Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for META in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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Meta Platforms (META) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Nov 4 close
$630.00+8.97 (+1.4%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryNov 4 closeThis week's news centers on Meta's AI and product pipeline alongside legal and portfolio-flow developments. The company has moved away from fruit-themed codenames for its AI models as it positions its technology more seriously, and it has acquired AI coding startup Conductor, which lets users deploy multiple agents into parallel workspaces. Separately, a federal judge has certified four classes of Facebook users in a lawsuit alleging Meta's Pixel tracking code collected private health information without consent. Meta also drew record orders for its debut euro bond sale, and the State Street Communication Services SPDR ETF sold $38.1 million of Meta shares on 2 November as part of a broader portfolio reduction.
Shares closed at $630.00, up 1.4%, sitting between the 50-day average of $673.56 and the 200-day average of $632.17, with the stock down 14.7% over one month but up 6.8% over three months. The GekkoIndex reads 65.5, placing it in the Accumulation zone, down from a higher reading five days prior. Price sits 4.1% above Gekko Fair Value of $605.25.
Over the next 20 trading days, the next earnings date falls outside that window, on 27 January 2027. Congress trades over the past 90 days show 3 buys and 0 sells, while the past 30 days recorded 5 unusual options signals, with call premium of $251.6 million against put premium of $187.9 million. Seasonality over 5 years shows an average 20-day return of 7.9%, positive in 4 of those years.
Written by AI from the Nov 4, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
Meta Platforms price vs fair value
Close $630.00200-day averageGekko Fair Value $605.25
Meta Platforms quick facts
- Market cap
- $1.40T
- P/E ratio
- 20.7
- Forward P/E
- 17.9
- EPS, TTM
- $29.31
- Revenue, TTM
- $241.6B
- Profit margin
- 31.1%
- Dividend yield
- 0.34%
- Beta
- 1.28
- Volume
- 32.15M avg 23.60M
- 1-year return
- −1.2%
- Typical daily move
- ±3.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±7.5%
- 50-day average
- $673.56
- 200-day average
- $632.17
- Next earnings
- Jan 27 after close
- Shares outstanding
- 2.21B
Meta Platforms swing-trade checklist
Meta Platforms scores 4 supportive, 2 mixed and 0 headwinds across the 6 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
4 supportive2 mixed0 headwinds
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $630.00 sits between the 50-day ($673.56) and 200-day ($632.17) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
65.5, Accumulation
Reading 65.5 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuemixed
4.1% above
Price is within 5% of Gekko Fair Value (4.1% above).
See fair value - Smart moneysupportive
Leans bullish
Last 90 days: Congress 3 buys / 0 sales. Last 30 days: 5 unusual options signals.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 83 days
Next report Jan 27, 2027, 83 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+7.9% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +7.9% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
See seasonality
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Meta Platforms stock chart and price history
Meta Platforms closed at $630.00 on Nov 4, 2026, −1.2% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $520.26 to $779.82.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −14.7%
- 3 months
- +6.8%
- 6 months
- +2.8%
- 1 year
- −1.2%
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About Meta Platforms
Meta Platforms creates apps and devices that help people stay in touch with friends and family, whether they are texting, posting photos or catching up in a video call. Its products span phones, computers, headsets and other wearable gear, and the company is best known for the social and messaging services that make up much of its everyday use. It went by the name Facebook, Inc. until it adopted its present name in late 2021.
Operations are split into two areas, one covering its family of social and messaging apps and the other focused on immersive hardware and software. The first group includes Facebook, a hub for posts, groups and discovery; Instagram, centered on photo and video sharing along with stories, reels, live broadcasts and in-app shopping; Messenger, which handles chats and calls with contacts and businesses alike; and WhatsApp, a secure option for private messaging and money transfers. The second area develops headsets, related software and content meant to bring users together digitally no matter their physical distance.
