A new trading day began on Monday, with Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) stock price down -2.22% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $543.57. META’s price has ranged from $414.50 to $740.91 over the past 52 weeks.
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Annual sales at Communication Services sector company grew by 19.06% over the past five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 4.38%. With a float of $2.19 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $2.19 billion.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 74067 employees. 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 and Institutional Ownership
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 13.72%, while institutional ownership is 67.65%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 14 ’25, was worth 338,322. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 08 ’25, when Company’s Chief Legal Officer sold 921 for $543.39, making the entire transaction worth $500,462. This insider now owns 29,340 shares in total.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 5.67 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 4.38% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 10.81% 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 8.19. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 24.90.
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 28.36 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Meta Platforms Inc (META)
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) saw its 5-day average volume 25.44 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 17.76 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 52.86%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 33.15.
During the past 100 days, Meta Platforms Inc’s (META) raw stochastic average was set at 19.14%, which indicates a significant decrease from 34.23% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 81.90% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 42.34% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $630.34, while its 200-day Moving Average is $578.36. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $550.07 in the near term. At $568.67, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $579.56. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $520.58, it is likely to go to the next support level at $509.69. The third support level lies at $491.09 if the price breaches the second support level.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 1346.59 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.
