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| Factor | Score | Distribution | Value | Avg | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Valuation | 43 | 22.6x | 20.1x | Near average | |
Growth | 64 | 26.2% | 5.6% | Near average | |
Quality | 85 | 34.4% | 7.6% | Above average | |
Safety | 80 | 0.2x | 0.4x | Above average | |
Capital Return | 23 | 0.34% | 2.19% | Below average | |
Momentum | 42 | — | — | Near average | |
Sentiment | 53 | — | — | Near average |
This section combines price targets, revision history, analyst coverage changes, and an AI summary of what changed on the Street.
Recent analyst revisions for Meta stock have shown a cautiously positive trend, with the average price target rising by 0.52% over the past 30 days to reach $826.11, representing a significant premium compared to the current price ($622.98). Although the consensus has remained stable in the last 24 hours, there is a notable Analyst Dispersion between a low of $700 and an ambitious high of $910, reflecting varying expectations regarding the company's ability to achieve sustainable earnings growth.
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Meta Platforms, Inc. (known as META and listed on NASDAQ) is the major innovative force behind the world's most widespread social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue by monetizing user engagement through targeted digital advertising, alongside its ambitious investment in the hardware and virtual/augmented reality sector through the Reality Labs segment, and the development of super-AI infrastructure to provide personalized AI agents for consumers and businesses.
In the first quarter of 2026, Meta achieved strong financial results; total revenue reached $56.3 billion, recording a 33% growth year-over-year (or 29% in constant currency), while gross profit reached $46.1 billion. The company recorded a historic net income of $26.8 billion, with earnings per share (EPS) of $10.44, benefiting from a non-cash tax benefit of $8.03 billion (without this benefit, net income would have been $18.7 billion with an EPS of $7.31). The operating margin for the quarter reached 41% with free cash flows of $12.4 billion.
On the operational and segment performance side, Family of Apps (FoA) revenue reached approximately $55.9 billion (an increase of 33%), of which advertising revenue accounted for $55 billion, driven by a 19% increase in ad impressions and a 12% increase in the average price per ad. In contrast, the Reality Labs segment recorded revenue of $402 million, a decrease of 2% due to lower sales of Quest headsets, which was partially offset by strong revenue growth from AI smart glasses.
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Meta stock is currently trading at $632.51, which makes it trade significantly below the analysts' average target price of $824.22. The analyst consensus reflects a strong 'Buy' recommendation with the highest price target set at $910 and the lowest target at $700, indicating great optimism about the company's ability to continue growing supported by the AI boom.
Meta achieved revenue of $56.3 billion in the first quarter of 2026, an increase of 33% year-over-year. Net income for the quarter reached $26.8 billion, with earnings per share of $10.44, noting that these results included a tax benefit of $8.03 billion, without which net income would have been $18.7 billion with an EPS of $7.31.
The company raised its capital expenditure forecast for 2026 to be in the range of $125 billion to $145 billion, up from the previous forecast of $115 billion to $135 billion. This increase is mainly due to rising prices of computing components, especially memory prices, in addition to the costs of building additional data centers to support future AI capabilities.
Improvements to recommendation algorithms in the first quarter of 2026 led to a 10% increase in time spent on Instagram Reels, and an 8% increase in video views on Facebook globally. AI technologies also enabled automatic video translation and dubbing, with more than half a billion users on both Facebook and Instagram now watching AI-translated videos weekly.
Meta faces ongoing legal and regulatory pressures, as the US Supreme Court opened the door to sue the company over the psychological impact of the Instagram app on teenagers. In addition, the state of Texas filed a lawsuit against Meta and WhatsApp alleging that they misled users regarding encryption features, alongside other trials scheduled this year in the US and the European Union that could lead to material financial losses.
Business AI conversations experienced massive growth; the number of weekly conversations rose to more than 10 million by the first quarter of 2026, compared to only 1 million at the beginning of this year. The company expanded this service to include small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America, Indonesia, and the Asia-Pacific region.