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$595.19
▼ -$10.91(-1.80%)4:00 PM ET - vs previous closeiQuote as of Jul 24, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
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+16.9%Forward P/E sits above trailing — consensus expects earnings to fall from here.
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-6.6%Price is materially below the 200-day average.
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YahooMeta (META) Launches Lightspeed Tie Up To Track In Store Sales From Ads
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As of Jul 24, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT, Meta Platforms Inc (META) traded at $595.19, a -1.80% move versus the prior close, ranging between $594.60 and $609.98 intraday, and on volume of 11.31M shares. The stock has traded between $520.26 and $796.25 over the past 52 weeks, carries a market capitalization of $1.51T, trades at 21.64x trailing earnings, and yields 0.3% in dividends. Sell-side analysts rate META Buy across 71 ratings and carry an average price target of $825.84 (+38.75% implied versus the last quote). META's record close stands at $796.25, set on Aug 15, 2025.
Buy analyst tone. Latest catalyst: Meta (META) Launches Lightspeed Tie Up To Track In Store Sales From Ads (Yahoo). 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 (80/100) is the strongest signal; news sentiment (33/100) is the main constraint. Model confidence is 54/100 — 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 +396.2% total; yesterday -1.8%. Comparable past signals have verified against subsequent prices 15.7% of the time.
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Roadmap, leadership, human-impact, and social/developer traction proxy durable moat until issuer-level software recurring revenue is available.
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 | $1.70T |
| Price / sales | 7.63 |
| Price / book | 6.72 |
| Operating margin | 41.21% |
| Return on assets | 17.86% |
| EPS (TTM) | $27.50 |
| Beta (5Y) | 1.25 |
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