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AI Multi-Horizon Analysis

Short-term60% confidence
Bearish

5m and 15m structures are below all major averages with oversold RSI but MACD still negative; volume light.

Mid-term70% confidence
Bearish

1H and 1D timeframes show price below key moving averages and below SMA-200; daily MACD improving but volume below average.

Long-term55% confidence
Neutral

Strong margins and liquidity offset by lower latest FCF, doubled long-term debt, and neutral insider sentiment.

Overall AI View65% confidence
Bearish

Latest quarter shows decelerating FCF, rising leverage, and neutral-to-bearish insider tape; daily price remains below SMA-200 after a 17.9% decline.

Detailed AI Fundamental Analysis

Business Snapshot

  • Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) is a NASDAQ-listed Class A common stock with SEC linkage to Meta Platforms, Inc. / CIK 1326801.
  • Current quoted price in the payload is around $629.98, with the active timeframe set to 1D and market status regular.
  • Sector / industry is not provided in the payload, so this briefing focuses on the supplied financial statements, insider filings, and technical data.
  • The current session range shown is unusually wide: high $790.80 / low $520.26, while the latest 1D close/current indicator price is around $629.69. Traders should treat that as a major volatility flag and verify live tape/venue data before sizing aggressively.

Financial Trends

  • Revenue trajectory

    • Reported revenue moved from $47.516B on 2025-06-30 to $51.242B on 2025-09-30, up $3.726B, or about +7.8%.
    • The 2025-12-31 period is shown as a 10-K with $200.966B revenue, which is likely full-year rather than directly comparable to the quarterly 10-Q periods. It should not be treated as a normal sequential quarter.
    • Latest 2026-03-31 revenue was $56.311B, up $5.069B versus the comparable prior quarterly figure at 2025-09-30, or about +9.9%.
    • Versus the earliest supplied quarterly period, revenue increased from $47.516B to $56.311B, a gain of $8.795B, or about +18.5%. The quarterly trend is positive and appears to be accelerating modestly from the +7.8% step to the +9.9% step, excluding the annual 10-K figure.
  • Operating income and margins

    • Operating income was $20.441B on 2025-06-30, $20.535B on 2025-09-30, $83.276B for the 2025-12-31 10-K, and $22.872B on 2026-03-31.
    • Comparing quarterly periods, operating income rose from $20.441B to $20.535B, up only $94M, then to $22.872B, up $2.337B versus 2025-09-30.
    • Latest operating income is $2.431B higher than the earliest quarterly period, or about +11.9%.
    • Operating margin was 43.02% on 2025-06-30, 40.07% on 2025-09-30, 41.44% for the 10-K period, and 40.62% on 2026-03-31.
    • The operating margin trend is still strong but below the earliest quarterly level: latest 40.62% is down 2.40 percentage points from 43.02%. However, it improved 0.55 percentage points versus the 2025-09-30 quarter’s 40.07%.
  • Net income and EPS

    • Net income was $18.337B on 2025-06-30, fell sharply to $2.709B on 2025-09-30, was $60.458B in the 2025-12-31 10-K period, then rose to $26.773B on 2026-03-31.
    • The latest quarter’s net income of $26.773B is up $24.064B versus the weak 2025-09-30 quarter and up $8.436B versus 2025-06-30.
    • Net margin moved from 38.59% to 5.29% to 30.08% in the 10-K period, then to 47.54% latest.
    • Latest diluted EPS was $10.44, up from $1.05 on 2025-09-30 and $7.14 on 2025-06-30. Diluted shares were relatively stable: 2.570B, 2.572B, 2.574B, then 2.564B, with the latest share count down 6M from the earliest provided period.
  • Free cash flow and capex

    • Free cash flow was $20.108B on 2025-06-30, $31.278B on 2025-09-30, $46.109B in the 2025-12-31 10-K period, and $13.229B on 2026-03-31.
    • The latest quarterly FCF of $13.229B is down $7.879B versus 2025-06-30 and down $18.049B versus 2025-09-30.
    • Capex increased from $29.479B to $48.308B to $69.691B in the 10-K period, then was $18.997B in the latest quarter.
    • Cash from operations was $32.226B latest, while capex was $18.997B, leaving positive but lower FCF. The trend shows the business is still generating substantial cash, but latest quarterly FCF is decelerating relative to the earlier quarterly periods supplied.
  • Balance sheet trajectory

