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$589.85
▼ -$5.12(-0.86%)4:00 PM ET - vs previous closeiQuote as of Aug 14, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
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+13.8%Forward P/E sits above trailing — consensus expects earnings to fall from here.
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-5.9%Price is materially below the 200-day average.
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BenzingaBill Ackman Exits Alphabet, Raises Bets on Microsoft & Meta
The playbook is derived from quote, analyst, financial, news, and trend snapshots. It is a research workflow aid, not a buy or sell recommendation.
As of Aug 14, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT, Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) traded at $589.85, a -0.86% move versus the prior close, ranging between $589.29 and $601.86 intraday, and on volume of 8.41M shares. The stock has traded between $520.26 and $790.80 over the past 52 weeks, carries a market capitalization of $1.5T, trades at 22.22x trailing earnings, and yields 0.4% in dividends. Sell-side analysts rate META Buy across 71 ratings and carry an average price target of $723.69 (+22.69% implied versus the last quote). META's record close stands at $796.25, set on Aug 15, 2025.
Buy analyst tone. Latest catalyst: Bill Ackman Exits Alphabet, Raises Bets on Microsoft & Meta (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. Risk brake (75/100) is the strongest signal; news sentiment (35/100) is the main constraint. Model confidence is 58/100 — 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 +376.5% total; yesterday -0.9%. Comparable past signals have verified against subsequent prices 16.5% 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 | $1.61T |
| Price / sales | 6.63 |
| Price / book | 5.79 |
| Operating margin | 38.08% |
| Return on assets | 15.13% |
| EPS (TTM) | $26.54 |
| Beta (5Y) | 1.24 |
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