In last trading session, Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) saw 13.92 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.27. Company’s recent per share price level of $726.09 trading at $17.41 or 2.46% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $1825.50B. That closing price of META’s stock is at a discount of -2.04% from its 52-week high price of $740.91 and is indicating a premium of 39.04% from its 52-week low price of $442.65. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 12.12 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 16.07 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Meta Platforms Inc (META), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.45. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 51 analysts covering the stock, 1 rated the stock as a Sell while 2 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 8 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 40 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 2.46%, in the last five days META remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 06/26/25 when the stock touched $726.09 price level, adding 0.29% to its value on the day. Meta Platforms Inc’s shares saw a change of 45.54% in year-to-date performance and have moved 4.36% in past 5-day. Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) showed a performance of 13.04% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 30.14 million shares which calculate 2.59 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 750 to the stock, which implies a rise of 3.19% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 670 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 935. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 7.72% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 7.72% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 29.99% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 7.32% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 10.07%.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.07% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 80.05 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 80.11%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 80.05% institutions for Meta Platforms Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at META for having 189.31 million shares of worth $95.45 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 7.4707 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 161.11 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.3579 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $81.23 billion.