    • Total assets rose from $294.744B on 2025-06-30 to $303.844B, then $366.021B, then $395.250B latest. Latest assets are up $100.506B versus the earliest period, or about +34.1%.
    • Total liabilities increased from $99.674B to $109.778B, then $148.778B, then $151.569B latest. Latest liabilities are up $51.895B versus the earliest period, or about +52.1%.
    • Shareholders’ equity increased from $195.070B to $194.066B, then $217.243B, then $243.681B latest. Latest equity is up $48.611B versus the earliest period, or about +24.9%.
    • Cash and equivalents moved from $12.005B to $10.187B, jumped to $35.873B, then declined to $23.426B latest. Latest cash is still up $11.421B versus the earliest period but down $12.447B from 2025-12-31.
    • Long-term debt rose from $28.832B to $28.834B, then jumped to $58.744B, and was $58.748B latest. Latest long-term debt is up $29.916B versus the earliest period, roughly doubling.
    • Current ratio improved from 1.97 to 1.98, then 2.60, then eased to 2.35 latest. Liquidity remains strong, but the latest quarter shows a modest pullback from year-end.
    • Debt/equity moved from 0.15 to 0.15, then 0.27, then 0.24 latest. Leverage is higher than the earliest periods but improved slightly versus 2025-12-31.

Financial Health

  • Latest-period fundamentals look strong, but with two important caveats: higher debt and lower latest-quarter FCF.
  • Liquidity remains solid:
    • Latest current assets were $109.765B against current liabilities of $46.753B.
    • Latest current ratio was 2.35, above all earlier periods except the 2025-12-31 value of 2.60.
    • Working capital was $63.012B, down from $66.886B at 2025-12-31 but far above $36.308B on 2025-06-30.
  • Profitability remains high:
    • Latest operating margin was 40.62%, still very strong, though below the 43.02% level from 2025-06-30.
    • Latest net margin of 47.54% is the highest of the provided margin series, but the prior quarterly collapse to 5.29% on 2025-09-30 shows some volatility in below-operating-income items or period-specific impacts.
  • Cash generation remains positive:
    • Latest cash from operations was $32.226B and FCF was $13.229B.
    • However, FCF is lower than the earlier quarterly figures of $20.108B and $31.278B, so the latest read is not accelerating on a quarterly basis.
  • Balance sheet strength remains substantial, but leverage has stepped up:
    • Long-term debt of $58.748B is nearly unchanged from 2025-12-31 but much higher than $28.832B four periods ago.
    • Debt/equity at 0.24 is manageable based on the provided data, but it is above the 0.15 level seen in the two earliest periods.
  • Overall: META’s latest financial profile is high-margin, cash-generative, and liquid, but traders should recognize that the latest quarter shows lower FCF versus earlier quarterly periods and a balance sheet that is more levered than mid-2025.

Insider Activity

  • Insider sentiment for 2026-03-06 to 2026-06-04 is listed as Neutral (-10).
  • Parsed activity shows:
    • Buys: $0.00 across 27 transactions
    • Sells: $40.565M across 68 transactions
    • Net: -$40.565M
    • Filings parsed: 12
  • The “buy” transactions in the detailed list are mostly shown at $0, which often indicates equity awards, grants, vesting, or non-open-market transactions rather than executives buying stock with cash in the open market.
  • Recent named sale activity includes:
    • Robert M. Kimmitt sold 504 shares at $629.29 for $317K on 2026-06-01.
    • Javier Olivan had multiple sales at $629.29 on 2026-06-01 totaling about $926K across the listed lots, and earlier repeated sales around $608–$609.
    • Curtis J. Mahoney sold 2,079 shares at $609.92 for $1.268M on 2026-05-27.
    • Larger May 15–18 sales were reported by insiders including Dina Powell, Javier Olivan, Curtis Mahoney, Christopher Cox, Andrew Bosworth, and Susan Li, mostly around $604–$618.
  • Interpretation:
    • The insider tape is not bullish because there are no cash-value open-market buys in the provided summary and meaningful sales are present.
    • It is also not necessarily a decisive bearish signal because the payload shows many $0 acquisition / disposition entries, which can be compensation-plan related. Still, for trading purposes, insider activity provides no positive support to the thesis.

