Meta Platforms (META) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Meta Platforms' price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
META closed at $721.31 on Oct 7, 2026. The price is +13.9% from its 50-day average and +14.6% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +14.2%, beating SPY by 10.8%. It remains 7.5% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessSplit-adjusted OHLCV, end-of-day options chains, SEC 13F filings and EDGAR XBRL company facts · Price/options daily; 13F quarterly; Financials each earnings seasonData as of 2026-10-07 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +13.9% from its 50-day average and +14.6% from its 200-day average. Over three months, META returned +14.2% versus +3.4% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +13.9%
- vs 200-day
- +14.6%
- From 52W high
- -7.5%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
META appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 44 of 93 archived scanner sessions: 30 call-side, 19 put-side and 5 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.37, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-25 | #18 | — |
| 2026-09-09 | — | #6 |
| 2026-09-01 | #30 | — |
| 2026-08-28 | — | #10 |
| 2026-08-27 | #5 | — |
| 2026-08-26 | — | #21 |
| 2026-08-25 | — | #19 |
| 2026-08-19 | #3 | #27 |
| 2026-08-18 | #10 | — |
| 2026-08-17 | #7 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-10-06Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.081 calls, 0.071 puts.
Researched catalyst context
2026-09-24Sep 24: Meta rose 4.5% to $777.59 on 34.5 million shares, 1.8x its 30-day average, on the second day of Meta Connect. The company's own recap, published Sep 23, put its Muse AI agent at the centre of the product line: Muse Realtime Voice and Realtime Avatar, Muse on the AI glasses, a Muse for Mac mode that can drive any application, and Muse Charm, a keychain-sized dedicated device priced and dated only as later this year. Meta VR Glasses were announced at $1,299.99, about 100 grams, shipping spring 2027. Zuckerberg said Muse stays free for a large token allowance and will monetise by taking a fee on transactions completed inside the agent.
Meta runs Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads and builds Reality Labs hardware alongside the Muse agent, which launched Sep 8 and reached number one on both app stores. The stock is up roughly 22% since that launch, so Connect landed on an already-repriced name. JPMorgan raised its target to $920 from $820 on Sep 24, per press coverage rather than the note itself. The commerce integrations Meta named, including Walmart, Best Buy, Shopify, Instacart and Expedia, are what give the transaction fee somewhere to happen, and they are also why several travel and retail names traded on Muse this week.
Source: ↗Curated-manager ownership
5 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Meta Platforms position in their latest filing, worth $3.4B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pershing Square Capital Bill Ackman · META | $1.5B | 11.10% | 2.66M | -0.5% unchanged | 2026-03-31 |
Altimeter Capital Brad Gerstner · META | $763M | 7.76% | 1.35M | -30.6% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Appaloosa Management David Tepper · META | $380M | 4.92% | 675,000 | +54.6% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Fundsmith Terry Smith · META | $593M | 4.34% | 1.05M | -20.4% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · META | $131M | 0.20% | 233,313 | -9.1% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open META Financials →How META trades — the working manual
Meta Platforms is principally a digital advertising business built on large consumer networks, with AI infrastructure and Reality Labs absorbing substantial investment. For the stock, engagement and ad pricing matter alongside a second question: whether rising capital spending improves monetization enough to preserve operating leverage.
What can move the tape
- 01Advertising demand, impressions, pricing and advertiser conversion performance.
- 02Engagement across the family of apps and the effectiveness of recommendation systems.
- 03AI infrastructure spending, depreciation and the measurable return in revenue or efficiency.
- 04Family of Apps margins, Reality Labs losses and consolidated free-cash-flow conversion.
What can fool the read
- 01Privacy, youth-safety and content rules can constrain targeting or increase compliance costs.
- 02Changes in consumer attention can weaken a network before revenue visibly responds.
- 03Infrastructure and Reality Labs spending can rise faster than monetization.
- 04Headline-driven volatility can dominate the tape around regulatory or product events.
Meta Platforms triggered 3 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-10-07 archive. The latest was META on 2026-09-24: 1.8× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +4.5% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported META events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-10-05 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-10-07 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-10-06 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-10-07 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-27 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-10-07 | JSON ↓ |
META stock questions
Is META stock in an uptrend?+
META is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-10-07: the close is +13.9% from its 50-day average and +14.6% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in META mean?+
Meta Platforms's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the META 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are META's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated META Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no META earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.