Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) is 16.63% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $442.65 and a high of $740.91 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The META stock was last observed hovering at around $693.36 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -10.49%.
Currently trading at $682.87, the stock is 2.92% and 13.64% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 9.24 million and changing -1.51% at the moment leaves the stock 13.52% off its SMA200. META registered 34.56% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 10.26%.
The stock witnessed a 3.57% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 12.39%, and is -2.13% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.23% over the week and 1.44% over the month.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) has around 74067 employees, a market worth around $1716.84B and $170.36B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 26.64 and Fwd P/E is 24.14. Profit margin for the company is 39.11%. Distance from 52-week low is 54.27% and -7.83% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (28.65%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 7.16% this year.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) Top Institutional Holders
The shares outstanding are 2.18B, and float is at 2.17B with Short Float at 1.43%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 189.31 million shares valued at $95.45 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 7.4707% of the META Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 161.11 million shares valued at $81.23 billion to account for 6.3579 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 138.46 million shares representing 5.4639% and valued at over $69.81 billion, while STATE STREET CORP holds 3.4041 of the shares totaling 86.26 million with a market value of $43.49 billion.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Newstead Jennifer, the company’s Chief Legal Officer. SEC filings show that Newstead Jennifer sold 519 shares of the company’s common stock on Jun 10 ’25 at a price of $701.00 per share for a total of $0.36 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 29183.0 shares.
Meta Platforms Inc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Jun 11 ’25 that Zuckerberg Mark (COB and CEO) sold a total of 7,802 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Jun 11 ’25 and was made at $701.96 per share for $5.48 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 0.11 million shares of the META stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on Jun 10 ’25, Zuckerberg Mark (COB and CEO) disposed off 13,793 shares at an average price of $701.13 for $9.67 million. The insider now directly holds 118,279 shares of Meta Platforms Inc (META).
