NASDAQ · Communication Services
$673.31
▲ +$3.07(+0.46%)4:00 PM ET - vs previous closeiQuote as of Sep 16, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
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Evidence
88/100
Strong evidence
Session
+0.46%
vs 670.24 prior close
52-week range
57%
of the 520.26–790.8 range
Consensus target
+12.6%
to 758.28 consensus
TECHi stance
Balanced watch
Model confidence 54/100 · 68/76 inputs
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Latest 1D session
1Y · daily bars · USD · Live $673.31 · 254 pts
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Entry timing, risk check, and catalyst scan
What has to keep working for US investors to stay interested.
Trend support
+8.0%Current price is above the 200-day average.
Cash yield
2.4%$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
YahooTTD Stock In Focus: Morningstar Sees Market Share Shrinking As Amazon, Google And Meta Ramp Up Ad Competition
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Upcoming events
META reports on Oct 27, 2026 during the AMC session.
Countdown
40 days out
As of Sep 16, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT, Meta Platforms (META) traded at $673.31, a +0.46% move versus the prior close, ranging between $671.91 and $685.31 intraday, and on volume of 17.17M shares. The stock has traded between $520.26 and $790.80 over the past 52 weeks, carries a market capitalization of $1.72T, trades at 25.38x trailing earnings, and yields 0.3% in dividends. Sell-side analysts rate META Buy across 71 ratings and carry an average price target of $758.28 (+12.62% implied versus the last quote). META's record close stands at $796.25, set on Aug 15, 2025.
Buy analyst tone. Latest catalyst: TTD Stock In Focus: Morningstar Sees Market Share Shrinking As Amazon, Google And Meta Ramp Up Ad Competition (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.
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 | $1.78T |
| Price / sales | 7.51 |
| Price / book | 6.57 |
| Operating margin | 38.08% |
| Return on assets | 15.13% |
| EPS (TTM) | $26.53 |
| Beta (5Y) | 1.24 |
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