Meta Platforms (META) closed at $614.99 on Oct 30, 2026, down 1.5% on the day. The stock is down 15.3% over the past month, up 4.2% over three months, down 6.8% year to date and down 7.6% over the past year (since Oct 30, 2025). It trades 21.1% below its 52-week high of $779.82 and 18.2% above its 52-week low of $520.26. The close sits below its 50-day moving average ($669.98) and below its 200-day moving average ($631.96).
NextPick tracks META in its Magnificent 7 basket alongside AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN and TSLA. As of Oct 30, 2026, the basket's money-flow score is -2 (neutral), and the basket is down 2.4% over five sessions. Over the past month META ranks 6th of 7 basket members by price change.
Over its last 8 reports the stock moved an average of 7.8% on the first trading day after earnings, beating the options-implied move in 5 of 8.
Form 4 filings over the last 90 days show no open-market purchases and 89 open-market sales by insiders. Short interest was 1.5% of float (1.4 days to cover) as of Sep 30, 2026.
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Over the last 8 reports, META moved an average of 7.8% on the first trading day after earnings. The move beat the options-implied move in 5 of 8 reports.
No — the Oct 30, 2026 close of $614.99 is 2.7% below the 200-day average of $631.96.
META closed 21.1% below its 52-week high of $779.82.
NextPick groups META with AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN and TSLA in its Magnificent 7 basket.
Meta Platforms, Inc. engages in the development of products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality (VR) headsets, and AI glasses in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Family of Apps (FoA) and Reality Labs (RL). The FoA segment offers Facebook, which enables people to build community through feed, reels, stories, groups, marketplace, and other; Instagram that brings people closer through Instagram feed, stories, reels, live, and messaging; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, communities, and businesses across platforms and devices through text, audio, and video calls; Meta AI, an assistant that's available across apps, as a stand-alone app, on AI glasses, and on the web; Threads, an application for text-based updates and public conversations; and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is used by people and businesses to communicate and transact. The RL segment provides virtual and augmented reality products, including consumer hardware, software, and content that help people feel connected, as well as Meta Quest devices that enable social experiences across gaming, fitness, entertainment, and more. The segment also includes wearables such as AI glasses like Ray Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses; and the Meta Ray Ban Display, which combines AI glasses with an integrated lens display and the Meta Neural Band, a wrist worn device using electromyography that lets people control their AI glasses through neuromuscular signals. Meta Platforms, Inc. has a collaboration with Microsoft Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Broadcom Inc., and OpenAI, L.L.C. The company was formerly known as Facebook, Inc. and changed its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. in October 2021. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
