Meta Platforms, Inc. builds technology that helps people connect and share, find communities, and grow businesses. Co.'s products enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) headsets, and wearables. It operates through two segments: Family of Apps (FoA) and Reality Labs (RL). The FoA segment includes Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads and WhatsApp. The RL includes augmented, mixed and virtual reality related consumer hardware, software, and content. We show 11 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our META shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute META market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing META market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing META's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of META versus a peer is one thing; comparing
META market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like META can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching META by allowing them to research the META market cap history. |
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