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$770.26
+$26.16 (+3.52%)
Market open · Sep 24, 2:00 pm ET
After hours $734.00 -1.36%
Open$746.85
Prev close$744.10
Day range$743.01 – $774.25
Volume24.83M
Market cap$1.96T
P/E (TTM)29.0
Dividend yield0.27%

Price chart

Daily bars for up to one year, weekly bars for the 5-year view. Averages are 50/200 trading days (10/40 weeks on the 5-year view).

META at a glance

META last changed hands at $770.26 (up 3.52%). At $1.96T, Meta Platforms is ranked #8 by size among the 300 stocks on BeStock.

Shares are at a 52-week high, after a year that ran from $519.37 to $774.25. Holders are ahead 1.5% over twelve months, and up 38.1% across the last three months.

On the chart it holds above both the 50-day ($612.14) and 200-day ($624.96) moving averages; RSI is 77, which some call overbought, and the last 30 sessions moved at roughly 46% annualized volatility.

In the quarter ended Jun 2026 the company brought in $60.80B of revenue, up 28.0% from a year earlier, with $15.85B of net profit (a 29.8% margin).

Buyers are paying 29.0 times trailing earnings, 17% above its five-year average of 24.8. The median for its industry group is 32.8.

43 analysts follow the stock and the average call is "buy". The mean target, $758.31, sits 1.6% under where the stock trades.

This summary is put together from the numbers on the page and updates when they do. It describes the data; it is not a forecast or a recommendation.

Meta Platforms: the business

Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, earning nearly all its revenue from advertising, and it spends heavily on AI and Reality Labs.

What tends to move it. Ad growth, capital spending on AI and losses from Reality Labs are the numbers people compare.

Written by hand by the BeStock desk and revised when a business changes. See how we work. Spot something out of date? Tell us.

Performance

Price return over each window, from adjusted daily and weekly closes

1 day
+3.5%
1 week
+14.4%
1 month
+37.8%
3 months
+38.1%
6 months
+30.0%
Year to date
+16.9%
1 year
+1.5%
Day range
$743.01$774.25
52-week range
$519.37$774.25

Technical signals

Full technicals →
Trend readStrong uptrend

4 bullish · 1 bearish of 7 signals

IndicatorValueSignal
Price vs 20-day average+20.0%Bullish
Price vs 50-day average+25.8%Bullish
Price vs 200-day average+23.3%Bullish
50-day vs 200-day50d below 200dBearish
RSI (14)77.3Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)37.12Bullish
Bollinger band position106%Neutral

Standard indicator readings worked out from daily closes. They describe how the price has behaved, not where it is going.

Key statistics

Bid / Ask$770.15 / $770.47
Average price today$761.43
Volume24.83MAvg (90d) 18.61M
Turnover$18.91B
Turnover rate1.14%of shares outstanding
Volume ratio1.19vs. recent average pace
Day amplitude4.20%
Market cap$1.96T
Float market cap$1.68T
Shares outstanding2.18B
EPS (TTM)$23.49
P/E (TTM)29.01
P/B7.51
Book value / share$102.54
Earnings yield0.26%
Dividend (TTM)$2.10 / shareYield 0.27%
Net profit (TTM)$59.84B
Net assets$261.22B
30-day volatility45.9%annualized
Avg daily range (ATR)3.57%of price, 14 days
Max drawdown (1y)-32.5%-1.0% from 1y peak

Quote as of Sep 24, 2026 2:00 pm ET. Prices can lag the live tape. This is background information, not a recommendation.

How META ranks on BeStock

Market value#8 of 300
P/E (cheapest = 1)#180 of 283
Dividend yield#230 of 244
Closeness to 52-week high#2 of 300
Dollar volume today#1 of 300

Ranks are among the 300 or so U.S.-listed stocks BeStock covers, recalculated whenever prices refresh. A row is left out when the measure does not apply, such as yield for a stock that pays no dividend.

Latest reported quarter: Q2, ended Jun 2026

Revenue$60.80B+28.0% YoY
Operating profit$18.78B-8.2% YoY
Net profit$15.85B-13.6% YoY
Diluted EPS$6.18-13.4% YoY
Free cash flow$1.75B-80.6% YoY
Operating cash flow$31.86B

Revenue, last 8 quarters

$40.6BSep '24$48.4BDec '24$42.3BMar '25$47.5BJun '25$51.2BSep '25$59.9BDec '25$56.3BMar '26$60.8BJun '26

Net profit, last 8 quarters

$15.7BSep '24$20.8BDec '24$16.6BMar '25$18.3BJun '25$2.7BSep '25$22.8BDec '25$26.8BMar '26$15.8BJun '26

Profitability & balance sheet

Gross margin81.7%
Operating margin38.1%
Net margin29.8%
Return on equity29.8%
Return on assets18.3%
Return on invested capital21.9%
Current ratio2.23
Liabilities / assets41.9%
Cash & investments$90.26B
Total debt$109.89B
Net cash (debt)-$19.63B
Free cash flow / sales18.0%

Where the revenue comes from

Quarter 2026/Q2

By business line

  • Family of Apps$60.37B 99.3%
  • Reality Labs$431.00M 0.7%
Average move on report day±10.3%last 16 reports
Closed higher9 of 1656% of the time
Best reaction+23.3%
Worst reaction-24.6%

Stock move on the day after each report

-4.1%2024/Q3+1.6%2024/Q4+4.2%2025/Q1+11.3%2025/Q2-11.3%2025/Q3+10.4%2025/Q4-8.6%2026/Q1-8.0%2026/Q2

"Implied move" is the size of move the options market was pricing ahead of the report. Move is the stock’s change on the first session after the release.

