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Meta Platforms (META) stock analysis

$697.52+0.47%Data as of Oct 21, 2026
  • META lost 5.3% over the past month versus 0.0% for the S&P 500, ranking 407th of 497 S&P 500 stocks.
  • Over 12 months it returned −4.6%, 20.4 points behind the S&P 500, and trades 10.3% below its 52-week high.
  • In the last 30 days 7 analysts raised earnings estimates and 3 cut; forward EPS moved −0.1% (−2.9% over 90 days).
  • It sits in the Cloud & AI-cloud capex segment of the AI Infrastructure Supply Chain, where the 1-month median return is −5.3%.
  • The daily chart reads Trend transition · Unresolved structure (since Oct 20, 2026).
Market cap$1.78T
12-month return−4.6%
Forward P/E20.0×
Mean target vs price+16.6%

One-year price with 50- and 200-day averages

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Performance vs the market

Total price return against the S&P 500 (SPY) and the median of US stocks in the same sector.

META−5.3%
Sector median−3.4%
S&P 5000.0%
META+15.1%
Sector median−4.2%
S&P 500+4.7%
META+3.4%
Sector median−7.8%
S&P 500+8.7%
META−4.6%
Sector median−4.2%
S&P 500+15.8%
1-month rank in the S&P 500407 / 497
1-month rank in the Nasdaq 10076 / 100
3-month rank in its sector · Communication Services34 / 197

Chart structure

Read by our daily-bar structure engine from swing highs, swing lows and moving averages.

Trend transition · Unresolved structureAwaiting confirmation

Holding since Oct 20, 2026

  • Price and averages have mixed alignment
  • EMA50 rose over the last ten sessions
  • Intermediate and long-term directions differ
  • Neither a stable trend nor a range is confirmed
This pattern on this stock

79 occurrences in 10 years. The median move over the next 20 sessions was +1.6%, positive 56% of the time, against +2.3% for any day in the same period.

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Analyst earnings revisions

Changes to the consensus forward-EPS estimate. Rising estimates mean analysts see more profit ahead.

Forward EPS$33.92
30-day change−0.1%
90-day change−2.9%
Mean target$813.65 +16.6%
Raised (30d) 7Cut (30d) 3

58 analysts cover the stock

Fundamental shape vs peers

Six dimensions on fixed scales. The filled shape is the company; the outline is the peer average.

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Ahead of peersValuation, Revisions

PeersGOOGL · SPOT

Where it sits in the supply chain

AI Infrastructure Supply Chain · Demand

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Supplied by
Servers & racks−8.1%
SMCI−14.4%1 monthDELL−11.5%1 month2317.TW−0.2%1 monthHPE−4.7%1 month
Switching & fabric−4.5%
ANET−10.2%1 monthCSCO+1.2%1 month
Data-center operators−5.5%
EQIX−6.1%1 monthDLR−5.0%1 month
Electronics manufacturing−9.1%
JBL−9.1%1 month
Optical transport & DCI−2.0%
CIEN−2.0%1 month
Its segment
Cloud & AI-cloud capex−5.3%
MSFT+7.0%1 monthGOOGL−4.7%1 monthAMZN+2.9%1 monthMETA−5.3%1 monthORCL−13.5%1 monthCRWV−28.7%1 monthNBIS−27.3%1 month

Cloud, training and inference demand funds the whole chain; planned spending still has to become live capacity and revenue.

Also on: Semiconductor Value Chain · Software & AI Applications

Figures are each company's 1-month return; the segment shows its median · Doubler daily batch · company chain maps

Risk profile

Max drawdown, 12M−29.9%
Volatility, 60D46.5%
From 52-week high−10.3%
From 52-week low+32.7%
Trailing P/E26.3×
Forward P/E20.0×

Themes

  • AI Software3M rank 6 / 24
MSFTMicrosoftGOOGLAlphabetAMZNAmazonORCLOracleSMCISuper Micro Computer, Inc.DELLDell TechnologiesHPEHewlett Packard Enterprise CompANETArista Networks

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