The company traces back to 2004 and runs its main offices out of Menlo Park, California. It trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker META.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Internet software/Services
- Website
- meta.com
Meta Platforms GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Meta Platforms’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 65.5, in the Accumulation zone, down 9 points over five sessions.
65.5Accumulation
Down 9 points over five sessions, from the Buying zone.
Reading for Nov 4, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 30 | +2.0% | +8.7% |
| Accumulation (current zone) | 172 | +0.7% | +4.2% |
| Neutral | 421 | 0.0% | +0.4% |
| Distribution | 60 | +1.5% | −0.7% |
| Selling | 14 | +6.9% | +21.5% |
Average META share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.0% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is Meta Platforms stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Meta Platforms trades 4.1% above Gekko Fair Value of $605.25, so the shares are about fair value on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Meta Platforms shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$605.25
Gekko Fair Value, Nov 4, 2026
4.1% above fair value · About fair value
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 8.7% above the estimate.
Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
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Meta Platforms insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Meta Platforms, and members of Congress disclosed 3 purchases and 0 sales, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
3trades disclosed: 3 purchases and 0 sales.
| Member | Amount | Disclosed |
|---|---|---|
| Ro Khanna House, CA, purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 | Oct 9 traded Sep 23 |
| Maria Elvira Salazar House, FL, purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 | Oct 8 traded Sep 22 |
| Ro Khanna House, CA, purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 | Oct 9 traded Sep 11 |
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
Buybacks
Meta Platforms has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Mar 31, 2026
- $4.42B
- As a share of market cap
- 0.32%
- Trailing four quarters
- $22.19B
From company filings.
Unusual options activity last 30 days
5signals, 57% of the flagged premium in calls.
Latest: Bullish flow on Oct 29, $65.33M in unusual premium.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Sep 30
14of the funds Gekko tracks hold META.
0added6opened8trimmed1sold out
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Meta Platforms earnings: next date and track record
Meta Platforms reports on Jan 27, 2027, after the close (83 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 6 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Jan 27, 2027
Expected after the close, 83 days away
- EPS estimate
- $8.35
- Revenue estimate
- $74.97B
6 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±7.7%average move across the report
4 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Oct 21, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Meta reported 3.64 billion daily active users across its Family of Apps, with all-time highs in Facebook and Instagram engagement driven by video growth. The company launched 'Muse,' a personal AI agent, achieving 10 million US/Canada setups in 1.5 months with 25% daily engagement rates. Muse's primary use case is commerce, with 25%+ of users shopping and average purchase sizes exceeding $200. Threads surpassed X in monthly active users.
- Guidance
- Meta aims to scale Muse to billions of users globally, with revenue model combining free access and transaction-based commerce fees. Management expects Muse ARPU to exceed existing Family of Apps ARPU of several hundred dollars annually, though acknowledges this will take time to materialize.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2026 | $7.40 est $6.54 | $64.60B est $63.34B | −6.5% |
| Jul 29, 2026 | $6.18 est $7.19 | $60.80B est $60.22B | −9.2% |
| Apr 29, 2026 | $10.44 est $6.70 | $56.31B est $55.56B | −8.9% |
| Jan 28, 2026 | $8.88 est $8.19 | $59.89B est $58.33B | +9.7% |
| Oct 29, 2025 | $1.05 est $6.72 | $51.24B est $49.51B | −11.3% |
| Jul 30, 2025 | $7.14 est $5.88 | $47.52B est $44.82B | +10.5% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | $6.43 est $5.23 | $42.31B est $41.34B | +3.2% |
| Jan 29, 2025 | $8.02 est $6.75 | $48.39B est $47.00B | +1.9% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Meta Platforms stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Meta Platforms is $848.38, +34.7% from the last close, from 39 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$848.38consensus 12-month target, +34.7% from the last close
Now $630.00Avg $848.38
Low $580High $1,000
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 39 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28 | TD Cowen | $850 | +34.9% |
| Oct 27 | Canaccord Genuity | $950 | +50.8% |
| Oct 27 | Bank of America Securities | — | — |
| Oct 27 | Scotiabank | $650 | +3.2% |
| Oct 26 | Piper Sandler | $850 | +34.9% |
+4.2%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+7.9%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±3.6%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Meta Platforms seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Nov 4, Meta Platforms averaged +7.9% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +6.1% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +5.0% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +5.5% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +7.9% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +9.8% | 4 of 5 |
For scale, META’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 7.5%.
