#meta-platforms

#meta-platforms

Meta Platforms and Amazon could surpass the current combined market value of Nvidia and Palantir by the end of the decade. Over the past year, Nvidia shares have advanced 33%, bringing its market value to $4.3 trillion. Meanwhile, Palantir Technologies shares has advanced 155%, bringing its market value to $395 billion. In aggregate, the companies are worth about $4.7 trillion. Apple could certainly surpass that figure within five years, but I also have confidence in Meta Platforms and Amazon .

Two U.S. senators are pushing the heads of the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission to probe Meta Platforms after a recent Reuters investigation revealed the social media giant earned $16 billion from advertising scams and banned goods in 2024. A letter from Senators Josh Hawley (R‑MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT) to the agencies calls for a full investigation into Meta, pointing out that internal documents show Meta earned about 10% of its annual revenue from scam and fraudulent ads last year.

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. End users can leverage these applications for a variety of different purposes, from keeping in touch with friends to following celebrities and running digital businesses for free. Meta packages customer data, gleaned from its application ecosystem and sells ads to digital advertisers.

With apps surging and receding, chasing one craze and moving on from others, and adding new features with each passing year, the FTC has understandably struggled to fix the boundaries of Meta's product market. Even so, it continues to insist that Meta competes with the same old rivals it has for the last decade, that the company holds a monopoly among that small set, and that it maintained that monopoly through anticompetitive acquisitions,

With the market beginning to retreat from all-time highs, now can be a good time to invest in some long-term potential winners. Let's look at three beaten-down stocks you can add today, starting with $1,000 investments. This is a nice starting amount to dip your toe into these stocks, and if they feel any more pressure, you can add to your positions later.

Finding some stocks that are a bit down to double up on can be a good investing strategy. However, investors must be sure that what they're buying is a quality company that's only down because the market has grown impatient or is expecting some short-term headwinds. If you can identify these companies, I think there is a lot of money to be made by purchasing shares today.

Shares of Meta Platforms sank despite the social media company reporting strong third-quarter results that easily topped analyst estimates, as investors fret over its capital expenditures (capex) spending. The company said it needs more computing power for its artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, and as such raised the low end of its capex budget this year from a prior outlook of $66 billion to $72 billion to a new range of $70 billion to $72 billion. It also expects a big increase next year as well.

Of everything Meta said this quarter, the real story wasn't the revenue beat or the one-time tax charge that crushed reported net income. It was this: the company just committed to spending $70-72 billion on capital expenditures in 2025. That's a 93% increase from 2024's $37.3 billion. For context, Meta spent $31.4 billion on capex in 2022. The company is nearly doubling its infrastructure investment in a single year.

The Meta CEO dropped two spots on Bloomberg's Billionaires Index after the company's quarterly earnings report sent its stock sliding. Zuckerberg lost around $29.2 billion overnight, leaving him with $235 billion. The drop pushed him to fifth place on the index, below Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Alphabet's Larry Page. Page's net worth increased to $244 billion as Alphabet's shares rose 2.5% after the company beat earnings estimates, buoyed by robust growth in Google Cloud and Search.

Meta Platforms is the world's leading social technology company, operating a family of apps including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, alongside its emerging virtual and augmented reality ecosystem under Reality Labs. With over 3 billion users across its platforms, Meta continues to dominate global digital advertising, while investing heavily in AI-driven engagement, short-form video monetization, and metaverse infrastructure. Over the past few years, Meta has shifted focus from pure user growth to efficiency, automation, and profitability.

Meta Platforms Inc. found record-shattering demand for its bond sale on Thursday even as its shares plunged, in a sign that bond investors are looking past any concerns about its artificial-intelligence spending plans. The company sold $30 billion of bonds, the largest high-grade US note sale since 2023, drawing the most ever orders at $125 billion. That came on a day where Meta's shares dropped as much as 14%, after it had posted quarterly earnings late Wednesday,

From 2012 to 2024, Meta's revenue and earnings per share ( EPS) grew at a CAGR of 34% and 91%, respectively. At the end of 2012, the company served 1.06 billion monthly active users on Facebook. But by the second quarter of 2025, it served 3.48 billion daily active people across all of its apps. It also holds a near-duopoly in digital ads with Alphabet's Google across many markets, and it's established an early-mover advantage in the mixed reality market with its Reality Labs devices.

Just this morning, analysts at Mizuho reiterated an outperform rating on Advanced Micro Devices ( NASDAQ: AMD) with a price target of $275 from $205. All after AMD announced a long-term deal to become a key supplier to OpenAI's AI infrastructure program. AMD added that the new partnership will allow it to generate billions of dollars in annual revenue. It will also allow it to generate over $100 billion in total revenue from chips over the next few years.