In the last trading session, 8.08 million Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.27. With the company’s per share price at $702.40 changed hands at $8.34 or 1.20% during last session, the market valuation stood at $1765.94B. META’s last price was a discount, traded about -5.48% off its 52-week high of $740.91. The share price had its 52-week low at $442.65, which suggests the last value was 36.98% up since then.
Analysts gave the Meta Platforms Inc (META) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.41. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 51 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 2 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 8 recommended META as a Hold, 40 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) trade information
Instantly META was in green as seen at the end of in last trading. With action 5.33%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 19.96%, with the 5-day performance at 5.33% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) is 18.55% up.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 750, meaning bulls need an upside of 6.35% from its current market value. According to analyst projections, META’s forecast low is 670 with 935 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -33.12% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 4.61% for it to hit the projected low.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) estimates and forecasts
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 29.99%. The 2025 estimates are for Meta Platforms Inc earnings to increase by 7.16%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 10.07% per year.
META Dividends
Meta Platforms Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in July. The 0.29% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 2.02. It is important to note, however, that the 0.29% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META)’s Major holders
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 6.3579% or 161.11 million shares worth $81.23 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund. With 69.19 shares estimated at $48.6 billion under it, the former controlled 3.19% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.80% of the shares, roughly 60.85 shares worth around $42.74 billion.
