Meta stock price, live market quote, shares value, historical data, intraday chart, earnings per share and news.

The price of Meta (former Facebook) shares traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange fluctuated significantly but increased overall during the period from May 2012 to January 2025. After peaking at 379.38 U.S. dollars per share in August 2021, the price of Meta shares started to fluctuate and exceeded its previous peak in 2025. The share price stood at 689.18 U.S. dollars as of the end of January 2025. Substantial fluctuations in the last few years Meta's stock prices have fluctuated particularly after the rebranding announcement in late 2021. Following the announcement and through 2022, Meta's revenue remained rather stagnant, and its net income decreased considerably. Moreover, the tech giant announced one of the industry's largest layoffs in late 2022. As a result, the share price hit a low of 93.16 U.S. dollars in October 2022, the lowest value observed since 2016. However, Meta's share price has been steadily recovering since then. Shift in strategy for the world’s first social network Meta has shifted its focus to the metaverse, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR), with the rebranding in late 2021. As a result, Reality Labs was established as a dedicated business and research unit to focus on developing metaverse and AR/VR technologies. However, as of early 2023, Meta still relies mainly on advertising and its Family of Apps to generate most of its revenue, despite having made significant investments in virtual reality. Reality Labs generated 2.1 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2024 and has been consistently incurring operating losses since 2019.

Analysis of ‘Historical Stock Price of (FAANG + 5) companies’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/suddharshan/historical-stock-price-of-10-popular-companies on 28 January 2022.

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Context

The subject matter of this dataset contains the stock prices of the 10 popular companies ( Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Tesla, Walmart, Uber and Zoom)

Content

Within the dataset one will encounter the following: The date - "Date" The opening price of the stock - "Open" The high price of that day - "High" The low price of that day - "Low" The closed price of that day - "Close" The amount of stocks traded during that day - "Volume" The stock's closing price that has been amended to include any distributions/corporate actions that occurs before next days open - "Adj[usted] Close" Time period - 2015 to 2021 (day level)

Tasks - Exploratory Data Analysis - Tell a visualization story - Compare stock price growth between companies - Stock price prediction - Time series analysis

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During the fourth quarter of 2023, the number of daily active users on Facebook reached 2.1 billion, a minor increase on the previous quarter. When compared with the number of daily active users in the final quarter of 2022, the platform has gained around 100 million users. Facebook’s penetration rate for the United States in 2023 was 72.13 percent, up from 71.43 percent in 2022. The social network’s audience reach is projected to stand at 75.79 percent by 2027.

Most popular social media websites

As of May 2021, Facebook was the most used social media site in the United States, accounting for 71.8 percent of all social media visits. Ranking in second place was Pinterest with 12.4 percent, followed by Twitter and Instagram, with 9.15 percent and 3.82 percent, respectively. Although other sites remain popular, Facebook’s number of visits made it undoubtably the leading social media platform in terms of social media site visits.

For Generation Z and Millennials in the United States, Facebook was one of the least popular platforms used to connect with others. Gen Z and Millennials preferred video sharing platforms, specifically Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube.

Meta’s revenue

Facebook Inc was renamed as Meta in 2021, in a strategic step toward the metaverse. Meta Platforms is now the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp amongst others, together being known as Meta’s Family of Apps.

Meta’s annual revenue for 2021 was 117.92 billion U.S. dollars, up from 85.97 billion in 2020. Within a decade, the company has increased its annual revenue by approximately 114 billion U.S. dollars. In the most recent fiscal year, Meta’s Family of Apps were responsible for over 115 billion U.S. dollars’ worth of Meta’s revenue.

The largest social media IPO seen in the last 15 years was Facebook, which went public in May 2012 with a valuation of 104 billion U.S. dollars. Snapchat ranked second, with a valuation of 24 billion U.S. dollars in March 2017. Twitter – later known as X after its 2023 acquisition and subsequent delisting – went public in with a valuation of 18 billion U.S. dollars. Former U.S president Trump's social media app Truth Social went public on March 26, 2024, after merging with Digital World Acquisition Corp.

Digital IPOs in the U.S. The year 2021 was characterized by the highest number of IPOs recorded in the U.S. since 2000, with over a thousand companies entering the public market. During the first years of the COVD-19 pandemic, the digital and tech sectors enjoyed stellar development thanks to the increase in usage and inflated adoption trends of digital solutions among global users. In comparison, 2022 was characterized by an unusually quiet public market. Snap Inc and Meta, as well as other social media platforms, reported a loss in expected revenue driven by a slowing advertising spending trend.

While social video and streaming platform Rumble filed to go public via SPAC merger in September 2022, market volatility dragged IPO plans for others. At the end of 2023, the market appeared to be in recovery for digital companies. Fast-fashion brand Shein entered the U.S. public market in September, followed by Instacart in November.

Reddit’s IPO Reddit's entrance into the public market is expected to be the largest social media IPO since 2019, when Pinterest became a public company with a valuation of 10 billion U.S. dollars. Reddit, which is expected to go public in March 2024, is reportedly seeking a valuation of 6.5 million U.S. dollars. The company had previously reached a valuation of 10 billion U.S. dollars, after securing 410 million U.S. dollars in its Series F funding in August 2021. In February 2024, Reddit gave potential investors a peek into its financials, by releasing the company’s S1 registration statement: the company was not yet profitable in 2023, with a negative EBITDA of 70 billion U.S. dollars. Despite not having released a planned price for its stocks, Reddit invited some of its users to pre-register and grab the possibility of buying into Reddit.

Android maintained its position as the leading mobile operating system worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2024 with a market share of about 72.04 percent. Android's closest rival, Apple's iOS, had a market share of approximately 27.49 percent during the same period. The leading mobile operating systems Both unveiled in 2007, Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS have evolved through incremental updates introducing new features and capabilities. The latest version of iOS, iOS 18, was released in September 2024, while the most recent Android iteration, Android 15, was made available in September 2023. A key difference between the two systems concerns hardware - iOS is only available on Apple devices, whereas Android ships with devices from a range of manufacturers such as Samsung, Google and OnePlus. In addition, Apple has had far greater success in bringing its users up to date. As of February 2024, 66 percent of iOS users had iOS 17 installed, while in the same month only 13 percent of Android users ran the latest version. The rise of the smartphone From around 2010, the touchscreen smartphone revolution had a major impact on sales of basic feature phones, as the sales of smartphones increased from 139 million units in 2008 to 1.39 billion units in 2023. In 2020, smartphone sales decreased to 1.38 billion units due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Apple, Samsung, and lately also Xiaomi, were the big winners in this shift towards smartphones, with BlackBerry and Nokia among those unable to capitalize.