Facebook Stock Forecast, Price & News

43 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Facebook in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings, 37 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" Facebook stock.
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Facebook saw a drop in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 20,030,000 shares, a drop of 14.5% from the December 31st total of 23,420,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 19,410,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.0 days. Approximately 0.8% of the shares of the company 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) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January, 27th. The social networking company reported $3.88 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $3.24 by $0.64. The social networking company had revenue of $28.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $26.43 billion. Facebook had a net margin of 32.00% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 23.27%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 33.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $2.56 EPS.
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Facebook's stock was trading at $170.21 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, FB stock has increased by 51.4% and is now trading at $257.62.
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43 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Facebook's shares. Their forecasts range from $195.00 to $375.00. On average, they expect Facebook's stock price to reach $324.65 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 26.0% 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.

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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 number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 bought 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 $257.62.

Facebook has a market capitalization of $733.62 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]