | 28.1x | 24.5x | 23.8x | 14.0x | 24.4x | 27.1x | 31.9x | 17.3x | 32.7x | 33.0x | 81.1x | 70.9x | 91.1x | 2662.0x |
| P/S | 9.2x | 8.5x | 9.3x | 6.9x | 2.8x | 8.2x | 9.2x | 8.3x | 6.9x | 12.8x | 12.2x | 16.7x | 16.7x | 17.5x | 11.3x |
| P/B | 6.1x | 7.8x | 8.4x | 6.1x | 2.6x | 7.7x | 6.1x | 5.8x | 4.6x | 7.0x | 5.7x | 6.8x | 5.8x | 8.9x | 4.9x |
| EPS | $23.49 | $23.86 | $14.87 | $8.59 | $13.77 | $10.09 | $6.43 | $7.57 | $5.39 | $3.49 | $1.29 | $1.10 | $0.60 | $0.01 | |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.32% | 0.34% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | — | 8.94% | 8.38% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 29.53% | 30.08% | 37.91% | 28.98% | 19.90% | 33.38% | 33.90% | 26.15% | 39.60% | 39.20% | 36.97% | 20.57% | 23.58% | 19.05% | 1.04% |
| ROE | 19.94% | 27.83% | 34.14% | 25.53% | 18.45% | 31.53% | 22.72% | 18.29% | 26.28% | 21.43% | 17.26% | 8.34% | 8.14% | 9.70% | 0.45% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
$237.96
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings
$549.16
Earnings growing 18.4% a year plus a 0.3% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Earnings
$471.40
Median P/E of 16.1 among peers in the sector.
Earnings
$823.64
Median P/E of 28.1 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow
$603.58
Cash flow growing 15.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
$404.57
Sector median of 10.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividends
—
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Earnings $520.54 (avg. of 4)+Cash flow $603.58+Operating $404.57÷ 3 =$509.56
$509.56
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
$382.17
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$648.85
-21.5% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Communication Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOOGAlphabet Inc. | $320.76 | 16.1x | 6.3x | 0.27% | 48.68% | $3.92T |
| GOOGLAlphabet Inc. | $324.22 | 16.3x | 6.4x | 0.27% | 48.68% | $3.97T |
| NFLXNetflix Inc | $67.05 | 18.8x | 9.5x | 0.00% | 53.46% | $279.19B |
| DISWalt Disney Co | $113.13 | 23.3x | 1.8x | 1.33% | 8.01% | $195.34B |
| VZVerizon Communications Inc | $45.20 | 11.8x | 1.8x | 6.26% | 15.84% | $187.8B |
| TMUST-Mobile US, Inc. | $158.79 | 16.1x | 3.0x | 2.95% | 17.99% | $170.33B |
About the company
- 75,472
- Menlo Park, United States