Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) Stock Keeps Buy Rating at Rosenblatt Securities

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reissued by analysts at Rosenblatt Securities in a research note issued on Tuesday, Benzinga reports. They currently have a $886.00 price objective on the social networking company’s stock. Rosenblatt Securities’ price target would suggest a potential upside of 25.60% from the stock’s current price.

A number of other analysts also recently issued reports on META. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft boosted their price objective on shares of Meta Platforms from $750.00 to $820.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, September 25th. Citizens Jmp lifted their price target on shares of Meta Platforms from $770.00 to $885.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, September 24th. Evercore boosted their price target on Meta Platforms from $820.00 to $860.00 in a research note on Tuesday, August 25th. Sanford C. Bernstein reiterated an “outperform” rating and issued a $800.00 price target (down from $850.00) on shares of Meta Platforms in a research note on Thursday, July 30th. Finally, Erste Group Bank raised Meta Platforms from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 7th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $811.24.

Meta Platforms Trading Down 0.5%

Shares of Meta Platforms stock opened at $705.44 on Tuesday. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $657.99 and a 200-day moving average of $627.42. The stock has a market cap of $1.80 trillion, a PE ratio of 26.57, a PEG ratio of 1.20 and a beta of 1.19. Meta Platforms has a 52-week low of $520.26 and a 52-week high of $779.82. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.32, a quick ratio of 2.23 and a current ratio of 2.23.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 29th. The social networking company reported $6.18 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $7.19 by ($1.01). Meta Platforms had a net margin of 29.83% and a return on equity of 33.18%. The business had revenue of $60.80 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $60.22 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $7.14 earnings per share. The company’s revenue was up 28.0% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Meta Platforms will post 28.81 EPS for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Meta Platforms news, insider Christopher Cox sold 40,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, September 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $712.76, for a total transaction of $28,510,400.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 184,516 shares in the company, valued at $131,515,624.16. This represents a 17.82% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CEO Mark Zuckerberg sold 27,474 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $777.44, for a total value of $21,359,386.56. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold 148,331 shares of company stock worth $101,233,569 over the last three months. Insiders own 13.53% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of Meta Platforms

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of META. Corient Private Wealth LP boosted its holdings in shares of Meta Platforms by 723.1% during the 2nd quarter. Corient Private Wealth LP now owns 8,801,764 shares of the social networking company’s stock valued at $4,957,946,000 after acquiring an additional 7,732,446 shares in the last quarter. Jupiter Topco LLC bought a new stake in Meta Platforms during the 2nd quarter worth $2,948,486,000. State Street Corp increased its holdings in Meta Platforms by 4.0% in the 2nd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 92,033,963 shares of the social networking company’s stock worth $51,841,811,000 after purchasing an additional 3,510,123 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE increased its holdings in Meta Platforms by 14.6% in the 1st quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 21,038,035 shares of the social networking company’s stock worth $12,036,491,000 after purchasing an additional 2,673,494 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Amundi increased its holdings in Meta Platforms by 18.1% in the 1st quarter. Amundi now owns 11,858,972 shares of the social networking company’s stock worth $6,784,873,000 after purchasing an additional 1,815,017 shares in the last quarter. 79.91% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

More Meta Platforms News

Here are the key news stories impacting Meta Platforms this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Early adoption of Meta’s Muse personal assistant is attracting investor interest. Analysts see Meta’s large user base as a significant advantage for eventually monetizing AI through advertising, commerce and agent-based services. Should You Buy Meta Stock Before the Huge Investor Update?
• Positive Sentiment: Meta’s core advertising business remains a key bullish argument. Strong ad growth and improved distribution scale have led some investors to view the stock as attractively valued relative to peers, while upcoming results could demonstrate whether AI is improving ad targeting and engagement. Accelerating Ad Business and Distribution Scale Create Compelling Value at Meta Platforms
• Neutral Sentiment: Investors will focus on quarterly revenue, advertising impressions and pricing, user trends, 2027 capital-expenditure guidance, and management’s explanation of how Muse and other AI projects will become meaningful businesses. Meta and Tesla’s reports are also viewed as an important test of broader confidence in the AI investment cycle. Meta’s AI spending, Muse assistant adoption in focus for quarterly results
• Negative Sentiment: Rising AI infrastructure spending, elevated valuation and possible margin compression are weighing on sentiment, particularly after recent weakness in semiconductor and other AI stocks. Investors want evidence that Meta’s spending will translate into earnings rather than remain a cost burden. Should You Buy, Sell, or Hold META Stock Before Q3 Earnings Release?
• Negative Sentiment: Privacy and regulatory concerns remain an additional risk as Meta and other companies deploy always-listening AI devices. Separately, Meta apologized after suspending the “No Kings” Instagram account, highlighting ongoing content-moderation and reputational issues. Always on, always listening: New AI devices are pushing legal limits

Meta Platforms Company Profile

Meta Platforms, Inc is a technology company that develops social networking, messaging, virtual and augmented reality, and artificial intelligence products. The company’s principal platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads, which enable users to connect, communicate, share content, and discover products and services.

Meta also operates Reality Labs, its division focused on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies. Reality Labs develops products such as Meta Quest virtual reality headsets and related software and experiences, along with research and hardware intended to support immersive computing.