Jackson Square Capital LLC Sells 5,095 Shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. $META

Jackson Square Capital LLC reduced its position in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) by 49.7% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 5,152 shares of the social networking company’s stock after selling 5,095 shares during the period. Jackson Square Capital LLC’s holdings in Meta Platforms were worth $3,401,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in META. Westchester Capital Management Inc. bought a new stake in Meta Platforms in the 3rd quarter valued at about $26,000. Dorato Capital Management bought a new stake in Meta Platforms in the 4th quarter valued at about $62,000. PMV Capital Advisers LLC raised its stake in Meta Platforms by 26.3% in the 4th quarter. PMV Capital Advisers LLC now owns 96 shares of the social networking company’s stock valued at $63,000 after acquiring an additional 20 shares during the period. Evergreen Private Wealth LLC raised its stake in Meta Platforms by 64.8% in the 3rd quarter. Evergreen Private Wealth LLC now owns 89 shares of the social networking company’s stock valued at $65,000 after acquiring an additional 35 shares during the period. Finally, eCIO Inc. bought a new stake in Meta Platforms in the 4th quarter valued at about $66,000. 79.91% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Key Stories Impacting Meta Platforms

Here are the key news stories impacting Meta Platforms this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Expanded multi‑year AI chip partnership with Broadcom supports Meta’s plan to scale in‑house AI accelerators and networking capacity through 2029, reducing supply risk and boosting long‑term margin/compute control. Meta, Broadcom strike multi-year AI chip deal
• Positive Sentiment: CoreWeave confirmed Meta added roughly $21 billion of new commitments through 2032, signaling large, durable demand for AI cloud capacity tied to Meta’s training/inference needs. CoreWeave’s April Shockwave — Meta, Anthropic, Jane Street All Say Yes
• Positive Sentiment: Bullish analyst coverage: TD Cowen reaffirmed a Buy and set an $820 target, and Morgan Stanley named META a top Big Tech pick — both lift sentiment and buying interest. TD Cowen reiterates buy; $820 target
• Neutral Sentiment: Meta’s aggressive AI capex plans (massive 2026 investments) reinforce the company’s long‑term AI thesis but also imply near‑term heavy spending that could pressure free cash flow. Is Meta Platforms a Hot Internet Content and Information Stock as It Invests Heavily in AI?
• Neutral Sentiment: Macro: weekly jobless claims came in below expectations, a positive economic signal that can support ad demand and broad market risk appetite. Weekly Jobless Claims Below Expectations
• Neutral Sentiment: Internal changes at Reality Labs aim to speed hardware development — potentially positive for metaverse ambitions but execution risk remains. Meta Makes Major Changes to Speed Reality Labs’ Progress
• Negative Sentiment: EU regulators moved to force Meta to restore full WhatsApp access for rival AI assistants and ordered rollback of the access fee — a material regulatory risk that could limit monetization options and invite fines. EU warns Meta WhatsApp AI fee breaches antitrust rules, orders rollback
• Negative Sentiment: Meta will raise Quest VR headset prices in the U.S. starting April 19 due to higher memory chip costs — could damp demand for hardware and signal margin pressure in consumer devices. Meta to raise Quest VR headset prices in US on rising component costs
• Negative Sentiment: COO Javier Olivan executed planned Rule 10b5‑1 sales, reducing his stake meaningfully; although on a trading plan, such sales can be perceived negatively by some investors. SEC filing: Javier Olivan insider sales

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on META shares. Robert W. Baird boosted their price objective on Meta Platforms from $815.00 to $830.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Scotiabank boosted their price objective on Meta Platforms from $685.00 to $700.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of Meta Platforms in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated an “overweight” rating and set a $860.00 price objective (up from $750.00) on shares of Meta Platforms in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Finally, Bank of America boosted their price objective on Meta Platforms from $810.00 to $885.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-eight have assigned a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $837.72.

Insider Transactions at Meta Platforms

In other news, CFO Susan J. Li sold 56,571 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, February 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $644.70, for a total value of $36,471,323.70. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, COO Javier Olivan sold 2,778 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, April 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $629.45, for a total transaction of $1,748,612.10. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief operating officer directly owned 10,557 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,645,103.65. The trade was a 20.83% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 164,499 shares of company stock valued at $105,237,895. 13.61% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Meta Platforms Trading Up 0.8%

Meta Platforms stock opened at $676.87 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $1.71 trillion, a P/E ratio of 28.80, a PEG ratio of 1.04 and a beta of 1.31. Meta Platforms, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $479.80 and a fifty-two week high of $796.25. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $626.94 and its 200-day moving average price is $652.21. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27, a quick ratio of 2.60 and a current ratio of 2.60.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January 28th. The social networking company reported $8.88 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $8.16 by $0.72. The firm had revenue of $59.89 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $58.33 billion. Meta Platforms had a net margin of 30.08% and a return on equity of 38.61%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 23.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $8.02 earnings per share. Equities research analysts forecast that Meta Platforms, Inc. will post 26.7 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Meta Platforms Announces Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, March 26th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 16th were issued a $0.525 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, March 16th. This represents a $2.10 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.3%. Meta Platforms’s dividend payout ratio is presently 8.94%.

Meta Platforms Profile

Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ: META), formerly Facebook, Inc, is a global technology company best known for building social networking services and immersive computing platforms. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company operates a family of consumer-facing products and services that connect users, creators and businesses. In October 2021 the company rebranded as Meta to reflect an expanded strategic focus on augmented and virtual reality technologies alongside its social media businesses.

Meta’s core consumer products include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, which enable social networking, messaging, content sharing and community building across mobile and desktop devices.