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$556.71
▲ +$17.68(+3.28%)4:00 PM ET - vs previous closeiQuote as of Jul 31, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
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3.4%$48.25B free-cash-flow base.
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-11.2%Forward P/E sits below trailing — estimates imply earnings growing into the multiple.
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-12.1%Price is materially below the 200-day average.
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YahooWhy Retail Traders Couldn’t Take Their Eyes Off These Stocks Last Week: AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, META, TSLA
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As of Jul 31, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT, Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) traded at $556.71, a +3.28% move versus the prior close, ranging between $540.24 and $558.33 intraday, and on volume of 24.26M shares. The stock has traded between $520.26 and $796.25 over the past 52 weeks, carries a market capitalization of $1.42T, trades at 20.96x trailing earnings, and yields 0.4% in dividends. Sell-side analysts rate META Buy across 71 ratings and carry an average price target of $768.58 (+38.06% implied versus the last quote). META's record close stands at $796.25, set on Aug 15, 2025.
Buy analyst tone. Latest catalyst: Why Retail Traders Couldn’t Take Their Eyes Off These Stocks Last Week: AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, META, TSLA (Yahoo). TECHi maps META to 2 AI leaders and 1 major AI products, making the AI-infrastructure angle visible beside the quote. Attractive growth-adjusted valuation.
Balanced watch. Quality trend (76/100) is the strongest signal; momentum setup (43/100) is the main constraint. Model confidence is 42/100 — some inputs are unavailable, so treat this as a directional research screen rather than a forecast. Long-term secular context is tracked separately: 10 Years +353.1% total; yesterday +3.3%. Comparable past signals have verified against subsequent prices 15.8% of the time.
Expected-return math is scaled by beta and realized volatility before confidence is applied.
Short-horizon expected moves are volume-weighted so thin moves get less credit than confirmed tape.
Sector momentum is included beside the broader market regime.
Evergreen business strategy points migrated from /meta-stock/ for the quote page research layer.
The Meta pillar content is now integrated into /quote/META/: ad dominance, Llama, AI infrastructure spending, legal risk, and smart-glasses optionality.
Meta is a social advertising, messaging, AI, and mixed-reality company. The stock thesis weighs one of the strongest ad businesses in the world against AI capex, social-media legal exposure, Reality Labs losses, and the Llama ecosystem.
| Enterprise value | $1.44T |
| Price / sales | 6.21 |
| Price / book | 5.43 |
| Operating margin | 30.90% |
| Return on assets | 14.60% |
| EPS (TTM) | $26.56 |
| Beta (5Y) | 1.25 |
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