Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) has a beta value of 1.27 and has seen 2.92 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $1779.63B, closed the recent trade at $707.84 per share which meant it lost -$2.55 on the day or -0.36% during that session. The META stock price is -5.66% off its 52-week high price of $747.90 and 37.46% above the 52-week low of $442.65. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 10.51 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 13.46 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Meta Platforms Inc (META) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.44. 1 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 2 rate it as Overweight. 8 out of 51 have rated it as a Hold, with 40 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) trade information
Sporting -0.36% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the META stock price touched $707.84 or saw a rise of 3.8%. Year-to-date, Meta Platforms Inc shares have moved 41.89%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -3.40%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) have changed 3.66%. Short interest in the company has seen 30.14 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.59.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $775, which means that the shares’ value could jump 8.67% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $670.0 while the price target rests at a high of $935.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -32.09% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 5.35% from the levels at last check today..
Meta Platforms Inc (META) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 16.36% over the past 6 months.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 29.99% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 7.56% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 10.08%.
META Dividends
Meta Platforms Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-30 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 2.05 at a share yield of 0.29%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.07% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 80.01% with a share float percentage of 80.06%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Meta Platforms Inc having a total of 5946.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 189.31 million shares worth more than $95.45 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 7.4707% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 161.11 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $81.23 billion and represent 6.3579% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.19% shares in the company for having 69.19 shares of worth $48.95 billion while later fund manager owns 60.85 shares of worth $43.05 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.80% of company’s outstanding stock.
