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NASDAQ · META
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Technology · Internet Content & Information
$738.88
Down-$17.57 (-2.38%)
Updated Oct 7, 2026, 10:59 PM
SID Score
7.4/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
44/100
Neutral
- Market cap
- 1.65T
- P/E ratio
- 28.07
- Dividend yield
- 0.35%
- 52-week range
- $520.26 – $779.82
- Volume
- 12.56M
- Avg. volume
- 17.47M
Price performance · META
META price history
1M range · 21 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
Prices through Oct 6, 2026
META closed at $738.88 after 21 trading sessions, up 20.44% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $738.88
- Period change
- +20.44%
- Period low
- $613.48
- Period high
- $777.59
Daily close
View OHLC price history
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | $746.73 | $747.60 | $736.69 | $738.88 | 12.56M |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $727.71 | $746.70 | $727.12 | $741.90 | 15.22M |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $733.25 | $741.58 | $726.20 | $728.08 | 12.96M |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $728.525 | $735.88 | $721.51 | $725.93 | 12.41M |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $730.265 | $738.25 | $721.30 | $725.18 | 19.29M |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $725.00 | $740.45 | $715.10 | $738.79 | 23.59M |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $750.04 | $750.576 | $713.19 | $715.62 | 27.94M |
| Sep 25, 2026 | $768.845 | $769.57 | $746.5405 | $751.66 | 25.83M |
| Sep 24, 2026 | $744.355 | $779.8192 | $743.006 | $777.59 | 34.81M |
| Sep 23, 2026 | $747.60 | $763.90 | $739.51 | $744.10 | 30.83M |
| Sep 22, 2026 | $731.40 | $757.27 | $730.00 | $736.595 | 28.12M |
| Sep 21, 2026 | $680.295 | $753.00 | $679.60 | $741.245 | 48.72M |
| Sep 18, 2026 | $688.62 | $690.15 | $660.80 | $665.75 | 27.6M |
| Sep 17, 2026 | $682.44 | $683.20 | $667.05 | $682.31 | 15.93M |
| Sep 16, 2026 | $679.905 | $685.31 | $671.9142 | $673.31 | 17.22M |
| Sep 15, 2026 | $659.30 | $678.87 | $656.20 | $670.24 | 19.5M |
| Sep 14, 2026 | $657.83 | $668.60 | $649.22 | $665.60 | 19.33M |
| Sep 11, 2026 | $653.51 | $664.24 | $646.20 | $648.03 | 16.92M |
| Sep 10, 2026 | $653.705 | $663.50 | $642.14 | $644.38 | 21.53M |
| Sep 9, 2026 | $648.64 | $657.86 | $638.56 | $653.69 | 35.9M |
| Sep 8, 2026 | $616.205 | $624.80 | $609.74 | $613.48 | 18.91M |
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Overview
Company profile and research snapshot.
Company profile
Meta is the largest social media company in the world, boasting close to 4 billion monthly active users worldwide. The firm's "Family of Apps," its core business, consists of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. End users can leverage these applications for a variety of different purposes, from keeping in touch with friends to following celebrities and running digital businesses for free. Meta packages customer data, gleaned from its application ecosystem and sells ads to digital advertisers. While the firm has been investing heavily in its Reality Labs business, it remains a very small part of Meta's overall sales.
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Consensus and target data currently published for this company.
- Consensus
- Buy
- Average target
- $857.50
- Implied upside
- —
- Analysts
- 41
| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | Wells Fargo | Overweight | — |
| Sep 25, 2026 | TD Cowen | Buy | — |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Piper Sandler | Overweight | — |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Canaccord Genuity | Buy | — |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Deutsche Bank | Buy | — |
News briefing
Generated Oct 7, 2026, 7:05 PM
Why Is META Down Today?
Meta Platforms fell 1.76% today as the broader market digested mixed signals around the company's AI investments and regulatory headwinds. While Meta continues to make strategic bets on artificial intelligence infrastructure and agent technology, a UK investigation into Instagram Instants and sector-wide valuation concerns appear to be weighing on investor sentiment.
Bottom line: Meta's modest 1.76% decline reflects investor caution about balancing the company's ambitious AI infrastructure bets against near-term profitability pressures and regulatory uncertainties. While Meta's strategic positioning in personal AI agents and renewable energy infrastructure presents genuine long-term opportunities, investors should monitor both the UK investigation outcomes and whether Meta's massive capex translates into meaningful revenue growth before reassessing conviction levels.
