Facebook Stock Forecast, Price & News

Facebook's stock was trading at $170.21 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, FB stock has increased by 61.3% and is now trading at $274.50.
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45 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, 39 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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1,448 employees have rated Facebook CEO Doug Parker on Glassdoor.com. Doug Parker has an approval rating of 60% among Facebook's employees. This puts Doug Parker in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Facebook is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 27th 2021.
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Facebook will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, January 27th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) announced its earnings results on Thursday, October, 29th. The social networking company reported $2.71 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.94 by $0.77. The social networking company earned $21.47 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $19.78 billion. Facebook had a return on equity of 23.27% and a net margin of 32.00%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 21.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $2.12 EPS.
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45 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Facebook's shares. Their forecasts range from $195.00 to $355.00. On average, they expect Facebook's stock price to reach $308.37 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 12.3% from the stock's current price.
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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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include DNB Asset Management AS (0.07%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.03%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%), Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A. (0.02%) and Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA (0.01%). 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 Neumann Advisory Hong Kong Ltd, Sarasin & Partners LLP, Pacer Advisors Inc., Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., Verde Servicos Internacionais S.A., Avantax Advisory Services Inc., Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, and British Airways Pensions Investment Management Ltd. 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, Peter Thiel, and Susan JS Taylor.
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FB stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including DNB Asset Management AS, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, Kestra Advisory Services LLC, Bennett Selby Investments LP, IFM Investors Pty Ltd, Westbourne Investment Advisors Inc., and Peregrine Capital Management LLC.
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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.

One share of FB stock can currently be purchased for approximately $274.50.

Facebook has a market capitalization of $781.86 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.

The official website for Facebook is 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 650-618-7714 or via email at [email protected]