Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) open the trading on Thursday, with great promise as it jumped 2.48% to $533.15, before settling in for the price of $520.27 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, META posted a 52-week range of $414.50-$740.91.
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It was noted that the giant of the Communication Services sector posted annual sales growth of 19.06% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 29.99%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 3.21%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $2.19 billion, simultaneously with a float of $2.18 billion. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $1346.22 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $602.21, while the 200-day Moving Average is $578.09.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Internet Content & Information industry. Meta Platforms Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 13.76%, in contrast to 68.02% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Apr 22 ’25, this organization’s Chief Legal Officer sold 921 shares at the rate of 491.87, making the entire transaction reach 453,012 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 27,498. Preceding that transaction, on Apr 21 ’25, Company’s Chief Operating Officer sold 406 for 491.69, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 199,626. This particular insider is now the holder of 4,608 in total.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 5.59 per share during the current fiscal year.
Meta Platforms Inc’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 3.21% and is forecasted to reach 27.95 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 10.51% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 29.99% 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 2.98. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 28.55. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $22.29, and its Beta score is 1.25. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 8.18. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 24.90.
In the same vein, META’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 23.92, a figure that is expected to reach 5.24 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 27.95 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Meta Platforms Inc (META)
[Meta Platforms Inc, META] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was poorer than the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 42.41% While, its Average True Range was 28.21.
Raw Stochastic average of Meta Platforms Inc (META) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 20.43%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 49.36% 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 77.94% that was higher than 43.92% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
