The trading price of Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) closed higher on Tuesday, January 21, and closing at $616.46, 0.60% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $609.0082 and $621.5. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 29.03, while its 5Y monthly beta was 1.215. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $638.40 and a 52-week low of $370.95. Over the past month, the stock has lost -0.48% in value.
Meta Platforms Inc, whose market valuation is $1555.95 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in February. The dividend yield on the company stock is 0.32%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 2.00. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable.
On the technical side, indicators suggest META has a 100% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned META a recommendation rating is 51. Out of them, 8 rate it a Hold, while 40 recommend Buy, whereas 2 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Meta Platforms Inc (META) as Underweight, while 1 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 1.71, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that META’s price is currently 1.83% off the SMA20 and 3.31% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 54.52, and weekly volatility stands at 2.43%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 2.75%. Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.19, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 17.48. With analysts defining $550-$780 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $630 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 10.78% off the estimated low and -26.53% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if META’s share price rises to $630, which is the median consensus price. At that level, META’s share price would be -2.2% below current price.
To see how Meta Platforms Inc stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: META stock’s performance was 0.60% in the latest trading, and 63.90% in the past year. Meta Platforms Inc has a P/E ratio of 29.03.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) indicates that the 3-month average is 12.60 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 13.29.
Currently, records show that 2.18 billion of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 13.77% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 67.20%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-12-31, stood at 25.19 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 2.01 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 116.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in December were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 30.45 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 5.29% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
