Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -0.22% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $501.23.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $502.31, falling within a range of $498.5029 and $506.3899. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.279 whereas the PE ratio is 20.95 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $740.91, and the low was $414.50. On the whole, META has fluctuated by -14.18% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Meta Platforms Inc currently standing at about $1269.95 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-28. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.02, with its dividend yield at 0.40%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 186.64B, with a low estimate of 40.23B and a high estimate of 42.72B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 41.38B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that META’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.97, with the price of META currently trading nearly -10.28% and -18.99% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 35.38, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 5.05% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.19%. Furthermore, Meta Platforms Inc (META)’s beta value is 1.26, and its average true range (ATR) is 29.96.
A comparison of Meta Platforms Inc (META) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. META showed an intraday change of -0.22% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 0.29%%.
Data on historical trading for Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 27.14 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 18.54 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 2.19 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 13.72% of Meta Platforms Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 67.78% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 27.19 million shares as on 2025-03-31, resulting in a short ratio of 1.57. According to the data, the short interest in Meta Platforms Inc (META) stood at 124.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-31; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-28 reached 23.94 million. The stock has fallen by -14.39% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the META stock heading into the next quarter.
