Facebook Stock Forecast, Price & News

44 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Facebook in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings, 38 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" Facebook stock.
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Facebook saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 20,030,000 shares, a decrease of 14.5% from the December 31st total of 23,420,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 19,410,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.0 days. Approximately 0.8% of the company's shares are sold short.
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Facebook is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 5th 2021.
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Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 27th. The social networking company reported $3.88 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.24 by $0.64. The social networking company earned $28.10 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $26.43 billion. Facebook had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 23.27% and a net margin of 32.00%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 33.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $2.56 EPS.
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Facebook's stock was trading at $170.21 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, FB stock has increased by 49.6% and is now trading at $254.69.
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44 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Facebook's stock. Their forecasts range from $195.00 to $375.00. On average, they anticipate Facebook's share price to reach $324.65 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 27.5% from the stock's current price.
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1,667 employees have rated Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Glassdoor.com. Mark Zuckerberg has an approval rating of 93% among Facebook's employees. This puts Mark Zuckerberg in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Some companies that are related to Facebook include SEA (SE), Twitter (TWTR), Equinix (EQIX), eBay (EBAY), CoStar Group (CSGP), VeriSign (VRSN), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), ANGI Homeservices (ANGI), J2 Global (JCOM), Envestnet (ENV), LivePerson (LPSN), SPS Commerce (SPSC), Stamps.com (STMP), Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD) and Yelp (YELP).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Facebook investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron Technology (MU), General Electric (GE), Netflix (NFLX), Tesla (TSLA), (CGC), The Walt Disney (DIS), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Alphabet (GOOG).

Facebook trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FB."

Facebook's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (5.61%), FMR LLC (4.33%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (3.57%), Morgan Stanley (1.07%), Northern Trust Corp (0.98%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.74%). Company insiders that own Facebook stock include Christopher K Cox, Colin Stretch, David B Fischer, David M Wehner, Jennifer Newstead, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Todd Schroepfer, Peter Thiel, Sheryl Sandberg and Susan JS Taylor.
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FB stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Tiger Global Management LLC, Lone Pine Capital LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, FIL Ltd, Winslow Capital Management LLC, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Company insiders that have sold Facebook company stock in the last year include David B Fischer, David M Wehner, Jennifer Newstead, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Todd Schroepfer, and Susan JS Taylor.
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FB stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Itau Unibanco Holding S.A., Cibc World Markets Corp, D1 Capital Partners L.P., CIBC World Markets Inc., Viking Global Investors LP, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, and BlackRock Inc..
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Shares of FB can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of FB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $254.69.

Facebook has a market capitalization of $725.27 billion and generates $70.70 billion in revenue each year. The social networking company earns $18.49 billion in net income (profit) each year or $6.43 on an earnings per share basis.

Facebook employs 56,653 workers across the globe.

Facebook was founded in 2004.

The official website for Facebook is www.facebook.com.

Facebook is headquartered at 1601 WILLOW ROAD, MENLO PARK CA, 94025.

Facebook's mailing address is 1601 WILLOW ROAD, MENLO PARK CA, 94025. The social networking company can be reached via phone at 650-618-7714 or via email at [email protected]