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Meta Platforms Stock Performance
Meta Platforms shares traded at $738.88, reflecting a daily decline of 1.32% per SID market data. Despite the session's pullback, the stock has demonstrated strong momentum across multiple timeframes, gaining 19.8% over the past month and 22.51% over the trailing three months, according to Massive/Polygon data. On a twelve-month basis, META has appreciated 11.7%, underscoring sustained investor demand for the mega-cap technology name. The stock trades significantly above both its 50-day moving average of $630.87 and its 200-day moving average of $629.30, indicating a firmly bullish technical posture. The 14-day relative strength index registers at 62.4, suggesting upward momentum without entering overbought territory. Average daily volume stands at approximately 17.47 million shares, supporting price discovery in a liquid market. Meta's beta of 1.273 indicates moderately higher volatility relative to the broader market, consistent with its large-cap technology classification.
Meta Platforms Valuation Analysis
Meta Platforms carries a market capitalization of approximately $1.65 trillion, positioning it among the largest publicly traded companies globally, per SID market data. The stock's trailing price-to-earnings ratio stands at 28.07, reflecting a premium valuation consistent with high-growth technology peers in the sector. The price-to-book ratio of 8.47 indicates the market assigns substantial value beyond Meta's tangible net assets, likely attributable to its dominant social media platforms and expanding AI infrastructure investments. According to SEC filings, the company has initiated a modest dividend program, yielding approximately 0.32% at current share price levels. The PEG ratio registers at negative 1.55, a metric distorted by forward growth estimate adjustments that complicates traditional growth-adjusted valuation comparisons. Collectively, these metrics suggest the market prices Meta at a premium that reflects expectations for continued revenue expansion and margin improvement across its family of applications and Reality Labs segments.
Smart Money Activity for META
Meta Platforms registers a composite smart money score of 44 out of 100, signaling a neutral stance among sophisticated market participants, per SID market data. Institutional positioning scores a perfect 25 out of 25, reflecting robust ownership and continued accumulation by large asset managers according to 13F institutional filings. In contrast, insider activity scores 0 out of 25, driven by a pronounced selling pattern — SEC Form 4 filings reveal 20 insider transactions over the past 90 days, comprising 19 sells against just one purchase. This imbalance suggests executives and directors have been monetizing equity compensation at elevated price levels. Dark pool activity scores a modest 9 out of 25, indicating below-average institutional block trading interest at current price levels. Congressional trading activity registers at 10.3 out of 25, reflecting moderate legislative portfolio exposure to the name. The divergence between strong institutional conviction and persistent insider selling presents a mixed signal for investors evaluating directional positioning in META shares.
Meta Platforms Earnings Outlook
Meta Platforms delivered mixed results in its most recent reporting periods, according to company earnings reports. For the quarter reported on April 29, 2026, Meta posted earnings per share of $7.31, surpassing the consensus analyst estimate of $6.67 by $0.64, representing a positive surprise of approximately 9.6%. However, the prior quarter reported on July 29, 2026, showed EPS of $6.18 against expectations of $7.18, resulting in a negative surprise of $1.00. Looking ahead, analyst estimates project EPS of $8.36 for the quarter reporting on February 4, 2026, and $6.35 for the October 28, 2026 quarter. The sequential earnings trajectory suggests analysts anticipate meaningful variability in quarterly profitability, potentially reflecting heavy capital expenditure cycles tied to AI infrastructure buildouts. The company's ability to consistently beat estimates will remain critical in sustaining the current valuation premium relative to historical averages.
Wall Street Analyst Ratings for META
Wall Street consensus remains decidedly bullish on Meta Platforms, with recent analyst actions uniformly reaffirming positive ratings, per SID consensus data. On October 6, 2026, Wells Fargo maintained its Overweight rating, reflecting continued confidence in Meta's monetization trajectory. On September 25, 2026, four firms simultaneously reiterated favorable positions: TD Cowen and Canaccord Genuity each maintained Buy ratings, Piper Sandler reaffirmed Overweight, and Deutsche Bank reiterated its Buy recommendation, according to Wall Street analyst reports. Notably, none of the five most recent analyst actions involved a downgrade or a shift to a neutral or negative stance, underscoring broad institutional conviction in the company's strategic direction. The clustering of reiterations around late September suggests these actions likely followed a company event or quarterly disclosure that reinforced existing investment theses. The unanimously positive analyst sentiment aligns with the perfect 25 out of 25 institutional positioning score, reflecting coordinated bullish conviction among professional investors and sell-side coverage.
