Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) kicked off on Tuesday, up 1.10% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $658.69. Over the past 52 weeks, META has traded in a range of $479.80-$796.25.
Annual sales at Communication Services sector company grew by 29.99% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -4.04%. With a float of $2.18 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $2.18 billion.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) Insider Updates
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Internet Content & Information Industry. The insider ownership of Meta Platforms Inc is 13.68%, while institutional ownership is 67.54%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 30 ’25, was worth 341,860. In this transaction Chief Legal Officer of this company sold 519 shares at a rate of $658.69, taking the stock ownership to the 28,658 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Dec 29 ’25, when Company’s Chief Operating Officer sold 517 for $658.14, making the entire transaction worth $340,258. This insider now owns 12,200 shares in total.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) Performance Highlights and Predictions
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 12/31/2024, the organization reported 8.02 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 6.76) by 1.26. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 6.32 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -4.04% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.08% 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
Take a look at Meta Platforms Inc’s (META) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.98. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 8.86. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 37.43.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 22.63, a number that is poised to hit 8.19 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 29.81 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Meta Platforms Inc (META)
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) saw its 5-day average volume 7.79 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 15.53 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 63.40%.
During the past 100 days, Meta Platforms Inc’s (META) raw stochastic average was set at 39.40%, which indicates a significant increase from 37.77% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 16.36 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 15.51 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $655.31, while its 200-day Moving Average is $672.94. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $672.83 in the near term. At $679.72, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $687.21. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $658.45, it is likely to go to the next support level at $650.96. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $644.07.
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 1678.55 billion has total of 2,520,528K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 164,501 M in contrast with the sum of 62,360 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 51,242 M and last quarter income was 2,709 M.