Multi-Timeframe Technical Context

  • Ultra-short term: 1-minute

    • 1m bars show a mild decline over the 200-bar window: $631.045 open to $629.709 close, down 0.21%.
    • RSI is neutral-to-soft: RSI-14 45.77, RSI-21 43.82.
    • MACD is negative at -0.9261, but above the signal line -1.1159, suggesting downside momentum may be trying to stabilize intraminute.
    • Price is around the 1m SMA-20 $629.44, but below SMA-50 $631.95 and SMA-200 $636.40.
    • Current 1m volume of 54,761 is above the 20-bar average of 29,588, so immediate moves may have more participation than normal.
  • Short intraday: 5-minute and 15-minute

    • 5m trend is weak: 200-bar window moved from $635.35 to $602.24, down 5.21%.
    • 5m RSI-14 is 32.8, near oversold, with price below EMA-12 $602.32, EMA-26 $603.15, SMA-20 $603.29, SMA-50 $604.54, and SMA-200 $607.15.
    • 15m trend is also weak: $636.00 to $602.24, down 5.31%.
    • 15m RSI-14 is 27.84, an oversold reading, but MACD -0.5830 is below signal -0.2999, so momentum has not clearly turned up on that timeframe.
    • The 15m price is near the lower Bollinger Band $601.35, with the lower band acting as a near-term downside reference and $604.69–$608.02 as initial mean-reversion resistance.
  • Hours to days: 1-hour

    • 1H 200-bar window moved from $615.20 to $602.24, down 2.11%.
    • 1H RSI is oversold: RSI-14 27.95, RSI-21 24.55.
    • 1H MACD is -6.3513, slightly above signal -6.4865, which can indicate early stabilization, but price remains below key averages: EMA-12 $605.40, EMA-26 $611.75, EMA-50 $616.68, SMA-20 $610.05, SMA-50 $623.18, and SMA-200 $613.98.
    • 1H Bollinger Band range is wide: lower $586.42 / middle $610.05 / upper $633.69. That implies room for a relief bounce, but also high realized volatility.
    • Current 1H volume is 81,922, far below the 20-bar average of 1.339M, so confirmation from volume is limited on the latest hourly bar.
  • Weeks to months: 1-day

    • 1D 200-bar window shows a large decline from $767.12 to $629.69, down 17.92%, with a high of $790.80 and low of $520.26.
    • Daily RSI is constructive-neutral: RSI-14 54.76, RSI-21 57.38.
    • Daily MACD is -1.7568, above signal -3.3933, suggesting improving momentum from a previously negative setup.
    • Price is above daily EMA-12 $618.04, EMA-26 $619.80, EMA-50 $623.83, SMA-20 $614.01, and SMA-50 $619.60, but below SMA-200 $663.25.
    • Daily Bollinger Bands are $590.14 lower / $614.01 middle / $637.89 upper. Current price is near the upper half of the band but not above the upper band.
    • Daily volume of 11.57M is below the 20-day average of 15.38M, so the daily rebound/positioning has not yet shown above-average volume confirmation.

Bull / Bear Cases

  • Short-term bull case: minutes to days
    • 15m and 1H RSI readings are oversold: 15m RSI-14 27.84, 1H RSI-14 27.95.
    • 1m MACD is negative but above signal, and 1H MACD is also slightly above signal, which can support a tactical relief-bounce attempt.
    • If price can reclaim $603–$605 on the 5m/15m charts, the next mean-reversion zones are around $607–$610, then $616–$620.
    • The daily chart is more constructive than the intraday chart, with price above the daily 20/50 moving averages and daily MACD above signal.

