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Meta's Facebook is the largest social network in the world, with nearly 3 billion monthly active users. The growth in users and user engagement, along with the valuable data that they generate, makes Meta’s platforms attractive to advertisers. The combination of these valuable assets and our expectation that advertisers will continue shift their spending online bodes well for the firm’s top-line growth and cash flow.
Meta is the world’s largest online social network, with 3.8 billion family of apps monthly active users. Users engage with each other in different ways, exchanging messages and sharing news events, photos, and videos. The firm’s ecosystem consists mainly of the Facebook app, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and many features surrounding these products. Users can access Facebook on mobile devices and desktops. Advertising revenue represents more than 90% of the firm’s total revenue, with more than 45% coming from the U.S. and Canada and over 20% from Europe.
Morningstar analysts hand-select direct competitors or comparable companies to provide context on the strength and durability of META’s competitive advantage.
Meta Platforms Inc Class A
XNAS: META
| Alphabet Inc Class A
XNAS: GOOGL
| Verizon Communications Inc
XNYS: VZ
| Snap Inc Class A
XNYS: SNAP
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Price
| 264.95 | 122.23 | 35.47 | 10.09 |
Currency
| USD | USD | USD | USD |
Change
| +$0.37 (0.14%) | +$0.09 (0.07%) | +$0.04 (0.11%) | +$0.05 (0.50%) |
Market Cap
| 679.00 Bil | 1.55 Tril | 148.97 Bil | 16.16 Bil |
Industry
| Internet Content & Information | Internet Content & Information | Telecom Services | Internet Content & Information |
Sector
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Communication Services
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Communication Services
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Communication Services
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Communication Services
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No. META does not currently have a forward dividend yield.
Dividend yield allows investors, particularly those interested in dividend-paying stocks,
to compare the relationship between a stock’s price and how it rewards stockholders through dividends.
The formula for calculating dividend yield is to divide the annual dividend paid per share by the stock price.
Learn more about dividend yield.
META’s market cap is 679.00 Bil.
Market capitalization is calculated by taking a company’s share price and multiplying it by the total number of shares.
It’s often used to measure a company’s size. In the Morningstar Style Box, large-cap names account for the
largest 70% of U.S. stocks, mid-cap names account for the largest 70–90%, and small-cap names are the remaining 10% of companies.
Learn more about market capitalization.
META’s stock style is Large Core.
Style is an investment factor that has a meaningful impact on investment risk and returns.
Style is calculated by combining value and growth scores, which are first individually calculated.
High-growth stocks tend to represent the technology, healthcare, and communications sectors. They rarely distribute dividends to shareholders, opting for reinvestment in their businesses. More value-oriented stocks tend to represent financial services, utilities, and energy stocks. These are established companies that reliably pay dividends.
Learn more about style.
META’s price/sales is 6.02.
Price/sales represents the amount an investor is willing to pay for a dollar generated from
a particular company’s sales or revenues.
META’s price/forward earnings is 32.83.
Forward P/E gives some indication of how cheap or expensive a stock is compared with consensus earnings estimates.
The lower the Forward P/E, the cheaper the stock.
META’s price/book is 5.45.
Price/book ratio can tell investors approximately how much they’re paying for a company’s assets,
based on historical, rather than current, valuations. Historical valuations generally do not reflect
a company’s current market value. Value investors frequently look for companies that have low price/book ratios.
See META’s valuation ratios compared to the Market Index.
META’s beta can be found in Trading Information at the top of this page.
A stock’s beta measures how closely tied its price movements have been to the performance of the overall market.
Compare META’s historical performance against its industry peers and the overall market.
