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Meta is the largest social media company in the world, boasting close to 4 billion monthly active users worldwide. The firm's "Family of Apps," its core business, consists of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. End users can leverage these applications for a variety of different purposes, from keeping in touch with friends to following celebrities and running digital businesses for free. Meta packages customer data, gleaned from its application ecosystem and sells ads to digital advertisers. While the firm has been investing heavily in its Reality Labs business, it remains a very small part of Meta's overall sales.
Meta Platforms - Class A trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol META.
As of October 8, 2026, META stock price declined to $720.89 with 10,984,349 million shares trading.
META has a beta of 2.08, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. META has a correlation of 0.33 to the broad based SPY ETF.
META has a market cap of $1.84 trillion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.
Last quarter Meta Platforms - Class A reported $61 billion in Revenue and $6.18 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $581 million and missed earnings estimates by -$1.00.
In the last 3 years, META traded as high as $796.25 and as low as $279.40.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that META belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, QQQ.
META has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +0.7% while the SPY ETF gained +16.1%. However, in the short term, META had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +19.6% vs +4.1% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, META shares have been beat by the market, returning -7.3% compared to an SPY return of +0.9%.
META support price is $703.72 and resistance is $738.90 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that META shares will trade within this expected range on the day.