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Meta Platforms (META)

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger; advertising-funded, with heavy AI and AR/VR investment.

Legal name
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Ticker
META
Exchange
Nasdaq Stock Market · MIC XNAS
Country
United States
Sector
Communication Services
Industry
Social Media
Market cap ≈
$1.5tn — computed, not copied: 2.548bn shares × $578.02 close on 2026-08-28
Reporting currency
USD
Founded
2004
Website
about.meta.com
LEI
BQ4BKCS1HXDV9HN80Z93 (GLEIF)
ISIN
US30303M1027 (check digit validated)
FIGI
BBG001SQCQC5 (share class, OpenFIGI)

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Sector peers — Communication Services

Compare: META vs GOOGL · META vs 0700 · META vs NFLX

How this market cap is arrived at

Shares outstanding2,547,506,225
Basisoutstanding
As of2026-06-30
SourceSEC 10-Q cover page (2026-06-30)
Price578.02 USD · META · close 2026-08-28
VenueNasdaqGS
Market cap$1.5tn

Class B is unlisted but is on the 10-Q cover page; it must be included — using the listed Class A alone understates the cap by ~13%. Class A count is now rising (2,187m at 2025-12-31 -> 2,206m at 2026-06-30) as buybacks no longer offset RSU issuance.

Share counts move on a filing cadence, prices move continuously — so this figure is exact only as of the two dates above, and we publish both rather than a single undated number. Provenance.

Fundamentals

From the 10-K for the year ended 2025-12-31USDAs reported
Revenueus-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax $201.0bn
Operating incomeus-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss $83.3bn
Net incomeus-gaap:NetIncomeLoss $60.5bn
Research & developmentus-gaap:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense $57.4bn
Total assetsus-gaap:Assets $366.0bn
Shareholders' equityus-gaap:StockholdersEquity $217.2bn
Cash & equivalentsus-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue $35.9bn

Net margin 30.1% — net income divided by revenue, both from this same filing.
Market cap / net income 24.4× — a market value from 2026-08-28 divided by earnings for a year that ended 2025-12-31. The two dates are far apart on purpose: this is arithmetic on two published numbers, not a valuation.

Every figure above is read from the same 10-K, filed 2026-01-29, and each row names the XBRL tag it came from so it can be checked against the document. Metrics absent from that filing are absent here rather than sourced from a different year — a table mixing periods is individually true and collectively meaningless.

Identifier crosswalk

StandardValueWhat it answers
Ticker META Venue-local shorthand — ambiguous across markets
MIC XNAS ISO 10383 — the venue
ISIN US30303M1027 ISO 6166 — the security
LEI BQ4BKCS1HXDV9HN80Z93 ISO 17442 — the legal entity
FIGI BBG001SQCQC5 OpenFIGI — instrument, share class
CUSIP 30303M102 Derived from the US/CA ISIN, check digit verified — licensed identifier, not republished as data

6 naming systems for one entity — only codes we actually hold are listed, with no gaps filled by guessing. Sources: LEI from GLEIF (CC0), ISIN read from the issuer's own primary listing document, with its ISO 6166 check digit validated, FIGI from OpenFIGI (open standard), MIC from the ISO 10383 registry. CUSIP appears because it is arithmetically embedded in US and Canadian ISINs — we derive and verify it from a code we already hold, and we do not redistribute CUSIP Global Services data. Each linked code opens its reverse-lookup page; the validator checks any code's check digit. seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30.

Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.

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