A new trading day began on Monday, with Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) stock price up 0.40% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $714.52. META’s price has ranged from $414.50 to $725.01 over the past 52 weeks.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Communication Services sector saw sales topped by 19.06%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 5.64%. With a float of $2.18 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $2.19 billion.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 74067 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 81.66%, operating margin of 42.18%, and the pretax margin is 42.96%.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) Insider Updates
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Internet Content & Information Industry. The insider ownership of Meta Platforms Inc is 13.87%, while institutional ownership is 67.08%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 07 ’25, was worth 39,897,067. In this transaction COB and CEO of this company sold 55,589 shares at a rate of $717.72, taking the stock ownership to the 0 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 06 ’25, when Company’s COB and CEO sold 55,589 for $711.32, making the entire transaction worth $39,541,824. This insider now owns 0 shares in total.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.64% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.47% during the next five years compared to 29.99% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Meta Platforms Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 2.98. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 11.05. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 33.62.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 23.92, a number that is poised to hit 5.23 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 28.67 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Meta Platforms Inc (META)
The latest stats from [Meta Platforms Inc, META] show that its last 5-days average volume of 14.81 million was inferior to 15.9 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 87.93%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 18.73.
During the past 100 days, Meta Platforms Inc’s (META) raw stochastic average was set at 96.09%, which indicates a significant increase from 92.79% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 8.43% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 25.27% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $627.59, while its 200-day Moving Average is $547.13. Now, the first resistance to watch is $721.96. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $726.51. The third major resistance level sits at $731.83. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $712.09, it is likely to go to the next support level at $706.77. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $702.22.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 1817.82 billion, the company has a total of 2,533,659K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 164,501 M while annual income is 62,360 M. The company’s previous quarter sales were 48,386 M while its latest quarter income was 20,838 M.
