Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) does about 11.83M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 17585314 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 1342.57B USD. Its current market price is $554.08, marking a decrease of -4.00% compared to the previous close of $577.16. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $602.95 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $313.66. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $780 and a low of $105.
Meta Platforms Inc (META) has a 20-day trading average at $576.27 and the current price is -8.11% off the 52-week high compared with 76.65% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $568.11 and its 200-day simple moving average is $511.10. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.43%, which decreases to 2.33% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 39.69 to suggest the stock is neutral.
51 analysts observing the Meta Platforms Inc (META) stock have set the 12-month price targets for the company’s shares at between $105 and $780. The consensus objective for the share price is $654.18, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 15.3% over the period. The median price target is -2.61% away from the current levels at $540.
FactSet Research has provided data showing that 51 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 1 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 2 advise that it is a overweight. 40 analysts have rated it as a buy and 8 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on October 31, 2024 when Pivotal Research Group reiterated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of between $780 and $800.
The current price level is -3.85%, -2.47%, and 8.41% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the META price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Meta Platforms Inc (META) stock is down -5.98% over the week and -3.96% over the past month. Its price is 56.54% year-to-date and 66.54% over the past year.
Its 12-month price target is $540. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 15.3 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $105, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $780.
The company has a return on investment of 26.25% and return on equity of 36.13%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 26.09 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 21.87. The beta has a value of 1.21. Price to book ratio is 8.50 and price to sales ratio is 8.59.
