Meta Platforms, Inc.

META · Communication Services

$717.98
-0.31% today

What a holder would want to know before buying META: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $525.72 · Mar 2026High $777.59 · Sep 2026

Today’s price is 37% above the lowest point of the past year and 8% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 90% of days and more expensive on 10%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 97% of days.

14% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 5 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 77%; the longest took 2.4 years to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 9% below the Aug 2025 peak.

Feb 2025
−34%back in 4 months
Sep 2021
−77%back in 2.4 years
Jan 2020
−35%back in 4 months
Jul 2018
−43%back in 18 months
Feb 2018
−21%back in 4 months
What you own

Meta Platforms, Inc. · Communication Services · Internet Content & Information · a mega-cap worth $1.83T

Meta Platforms, Inc. engages in the development of products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality (VR) headsets, and AI glasses in…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $200.97B in 2025, with $60.46B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 30 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$90.26B
Debt
$112.32B
Free cash flow / yr
$21.55B

Would need about 5.2 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $27 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $21 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 0.29% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Sep 21.

What others are doing

63 analysts: 55 say buy, 7 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $799.34 (range $580.00–$1,050.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 38 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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