# Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock (META) — Stock CV

Meta Platforms, Inc. is a $1.83T technology company. Revenue grew 27.7% over the last year, it keeps 30¢ of every dollar of sales as profit, and it holds more cash than debt. It trades at 26.9× earnings — around the middle of its own history.

> Meta is the largest social media company in the world, boasting close to 4 billion monthly active users worldwide. The firm's "Family of Apps," its core business, consists of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.

## Identity

- **Ticker**: META
- **Sector**: Technology
- **Industry**: Internet Content & Information
- **Headquarters**: MENLO PARK, CA
- **Employees**: 78 865
- **Website**: https://about.meta.com
- **Market cap**: $1.83T
- **Last price**: $717.90
- **Financial profile**: Mixed

## Vitals (TTM)

- **Revenue**: $228B
- **Net income**: $68.1B
- **Free cash flow**: $41.0B
- **Net cash**: $22.8B
- **P/E**: 26.9
- **Revenue growth (YoY)**: 27.7%

## Skills (profile scores, 0–100)

| Pillar | Score |
|---|---|
| Valuation | 41 |
| Growth | 80 |
| Profitability | 100 |
| Health | 75 |
| Quality | 75 |
| Moat | 100 |

## Qualifications (beginner checklist) — 10 of 11 passed

- [x] Revenue growing — +27.7% YoY
- [x] Profitable — $68.1B TTM
- [x] Profit growing — +39.9% YoY
- [x] Generates cash — $41.0B TTM
- [x] Debt under control — more cash than debt
- [x] Established company — $1.83T market cap
- [x] Not printing shares — -10.9% shares over ~5y
- [x] Proven track record — 10/10 profitable years
- [ ] Financially stable — health score 50/100
- [x] Pays a dividend — yield 0.29%
- [x] Valuation not extreme — P/E 26.9

## Experience (career milestones)

- **FY2024** — Best year on record: $62.4B net income
- **2024** — Meta announced about its new AI model called Movie Gen, capable of generating realistic video and…
- **Jul 5, 2023** — Threads: 100M sign-ups in five days
- **2022** — After Facebook Inc rebranded to Meta Platforms Inc, Oculus was rebranded to Meta Quest
- **2022** — Also in March 2022, Meta and Italian eyewear giant Luxottica released Ray-Ban Stories, a series of smartglasses…
- **FY2021** — Revenue crossed $100B: $118B for the year
- **Oct 28, 2021** — Renamed Meta: pivot toward the metaverse
- **Oct 28, 2021** — The metaverse vision and the name change from Facebook, Inc. to Meta Platforms were introduced at Facebook Connect…
- **FY2018** — Revenue crossed $50B: $55.8B for the year
- **2017** — This company was acquired in 2017 by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a foundation established by Zuckerberg…
- **FY2016** — Profitable every year on record: 10 consecutive profitable years in our data
- **FY2016** — Revenue already above $10B: $27.6B in first reported year
- **2016** — Later that year, Facebook bought Oculus VR for $2.3 billion in cash and stock
- **2014** — Acquired WhatsApp & Oculus: $19B and $2B — messaging and the metaverse bet
- **May 18, 2012** — IPO on Nasdaq: $16B raise — the biggest tech IPO to date
- **Apr 9, 2012** — Acquired Instagram: $1B for a 13-person startup
- **2006** — News Feed: initially hated — became the core of the product
- **Feb 4, 2004** — Founded in a Harvard dorm: Mark Zuckerberg and roommates launch TheFacebook

## Strengths

- High gross margin (81.8%)
- Strongly profitable — 29.8% net margin
- Revenue growing 27.7% year over year
- Strong cash conversion — FCF is 18.0% of revenue
- Net cash position after subtracting debt from cash

## Watch-outs

- None stand out in the data.

## Track record

| Year | Revenue | Net income | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | $118B | $39.4B | $39.1B |
| FY2022 | $117B | $23.2B | $19.0B |
| FY2023 | $135B | $39.1B | $43.8B |
| FY2024 | $165B | $62.4B | $54.1B |
| FY2025 | $201B | $60.5B | $46.1B |

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Source: https://stockcv.com/META — derived from company filings; may be delayed or incomplete. Information, not investment advice.