Meta/$META
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About Meta
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.
- Ticker
- $META
- Sector
- Software & Cloud Services
- Primary listing
- NASDAQ
- Employees
- 75,472
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, United States
- Website
- www.meta.com
Meta Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$1.6T
23.12
$26.54
1.24
$2.10
0.34%
Price and volume
Market cap
$1.6T
Beta
1.24
52-week high
$790.80
52-week low
$520.26
Average daily volume
17M
Dividend rate
$2.10
Financial strength
Current ratio
2.226
Quick ratio
1.987
Long term debt to equity
42.069
Total debt to equity
42.997
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
7.88%
Interest coverage (TTM)
42.84%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
112,055
Gross margin (TTM)
81.75%
Net profit margin (TTM)
29.84%
Operating margin (TTM)
38.08%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
22.20%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$3,020,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
14.59%
Return on equity (TTM)
29.85%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
23.117
Price to revenue (TTM)
6.797
Price to book
5.97
Price to tangible book (TTM)
6.57
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
37.863
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
2.64%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
16.202
Dividend yield (TTM)
0.34%
Forward dividend yield
0.34%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
27.65%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
-3.75%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
23.72%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
26.27%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
45.94%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
28.02%
What the Analysts think about Meta
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Meta stock.
Analyst projections of the future price of Meta stock.
Bulls say / Bears say
Meta’s core business remains highly resilient: second-quarter revenue rose 28% to $60.8 billion, beating expectations, while Family of Apps daily active users increased 3% to 3.6 billion. (Associated Press)
AI investment is already being positioned as a growth engine for advertising and new enterprise products; Meta’s confidence in the strategy is supported by a planned commitment of up to $27 billion for Nebius AI infrastructure capacity. (Bloomberg)
Meta’s unmatched engagement footprint provides substantial monetization optionality: Instagram reportedly reached 2 billion daily users and Threads reached 500 million monthly active users during the second quarter. (Associated Press)
Meta’s AI buildout is becoming materially more capital-intensive: it raised 2026 capital-expenditure guidance to $125 billion–$145 billion, while higher component prices and data-center costs are pressuring investor confidence in returns. (Bloomberg)
Second-quarter profit fell 14% year over year, while free cash flow dropped 91% to $784 million as legal and severance costs rose sharply. (Associated Press)
Meta disclosed almost $700 billion of future commitments tied largely to AI data centers, cloud capacity, servers and network infrastructure, increasing execution, liquidity and potential overcapacity risks if AI monetization disappoints. (Bloomberg Law)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 9 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing Meta
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Fund name | Fund size | $META weighting |
|---|---|---|
SPDR MSCI World Telecommunications€WTEL | €86M | 19.73% |
Xtrackers Artificial Intelligence And Big Data€XAIX | €7.9B | 4.69% |
Xtrackers Artificial Intelligence And Big Data£XAIX | £6.8B | 4.69% |
iShares Edge MSCI USA Quality Factor£IUQF | £1.5B | 4.06% |
iShares Dow Jones Global Titans 50€EXI2 | €2.9B | 3.86% |
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