Artemis Wealth Advisors LLC Has $6.61 Million Holdings in Meta Platforms, Inc. $META

Artemis Wealth Advisors LLC trimmed its holdings in shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) by 21.1% during the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 9,000 shares of the social networking company’s stock after selling 2,400 shares during the period. Meta Platforms makes up 0.7% of Artemis Wealth Advisors LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 11th largest holding. Artemis Wealth Advisors LLC’s holdings in Meta Platforms were worth $6,609,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Goldstone Financial Group LLC raised its holdings in shares of Meta Platforms by 44.4% in the 3rd quarter. Goldstone Financial Group LLC now owns 3,752 shares of the social networking company’s stock worth $2,756,000 after acquiring an additional 1,153 shares during the last quarter. CW Advisors LLC boosted its stake in Meta Platforms by 27.8% during the 2nd quarter. CW Advisors LLC now owns 176,762 shares of the social networking company’s stock valued at $130,467,000 after purchasing an additional 38,432 shares during the last quarter. Ashton Thomas Private Wealth LLC increased its holdings in Meta Platforms by 34.2% during the 3rd quarter. Ashton Thomas Private Wealth LLC now owns 52,252 shares of the social networking company’s stock worth $38,373,000 after purchasing an additional 13,311 shares in the last quarter. Cherokee Insurance Co bought a new stake in Meta Platforms during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $3,321,000. Finally, Becker Capital Management Inc. raised its stake in shares of Meta Platforms by 5.0% in the third quarter. Becker Capital Management Inc. now owns 35,052 shares of the social networking company’s stock worth $25,741,000 after purchasing an additional 1,657 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 79.91% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting Meta Platforms

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

• Positive Sentiment: Meta acquired Moltbook, a viral social network built for AI agents, and will bring Moltbook founders into its Superintelligence Labs — a hire-and-build move that strengthens Meta’s AI research and product roadmap, reinforcing the company’s long-term AI leadership case. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: AMD announced a multiyear mega-deal to supply large-scale AI compute infrastructure to Meta — this supports Meta’s ability to scale AI training and products, and signals capital deployment toward compute that underpins revenue-generating AI services. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: High-profile investor interest and bullish commentary (e.g., Bill Ackman inclusion and articles naming Meta a leading Magnificent 7 pick) are supporting sentiment and could attract fresh inflows into META shares. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Meta publicly denied reports that CEO Mark Zuckerberg sidelined Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, aiming to shore up internal stability and reassure investors about continuity in AI leadership. This reduces short-term governance uncertainty. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun’s startup AMI raised ~$1.03B on a large valuation — a sign of strong investor appetite for alternative AI approaches and a reminder that top AI talent and innovation can show up outside Meta; potential competitive signal but not an immediate revenue threat. Article Title
• Negative Sentiment: Meta will charge advertisers a location fee (2%–5%) to offset digital services taxes in some European countries — this raises the effective cost to advertisers, could pressure ad demand or margins in the region, and is being adopted by other big ad platforms as well. Article Title
• Negative Sentiment: A Dutch appeals court upheld a ruling requiring Meta to offer chronological feeds in the Netherlands, limiting use of profiling-based ranking there — a regulatory/operational constraint that could increase compliance costs and set precedents for other jurisdictions. Article Title

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

META has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Erste Group Bank upgraded Meta Platforms from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, March 5th. Mizuho increased their price target on Meta Platforms from $815.00 to $850.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 29th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on Meta Platforms from $800.00 to $825.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $860.00 price objective (up from $750.00) on shares of Meta Platforms in a report on Thursday, January 29th. Finally, DA Davidson upped their target price on shares of Meta Platforms from $825.00 to $850.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-nine have assigned a Buy rating and seven have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, Meta Platforms has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $844.44.

Insider Transactions at Meta Platforms

In related news, CTO Andrew Bosworth sold 8,089 shares of Meta Platforms stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $631.24, for a total value of $5,106,100.36. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer owned 2,841 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,793,352.84. This trade represents a 74.01% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Susan J. Li sold 56,571 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, February 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $644.70, for a total value of $36,471,323.70. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 159,891 shares of company stock worth $102,464,356. 13.61% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Meta Platforms Trading Up 1.0%

Shares of META stock opened at $654.07 on Wednesday. The company has a quick ratio of 2.60, a current ratio of 2.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27. The firm has a market cap of $1.65 trillion, a P/E ratio of 27.83, a PEG ratio of 1.00 and a beta of 1.30. The company has a 50 day moving average of $654.53 and a 200-day moving average of $679.33. Meta Platforms, Inc. has a 12-month low of $479.80 and a 12-month high of $796.25.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January 28th. The social networking company reported $8.88 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $8.16 by $0.72. Meta Platforms had a return on equity of 38.61% and a net margin of 30.08%.The business had revenue of $59.89 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $58.33 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $8.02 earnings per share. Meta Platforms’s revenue was up 23.8% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Meta Platforms, Inc. will post 26.7 earnings per share for the current year.

Meta Platforms Announces Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, March 26th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 16th will be paid a dividend of $0.525 per share. The ex-dividend date is 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%.

About Meta Platforms

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.