Meta Platforms, Inc. (META)

Last Closing Price: 682.87 (2025-06-13)

Company Description

Meta Platforms is the world's largest social media platform. The company's portfolio offering evolved from a single Facebook app to multiple apps like photo and video sharing app Instagram and WhatsApp messaging app owing to acquisitions. Along with in-house developed Messenger, these apps now form Meta's family of products used by billions of people on a monthly basis. Meta uses metrics like daily active users (DAUs) and monthly active users (MAUs) to measure Facebook's user base. Marketers buy ads that can appear on multiple platforms including Meta, Instagram, Messenger and third-party applications and websites. Meta, thanks to its huge user base gained a significant market share in the advertising space wherein it faces tough competition from Google, Twitter, Amazon and Snapchat-parent Snap. Meta also faces significant competition from the likes of Apple (messaging), YouTube (advertising and video), Bytedance (social media) and Tencent (messaging and social media).

Financials, Fundamental Metrics & Ratios
Revenue (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $164.50B
Net Income (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $62.36B
PE Ratio (Current Year Earnings Estimate) 27.16
PE Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) 26.63
PEG Ratio (Long Term Growth Estimate) 1.69
Price to Sales Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) 10.08
Price to Book Ratio (Most Recent Quarterly Book Value per Share) 9.28
Price to Cash Ratio (Most Recent Annual Cash Flow per Share) 22.22
Pre-Tax Margin (Trailing 12 Months) 43.94%
Net Margin (Trailing 12 Months) 39.11%
Return on Equity (Trailing 12 Months) 38.69%
Return on Assets (Trailing 12 Months) 25.56%
Current Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 2.66
Quick Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 2.66
Debt to Common Equity (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 0.16
Inventory Turnover (Trailing 12 Months) --
Book Value per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) $72.08
Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) $6.43
Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $23.86
Diluted Earnings per Share (Trailing 12 Months) $25.64
Stock
Exchange NASDAQ
Sector Communication Services
Industry Internet Content & Information
Common Shares Outstanding 2.51B
Free Float 2.17B
Market Capitalization $1716.96B
Average Volume (Last 20 Days) 10.21M
Beta (Past 60 Months) 1.26
Percentage Held By Insiders (Latest Annual Proxy Report) 13.61%
Percentage Held By Institutions (Latest 13F Reports) 79.91%
Annual Dividend (Based on Last Quarter) $2.10
Dividend Yield (Based on Last Quarter) 0.31%