Meta Platforms market cap and key statistics
Meta Platforms’s market cap is $1.40T, with a P/E ratio of 20.7 and revenue of $241.6B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $1.40T
- P/E ratio
- 20.7
- Forward P/E
- 17.9
- EPS, TTM
- $29.31
- Gekko Fair Value
- $605.25
Trading
- Volume
- 32.15M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 23.60M
- 52-week high
- $779.82
- 52-week low
- $520.26
- Shares outstanding
- 2.21B
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $241.6B
- Profit margin
- 31.1%
- Return on equity
- 32.3%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +264.8%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.28
- Typical daily move
- ±3.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±7.5%
- Dividend yield
- 0.34%
Meta Platforms stock news this week
Coverage of Meta Platforms this week reads negative: 1 positive, 1 neutral and 4 negative headlines.
- Across eight transactions, an Andreessen Horowitz fund sells 20,951 Meta Platforms (META) shares.Stock Titan, Nov 4
- Meta isn't naming its AI models after fruit anymoreBusiness Insider, Nov 4
- Meta acquires AI coding startup ConductorTechCrunch, Nov 4
- The Nasdaq-100 Is Outperforming Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Alphabet, and Tesla This Year. Here's My Favorite Low-Cost ETF to Buy the Dip.The Motley Fool, Nov 4
- A class action lawsuit alleging the Meta pixel illegally collected patient data will move forward.Claim Depot, Nov 4
- Form 4 Meta Platforms Inc For: 4 November By Investing.comInvesting.com Canada, Nov 4
Meta Platforms peers
Meta Platforms’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| GOOGAlphabet | Buying | 2.4% below |
| GOOGLAlphabet | Buying | 1.7% below |
| NFLXNetflix | Accumulation | 27.7% below |
| SPOTSpotify Technology | Distribution | 30.1% above |
| MSTRStrategy | Neutral | 20.3% below |
| TRIThomson Reuters | Neutral | 14.0% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Meta Platforms stock FAQ
What is Meta Platforms’s market cap?
Meta Platforms’s market cap is $1.40T at the Nov 4, 2026 close of $630.00, with 2.21B shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 20.7.
What is the Meta Platforms stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Meta Platforms is $848.38, +34.7% from the last close. Of the 39 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 34 rate it a buy, 5 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Meta Platforms stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Meta Platforms is about fair value: the Nov 4, 2026 close of $630.00 is 4.1% above Gekko Fair Value of $605.25. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Meta Platforms report earnings next?
Meta Platforms is expected to report on Jan 27, 2027, after the market closes (83 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $8.35 per share on revenue of $74.97B. Meta Platforms beat the earnings estimate in 6 of its last 8 reports, moving 7.7% on average across the report.
What is Meta Platforms’s 52-week high and low?
Meta Platforms’s 52-week high is $779.82 and its 52-week low is $520.26; it closed at $630.00 on Nov 4, 2026, −1.2% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $796.25 on Aug 15, 2025.
Is Meta Platforms stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 4 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, smart money, earnings risk and seasonality), 2 as mixed (trend and fair value). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
Is there unusual options activity in Meta Platforms?
Gekko flagged 5 unusual options signals in Meta Platforms over the last 30 days, with $251.6M of flagged premium in calls and $188.0M in puts. The latest, bullish flow, was on Oct 29, 2026 with $65.33M in unusual premium. The signal-by-signal table is in Gekko.
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