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 -1.10% and 42.17% over the past three months. META shares are trading 54.32% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 21.77% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $442.65 and touched a high of $747.90 over the same period. META has an average intraday trading volume of 13.31 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 -0.55%, 4.31%, and 14.43% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) shares accounts for 68.08% of the company’s 2.18B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $1792.50B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.27. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 27.81, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $25.64. The company has a PEG of 2.72 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 1.78% over the week and 1.97% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 7.92%, and 10.54% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 10.24% 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. Canaccord Genuity stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on July 16, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $825-$850. UBS was of a view on June 26, 2025 that the stock is Buy, while Citigroup gave the stock Buy rating on June 24, 2025, issuing a price target of $690- $803. Wedbush on their part issued Outperform rating on May 01, 2025.