Financials

From SEC EDGAR · Period 2026-03-31 · Source form 10-Q

Income Statement · last 4 periods

 
2026-03-31
10-Q
2025-12-31
10-K
2025-09-30
10-Q
2025-06-30
10-Q
Revenue$56.31B$200.97B$51.24B$47.52B
Operating Income$22.87B$83.28B$20.54B$20.44B
Net Income$26.77B$60.46B$2.71B$18.34B
EPS (Diluted)$10.44$23.49$1.05$7.14
Operating Margin40.62%41.44%40.07%43.02%
Net Margin47.54%30.08%5.29%38.59%

Balance Sheet · last 4 periods

 
2026-03-31
10-Q
2025-12-31
10-Q
2025-09-30
10-Q
2025-06-30
10-Q
Total Assets$395.25B$366.02B$303.84B$294.74B
Total Liabilities$151.57B$148.78B$109.78B$99.67B
Shareholders' Equity$243.68B$217.24B$194.07B$195.07B
Cash & Equivalents$23.43B$35.87B$10.19B$12.01B
Long-term Debt$58.75B$58.74B$28.83B$28.83B
Current Ratio2.352.601.981.97
Debt / Equity0.240.270.150.15

Cash Flow · last 4 periods

 
2026-03-31
10-Q
2025-12-31
10-K
2025-09-30
10-Q
2025-06-30
10-Q
Cash from Operations$32.23B$115.80B$79.59B$49.59B
Cash from Investing-$33.68B-$102.00B-$67.82B-$45.97B
Cash from Financing-$6.55B-$20.37B-$45.52B-$35.47B
Capital Expenditures$19.00B$69.69B$48.31B$29.48B
Free Cash Flow$13.23B$46.11B$31.28B$20.11B

Income Statement

Revenue
$56.31B
Gross Profit
Operating Income
$22.87B
Net Income
$26.77B
EPS (Basic)
$10.57
EPS (Diluted)
$10.44

Balance Sheet

Total Assets
$395.25B
Total Liabilities
$151.57B
Shareholders' Equity
$243.68B
Cash & Equivalents
$23.43B
Long-term Debt
$58.75B
Shares Outstanding

Cash Flow

Cash from Operations
$32.23B
Cash from Investing
-$33.68B
Cash from Financing
-$6.55B
Capital Expenditures
$19.00B
Free Cash Flow
$13.23B

Key Ratios

Gross Margin
Operating Margin
40.62%
Net Margin
47.54%
Current Ratio
2.35
Debt / Equity
0.24
Free Cash Flow
$13.23B

Insider Activity

28 insider filings (2026-05-05 to 2026-06-04) — sourced directly from SEC Forms 4/5

Buys
$0.00 · 21
Sells
$39.75M · 60
Net
-$39.75M
Filings Parsed
28
Trade DateInsiderActionSharesPriceValue
2026-06-01KIMMITT ROBERT MSell504$629.29$317.2K
2026-06-01Olivan JavierSell837$629.29$526.7K
2026-06-01Olivan JavierSell82$629.29$51.6K
2026-06-01Olivan JavierSell57$629.29$35.9K
2026-06-01Olivan JavierSell82$629.29$51.6K
2026-06-01Olivan JavierSell408$629.29$256.8K
2026-05-27Mahoney Curtis J.Sell2,079$609.92$1.27M
2026-05-26Olivan JavierSell837$608.98$509.7K

Key Stats

$1.70TMarket cap
$796.2552-week high
$520.2652-week low
16,086,316Avg volume (30d)

78,865 employees2.54B shares outstandinglisted 2012-05-18dividend yield 0.31%

Next earnings ~May 5, 2026 · Ex-dividend Mar 16, 2026 · Dividend $0.53 quarterly

About Meta

Meta is the largest social media company in the world, boasting close to 4 billion monthly active users worldwide. The firm's "Family of Apps," its core business, consists of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. End users can leverage these applications for a variety of different purposes, from keeping in touch with friends to following celebrities and running digital businesses for free. Meta packages customer data, gleaned from its application ecosystem and sells ads to digital advertisers. While the firm has been investing heavily in its Reality Labs business, it remains a very small part of Meta's overall sales.

