Meta Platforms, Inc. (META)
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- Profitability20/20
Profitable and growing: $88.16B net income over the last four reported quarters, up from $58.53B the year before.
- Insider buying vs selling11/20
Insiders are sellers only: 31 sells worth $13.6M, no open-market buys, across the last 20 Form 4s. Routine executive selling is common, so this is only a mild negative. Separately, 1 new 5%+ stake disclosure (13D/13G) hit in the last 6 months, which is big-money accumulation.
- Dilution and offerings4/15
5 offering-related filings in the last year (share-count history unavailable).
- Analysts57
- Implied upside+30.6%
- Target range$580.00 to $1,000.00
- EPS expected$6.61 +529%
- A year ago$1.05
- Revenue expected$63.31B +24%
- Estimate range$3.13 to $7.64
META closed at $578.02 on Aug 28, up 7.2% since Jul 30. Chart read: price below both the 50-day and 200-day moving averages; the 50-day is below the 200-day (downtrend structure); trading at 21% of the 52-week range ($525.72 to $780.25).
Insider buying and selling at Meta Platforms, Inc. (META)
The most recent Form 4 on record for Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) is August 18, 2026, when Susan J Li, Chief Financial Officer, sold $5.1M of stock. That sale ran under a pre-arranged 10b5-1 plan, so it was scheduled ahead of time rather than decided that week.
| Insider | Action | Value | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan J Li · Chief Financial Officer | Sell | $5.1M | August 18, 2026 | Routine |
| Andrew Bosworth · Chief Technology Officer | Sell | $4.4M | August 18, 2026 | Routine |
| Javier Olivan · Chief Operating Officer | Sell | $3.1M | July 6, 2026 | Routine |
| Susan J Li · Chief Financial Officer | Sell | $6.9M | May 15, 2026 | Routine |
| Andrew Bosworth · Chief Technology Officer | Sell | $4.8M | May 18, 2026 | Routine |
Filed notices to sell
A Form 144 is filed beforean insider sells restricted stock. The Form 4 reporting the completed trade isn't due until two business days after the sale, so these land first. They are intentions, not transactions.
| Insider | Value | Filed | Status | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LI SUSAN J · Officer | $5.1M | August 18, 2026 | Executed | Routine |
| Mahoney Curtis J. · Officer | $869,922 | August 18, 2026 | Executed | Routine |
| Bosworth Andrew · Officer | $4.4M | August 18, 2026 | Executed | Routine |
| Olivan Javier · Officer | $1.0M | August 10, 2026 | Executed | Routine |
| KIMMITT ROBERT M · Director | $280,780 | August 3, 2026 | Executed | Routine |
How Congress has done in META
Every purchase of META disclosed by a member of Congress in the last 5 years, scored over the 12 months after the trade date against SPY over the same window.
| Measure | META | SPY |
|---|---|---|
| Median 12-month return after purchase | +4.7% | +21.3% |
| Median difference vs SPY | -11.3% | — |
| Purchases that beat SPY | 18 of 49 (37%) | — |
| Members who bought | 18 | — |
Most frequent buyers: Josh Gottheimer (8), Marjorie Taylor Greene (7), Cleo Fields (6), Jonathan Jackson (4), John Boozman (3).
These are not returns anyone actually earned. Disclosures report a dollar bracket and no share count, so every purchase is counted once and weighted equally, and sales are not matched back to the buys that opened them. 15 of the 49 purchases are disclosed as a spouse's or dependent's rather than the member's own. Purchases from the last 12 months are excluded because their window has not closed yet.
Congress trades
| Date | Member | Action | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-17 | Jared Moskowitz FL | Purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 | |
| 2026-06-16 | Matt Van Epps TN | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 | |
| 2026-06-01 | Dan Crenshaw TX | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 | |
| 2026-05-06 | Michael Rulli | Purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 | |
| 2026-05-05 | Dan Crenshaw TX | Sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
SEC filings
| Form | Filed | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | August 20, 2026 | FORM 4 |
| 4 | August 20, 2026 | FORM 4 |
| 4 | August 20, 2026 | FORM 4 |
| 4 | August 18, 2026 | FORM 4 |
| 4 | August 18, 2026 | FORM 4 |
| 4 | August 18, 2026 | FORM 4 |
| 4 | August 18, 2026 | FORM 4 |
| 4 | August 18, 2026 | FORM 4 |
Meta Platforms news
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Meta (META) is testing robots to swap cables and reset servers. One could take 80% of some workloads, a worker says.