Valuation

Multiples measured against the stock's own five-year history

Valuation detail →
Price / earnings24.4x
CheapRich

Below its usual level · 39th percentile, 5-year average 24.8x

#1830 of 2977 stocks by PE (1 = cheapest)

Price / book6.3x
CheapRich

Around its usual level · 43rd percentile, 5-year average 6.6x

#4510 of 5304 stocks by PB (1 = cheapest)

Price / sales7.2x
CheapRich

Around its usual level · 45th percentile, 5-year average 7.3x

#4198 of 5143 stocks by PS (1 = cheapest)

P/E over five years

9x19x29x40xSep '21Mar '24Sep '26

Dashed line is the 5-year average; the shaded band is one standard deviation either side.

Morningstar fair value estimate

Fair value$850.00
Price vs. fair value-9.4%Trading below the estimate
Star rating★★★★☆
Economic moatWide
UncertaintyHigh

Analyst view

All ratings →
ConsensusBuy
Analysts43
Average target$758.31-1.6% vs. price
  • Buy 86%
  • Hold 14%
Low $580.00Now $770.26Avg $758.31High $1,000.00

Latest rating actions

  • 11 Sep 2026WedbushHOLD · PT $650.00
  • 10 Sep 2026OppenheimerHOLD
  • 10 Sep 2026J.P. MorganBUY · PT $820.00
  • 9 Sep 2026KeyBancBUY
  • 9 Sep 2026BofA SecuritiesBUY · PT $810.00

Ownership & positioning

Who holds it, who is betting against it, and where the big money is moving

Ownership detail →
Institutional ownership67.9%-0.13 pts vs. prior quarter
Institutions holding6,000-34 vs. prior quarter
Insider trades (recent)21 buys / 13 sellsNet buying
Short interest1.13% of floatDays to cover 1.7 · as of 31 Aug 2026
Short-sale volume share8.7%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

5%7%9%10%Aug '26Sep '26Sep '26

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: −$26.86M (10 inflow days, 10 outflow days).

Dividends

Dividend yield (TTM)0.27%
Last dividend$0.53Ex-date 21 Sep 2026
Next-to-last$0.53
Payments on file11

Dividends paid per share, by year

2.0020242.1020251.582026

Latest headlines

More news →
  • K1: CIRCULAR TO SHAREHOLDERS IN RELATION TO THE:- (I) PROPOSED DISPOSAL BY K2 META SDN BHD, A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF K-ONE, OF 600,000 AND 400,000 ORDINARY SHARES IN G-ASIAPACIFIC SDN BHD TO ITOCHU SINGAPORE PTE LTD AND ITOCHU CORPORATION, RESPECTIVELY, FOR A DISPOSAL CONSIDERATION OF RM94,000,000 TO BE WHOLLY SATISFIED IN CASH ("PROPOSED DISPOSAL"); AND (II) PROPOSED CAPITAL REDUCTION CUM REPBursa Malaysia · 9 Sep 2026
  • Former Meta Superintelligence Labs Agentic AI Lead Joins Project 777, Strengthening Technical Leadership Alongside Former U.S. Space Force CTO Preston DunlapPR Newswire · 4 Sep 2026
  • Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Already Renting AI Compute. Can Meta Catch Up?Benzinga · 4 Sep 2026
  • BofA Securities Maintains Meta Platforms(META.US) With Buy Rating, Maintains Target Price $810Market news · 4 Sep 2026
  • Meta shares extended gains, rising more than 4%, following the release of its Muse Spark 1.3 large language model, which outperformed competitors across multiple benchmark evaluations.Jinwu Information · 3 Sep 2026
  • Meta announced adjustments to its AI performance evaluation criteria, explicitly rejecting the practice of "token stuffing."wallstreetcn · 3 Sep 2026

META stock: common questions

What is META's latest share price?

$770.26 is the latest print for META, a move of +3.52% against yesterday's close of $744.10. Today's low and high so far: $743.01 and $774.25.

How large is Meta Platforms by market value?

Equity value comes to $1.96T at the current price. By that measure it is number 8 of the 300 names in our coverage.

What multiple of earnings does META sell for?

Buyers pay 29.0 times the last twelve months of profit (EPS $23.49). Averaged over five years the multiple has been 24.8, and today's level ranks in the 39th percentile of its own history.

How far is META from its yearly high?

The year's floor is $519.37 and the ceiling $774.25. Shares are 0.5% away from that ceiling.

Are there dividends on Meta Platforms shares?

It does. Payouts over the past twelve months work out to a 0.27% yield; the latest ex-dividend date was September 21, 2026.

Do Wall Street analysts like META?

Of 43 analysts, 86% say buy, 14% hold and 0% sell. Price targets average $758.31, with the most cautious at $580.00 and the most optimistic at $1,000.00.

How does Meta Platforms make money?

Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, earning nearly all its revenue from advertising, and it spends heavily on AI and Reality Labs.

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