METAMeta Platforms

Communication Services

$641.72-9.6% 1Y

$641.72

$525.2352 weeks$775.96

Is the price fair?

Good

Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap against its own history.

2 good, 1 neutral

What the price assumes~+20% a year

Priced for ~20% a year FCF growth. The price demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 24% a year, expectations look modest.

Vs its own P/E rangecheaper than 83% of its own historyderived

Cheap vs its own history: P/E 21.9 vs a 26.2 median over 42 quarters (−17% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)20.7×

Sector median 18.9× across 43 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Sep 30, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

P/E (valuation)middle of the market

FCF yieldbottom 10% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What META's price assumes

Meta Platforms trades at 21.9× earnings against 14.1× for the median Internet Content & Information name, more expensive than its own group.

21.9

Trailing P/E · Internet Content & Information median 14.1 · 1.55× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 6.79
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 1.8%
Free cash flow yield · Internet Content & Information median 7.5%
Growth the price implies: +20%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +20% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −9.0% a year over the last three.

Details›

Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026: 6.02
EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026: 20.7
EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026: 6.79
Communication Services median P/E135 names: 16.2
Internet Content & Information median P/E36 names: 14.1
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months: $28.6B
Market capitalisation2.56 billion shares, counted Oct 16, 2026: $1.64T
3-year revenue growth: +24%
3-year free cash flow growth: −9.0%

What the market has paid for these earnings: 42 quarters of its own multiple × $29.32 of trailing earnings per share
Method	Per share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile	$705.67
Its own P/E history, median	$769.18
Its own P/E history, upper quartile	$913.32
52-week range	$525.23 – $775.96
Today	$641.72

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.