Wired reported Meta is testing robots from Kinova, ABB, and Watney Robotics to swap cables, power cycle servers, and reseat parts at its Iowa and Ohio data centers. One worker estimates a cable bot could replace up to 80% of some workloads. Meta says it needs more workers, not fewer.
Meta (META) is asking TikTok and YouTube to copy its teen limits. Saying yes costs Meta another $5.3 billion.
Meta ran full-page ads in three national papers urging TikTok and YouTube to adopt the teen limits from its settlement. If the rivals comply, Meta pays the states another $5.3 billion, and New York's payout nearly doubles.
Meta (META) could spend $10 billion a year on Anthropic even after restricting its own engineers from using its tools
Meta is one of Anthropic's largest customers and is spending hundreds of millions a month on its tools, the New York Times reported, two months after Meta limited engineers from using Claude Code.
Meta (META) eyes $720 million South Korea bond sale to fund AI spending
Meta is quietly testing South Korea's bond market. It's looking at selling at least 1 trillion won ($720M) of won bonds to help fund AI, which would put a rare big foreign name in the Arirang market.
Evercore keeps Meta (META) at Outperform with an $860 target after the $18 billion settlement
Meta settled the teen-safety cases for up to $18 billion, and Evercore ISI says that clears one of the stock's two overhangs. The bigger one, capex, is still parked right over the stock.
Meta (META) settled the states' teen-safety case for up to $18 billion. A $10 billion charge hits Q3.
Meta settled the states' teen-safety lawsuit mid-trial for up to $18 billion over 10 years, about $12.7 billion to states plus $5.3 billion contingent on TikTok and YouTube adopting the same limits. It will record a $10 billion legal charge in Q3 and left its July guidance unchanged.
Meta (META) gets $855 price target despite a 91% free cash flow drop
Meta (META) raised its 2026 AI capex guidance to $130-145 billion and free cash flow fell 91% last quarter to $784 million. BNP Paribas and Erste Group both still rate the stock a buy, betting the spending turns into ad and cloud revenue.
Meta (META) is giving $1 billion to its data center towns. Its capex budget this year runs to $145 billion.
Zuckerberg announced the Future Is For Everyone Fund inside his superintelligence essay on Monday. Meta put the size at $1 billion, against 2026 capex guidance of $130 billion to $145 billion.
Meta backed Texas's data center audit. Its $10 billion El Paso project sits outside the grid Abbott froze.
Governor Abbott's office said Meta will comply with the state's data center standards. Meta's largest Texas campus is not on the ERCOT grid, and the Texas Tribune reported the same day that its Fort Worth and El Paso abatements ran through Delaware shell companies. CleanSpark, whose entire 885 MW Texas portfolio is inside ERCOT, backed the audit on its own.
Articles that mention Meta Platforms without it being the main subject.
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OpenAI's data center chief left five months in, as the company commits $1.4 trillion to compute
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Trump's latest disclosure shows five Berkshire trades among 1,051 June transactions
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Frequently asked questions
When does META report earnings?
Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) is scheduled to report quarterly results on October 28, 2026 (estimated). The 42-analyst consensus is $6.61 per share on revenue of $63.31B for the quarter ending September 30, 2026, against $1.05 and $51.24B a year earlier. It has beaten the consensus EPS estimate in 2 of the last four quarters. The date is an estimate from past reporting patterns and can move until the company confirms it.
What do analysts expect for META?
57 analysts cover Meta Platforms, Inc. (META). The consensus rating is Strong buy. The average price target is $754.72, in a range of $580.00 to $1,000.00.
Are insiders buying or selling META?
We track Form 4 filings for Meta Platforms, Inc. (META). The activity listed on this page shows 5 qualifying sales. Each row is labelled Routine when the filer declared a pre-arranged 10b5-1 plan, Tax withholding when shares were sold automatically to cover the tax on a vest, or Own call when neither applies.
Has Congress made money trading META?
18 members of Congress have disclosed buying META in the last 5 years, 49 purchases in total. Measured over the 12 months after each trade date, the median purchase returned +4.7% against +21.3% for SPY over the same windows, and 18 of the 49 (37%) beat the index. These are not returns anyone actually earned: congressional disclosures report a dollar bracket and no share count, so each purchase is counted once and weighted equally, and later sales are not matched back to the buys that opened them.
Where can I see META SEC filings?
Recent filings are listed on this page, newest first. The latest is a 4 filed August 20, 2026.