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$578.85
▼ -$20.27(-3.38%)4:00 PM ET - vs previous closeiQuote as of Aug 12, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
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-7.9%Price is materially below the 200-day average.
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bearishLatest catalyst source: Benzinga.
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BenzingaWhat's Going On with the Drop in Meta Stock?
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As of Aug 12, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT, Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) traded at $578.85, a -3.38% move versus the prior close, ranging between $578.25 and $604.50 intraday, and on volume of 15.85M shares. The stock has traded between $520.26 and $796.25 over the past 52 weeks, carries a market capitalization of $1.47T, trades at 21.81x trailing earnings, and yields 0.3% in dividends. Sell-side analysts rate META Buy across 71 ratings and carry an average price target of $754.14 (+30.28% implied versus the last quote). META's record close stands at $796.25, set on Aug 15, 2025.
Buy analyst tone. Latest catalyst: What's Going On with the Drop in Meta Stock? (Benzinga). TECHi maps META to 2 AI leaders and 1 major AI products, making the AI-infrastructure angle visible beside the quote. Fairly valued relative to growth.
Balanced watch. Quality trend (77/100) is the strongest signal; momentum setup (44/100) is the main constraint. Model confidence is 59/100 — 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 +367.5% total; yesterday -3.4%. Comparable past signals have verified against subsequent prices 16.3% 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 | $1.64T |
| Price / sales | 6.77 |
| Price / book | 5.91 |
| Operating margin | 38.08% |
| Return on assets | 15.13% |
| EPS (TTM) | $26.54 |
| Beta (5Y) | 1.24 |
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