NASDAQ:FB - Facebook Stock Price, Forecast & News

Facebook's stock was trading at $170.21 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, FB stock has decreased by 2.5% and is now trading at $165.95. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

48 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Facebook in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 1 hold rating and 45 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Facebook.

Facebook is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Facebook.

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January, 29th. The social networking company reported $2.56 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.53 by $0.03. The social networking company earned $21.08 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $20.90 billion. Facebook had a net margin of 26.15% and a return on equity of 19.97%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 24.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $2.38 earnings per share. View Facebook's earnings history.

48 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Facebook's stock. Their forecasts range from $170.00 to $300.00. On average, they anticipate Facebook's share price to reach $238.54 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 43.7% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Facebook.

Press coverage about FB stock has been trending very negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Facebook earned a daily sentiment score of -3.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the social networking company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutFacebook.

Facebook saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 30,175,000 shares, an increase of 14.8% from the February 27th total of 26,290,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 23,768,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.3 days. Approximately 1.3% of the company's stock are sold short. View Facebook's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Facebook include Equinix (EQIX), eBay (EBAY), CoStar Group (CSGP), Verisign (VRSN), Twitter (TWTR), Akamai Technologies (AKAM), SEA (SE), LogMeIn (LOGM), J2 Global (JCOM), Envestnet (ENV), ANGI Homeservices (ANGI), Stamps.com (STMP), Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD), Cimpress (CMPR) and SPS Commerce (SPSC).

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), Canopy Growth (CGC), Tesla (TSLA), Bank of America (BAC), Walt Disney (DIS) and Alphabet (GOOG).

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

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One share of FB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $165.95.

Facebook has a market capitalization of $473.03 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 44,942 workers across the globe. View additional information about Facebook.

The official website for Facebook is http://www.facebook.com/.

Facebook's mailing address is 1601 WILLOW ROAD, MENLO PARK CA, 94025. The social networking company can be reached via phone at 650-543-4800 or via email at [email protected]