NASDAQ · Communication Services
$653.69
▲ +$40.21(+6.55%)4:00 PM ET - vs previous closeiQuote as of Sep 9, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
After-hours NASDAQ quote as of Sep 9, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT. Extended-hours prices can sit outside the regular-session range.
Market data source
Evidence
88/100
Strong evidence
Session
+6.55%
vs 613.48 prior close
52-week range
49%
of the 520.26–790.8 range
Consensus target
+15.4%
to 754.15 consensus
TECHi stance
Balanced watch
Model confidence 66/100 · 68/76 inputs
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Investor playbook
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Entry timing, risk check, and catalyst scan
What has to keep working for US investors to stay interested.
Trend support
+5.1%Current price is above the 200-day average.
Cash yield
2.5%$40.98B free-cash-flow base.
Where the dashboard says the thesis can break or get crowded.
Estimate cuts
-41 net45 EPS cuts vs 4 increases in 30 days.
Catalysts and positioning checks that are not duplicate live-pulse metrics.
Latest catalyst
YahooApple, ServiceTitan, Meta, Micron, Casey’s, Jersey Mike’s, and More Stocks That Explain Today’s Market
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Upcoming events
META reports on Oct 27, 2026 during the AMC session.
Countdown
48 days out
As of Sep 9, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT, Meta Platforms (META) traded at $653.69, a +6.55% move versus the prior close, ranging between $638.56 and $657.86 intraday, and on volume of 35.27M shares. The stock has traded between $520.26 and $790.80 over the past 52 weeks, carries a market capitalization of $1.66T, trades at 24.60x trailing earnings, and yields 0.3% in dividends. Sell-side analysts rate META Buy across 71 ratings and carry an average price target of $754.15 (+15.37% implied versus the last quote). META's record close stands at $796.25, set on Aug 15, 2025.
Buy analyst tone. Latest catalyst: Apple, ServiceTitan, Meta, Micron, Casey’s, Jersey Mike’s, and More Stocks That Explain Today’s Market (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. Risk brake (78/100) is the strongest signal; news sentiment (42/100) is the main constraint. Model confidence is 66/100 — some inputs are unavailable, so treat this as a directional research screen rather than a forecast. Long-term secular context is tracked separately: Last week +13% total; yesterday +6.6%. Comparable past signals have verified against subsequent prices 16.1% 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.
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 | $1.73T |
| Price / sales | 7.29 |
| Price / book | 6.37 |
| Operating margin | 38.08% |
| Return on assets | 15.13% |
| EPS (TTM) | $26.56 |
| Beta (5Y) | 1.24 |
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