Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) price on Wednesday, March 27, fall -0.41% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $493.86.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $495.89. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.21 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 33.15. Turning to its 52-week performance, $523.57 and $197.90 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, META moved 1.40% over the past month.
Meta Platforms Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $1259.05 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for Apr 24, 2024 – Apr 29, 2024. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.50, with its dividend yield at 0.10%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $4.27, which has seen fiscal year 2024 EPS growth forecast to increase to $19.93 and about $23.03 for fiscal year 2025. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be 34.00% for 2024 and 15.60% for the next financial year.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $36.05 billion for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $34.72 billion and $36.9 billion respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 25.90% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2024 to grow to $158.25 billion, representing a 17.30% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was 1 upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that META is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 1.28, with META’s current price about -0.72% and 7.31% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 53.60, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.94% and 2.49% in the 30-day chart. Further, Meta Platforms Inc (META) has a beta value of 1.21, and an average true range (ATR) of 13.06.
If we refocus on Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 12.35 million over the past 10 days and 17.86 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 2.21 billion shares.
The 13.98% of Meta Platforms Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 67.42% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 27.73 million on Feb 29, 2024, giving us a short ratio of 1.22. The data shows that as of Feb 29, 2024 short interest in Meta Platforms Inc (META) stood at 1.09% of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 27.89 million registered in Jan 31, 2024. Current price change has pushed the stock 39.52% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the META stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
