Currently, there are 2.18B common shares owned by the public and among those 2.17B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 6.70% and -10.87% over the past three months. META shares are trading 9.21% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 35.30% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $442.65 and touched a high of $740.91 over the same period. META has an average intraday trading volume of 18.24 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 15.44%, 11.09%, and 9.60% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) shares accounts for 68.51% of the company’s 2.18B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $1607.62B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.23. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 24.94, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $25.64. The company has a PEG of 2.48 and a Quick Ratio of 2.66 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.27. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.51% over the week and 3.23% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Meta Platforms Inc (META) will achieve an EPS of 5.81 for the current quarter, 5.87 for the next quarter and 28.35 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 5.14 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 5.14. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 5.16 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 6.79%, and 10.48% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 10.07% over the next five years, compared to 29.99% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the META, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Wedbush stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on May 01, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $680-$750. UBS coverage for the Meta Platforms Inc (META) stock in a research note released on May 01, 2025 offered a Buy rating with a price target of $683. Truist was of a view on May 01, 2025 that the stock is Buy, while Stifel gave the stock Buy rating on May 01, 2025, issuing a price target of $628- $655. Roth Capital on their part issued Buy rating on May 01, 2025.