Recent SimianX AI Analyses

  • decisionconfidence 72%

    MARKET STATE: META is in a choppy corrective phase with bearish underlying trend (price below SMA-200, EMAs bearish) despite today’s high-volume bounce. MY READ: Fundamentals and intelligence both lean bearish with decelerating FCF and resistance flagged near $650; the technical bounce above short-term averages is momentum noise rather than a trend reversal, so the path of least resistance remains lower or sideways for the next several sessions. MY ANALYSIS: The bearish fundamental and intelligence signals outweigh the neutral-to-mildly-positive short-term momentum readings. High volume on the gap-down open suggests distribution rather than accumulation. With price already testing the upper Bollinger Band and the 200-day SMA acting as overhead resistance, any sustained upside is likely to stall. Waiting preserves capital until clearer bullish alignment appears. AI DECISION (for next days to a week): Action: NO_TRADE Confidence: 0.72 Rationale: All three major lenses (fundamentals, technicals, intelligence) are either bearish or neutral-bearish. Entering long here would mean fighting both the higher-timeframe trend and negative sentiment catalysts; the reward-to-risk skews unfavorable until price stabilizes or a structural bullish catalyst emerges.

  • decisionconfidence 72%

    MARKET STATE: META is in a choppy, bearish-leaning consolidation on the daily; price has bounced off recent lows but remains below the SMA-200 after a 17.9 % decline and is testing upper-Bollinger resistance. MY READ: All three inputs (fundamental, technical, intelligence) align on a bear/neutral-bear bias. The gap-down open, elevated volume, and MACD crossover provide some short-term bounce, but the underlying trend, SMA-200 resistance, and lack of positive catalysts argue against initiating fresh longs here. MY ANALYSIS: - Price is above short-term moving averages yet still below the 200-day SMA and confronting $634–$650 resistance; the 12-day EMA remains below the 26-day EMA, confirming the short-term trend is still down. - Fundamentals cite decelerating FCF and rising leverage, while intelligence flags neutral-to-bearish sentiment and a specific sell-above-$650 narrative—no structural breakout catalyst is present. - A long would require either a decisive close above the upper Bollinger/resistance zone or a deeper pullback to a level offering ≥1.5 : 1 reward-to-risk; neither condition is met today. AI DECISION (for next days to a week): Action: NO_TRADE Confidence: 0.72 Rationale: Bearish alignment across fundamental, technical, and intelligence inputs, combined with price already extended toward resistance and no clear catalyst, makes any long position low-conviction; waiting for either a confirmed break above $650 or a deeper retracement to ~$605–$610 offers a far better risk/reward setup.

  • decisionconfidence 85%

    MARKET STATE: Bearish alignment across fundamentals, technicals, and intelligence — price is in a corrective phase on the 1D chart. MY READ: All three data streams are pointing in the same direction (bearish). The dominant narrative highlights selling pressure above $650 and a cautious macro backdrop. With price already at $630 and no structural break visible, there is no edge in stepping in front of this tape. MY ANALYSIS: - Trend is unambiguously bearish; fighting it would violate the hard trend rule. - Intelligence shows no positive catalyst strong enough to override the bearish tilt. - Risk/reward is poor for a long here — any bounce is likely to be faded. AI DECISION (for next days to a week): Action: NO_TRADE Confidence: 0.85 Rationale: All inputs (fundamentals, indicators, and market intelligence) are uniformly bearish with no disagreement or hidden bullish signal. Entering long into a confirmed downtrend with negative sentiment is the exact setup the rules prohibit; waiting preserves capital until either a structural reversal or a much better risk/reward setup appears.

  • indicatorBearish

    Gap-down open and bearish EMA cross weigh on META despite price holding above shorter averages and a MACD bullish cross.

  • intelligenceconfidence 75%

    Neutral-to-bearish sentiment prevails with selling pressure above $650; AI and policy updates create mixed signals but lack bullish momentum.

  • intelligenceconfidence 75%

    Macro-driven risk-off from oil spike and rising yields creates net bearish pressure on META with no offsetting company-specific catalyst.

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