Meta Platforms Inc (META) EPS is poised to hit 6.73 next quarter: How Investors Can Make It Count the Most?

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) started the day on Thursday, with a price decrease of -0.27% at $595.57, before settling in for the price of $597.19 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, META posted a 52-week range of $340.01-$638.40.

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The Communication Services sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 19.99% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 14.46%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 52.40%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $2.18 billion, simultaneously with a float of $2.17 billion. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $1503.22 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $585.95, while the 200-day Moving Average is $524.58.

Meta Platforms Inc (META) Ownership Facts and Figures

Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Internet Content & Information Industry. Meta Platforms Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 13.90%, in contrast to 67.13% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Dec 17 ’24, this organization’s Chief Legal Officer sold 905 shares at the rate of 626.66, making the entire transaction reach 567,127 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 34,725.

Meta Platforms Inc (META) Earnings and Revenue Records

Meta Platforms Inc’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 52.40% and is forecasted to reach 25.38 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 17.00% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 14.46% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Meta Platforms Inc (META). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 2.73. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 15.99. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $28.05, and its Beta score is 1.18. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 9.62. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 28.77.

In the same vein, META’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 21.23, a figure that is expected to reach 6.73 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 25.38 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Meta Platforms Inc (META)

If we take a close look at the recent performances of Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META), its last 5-days Average volume was 12.85 million that shows plunge from its year to date volume of 14.73 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 14.85% While, its Average True Range was 16.71.

Raw Stochastic average of Meta Platforms Inc (META) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 77.17%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 31.83% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 30.82% that was higher than 26.90% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.