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Company Dossier · Information Technology

Meta Platforms Inc.

METANasdaqInteractive MediaWILMINGTON, US-DE, USMega capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • S&P 100
  • Nasdaq-100
  • Russell 1000

What Meta Platforms Inc. is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

Open the full company record in Palanor: guidance, KPIs, ownership, calls, prices →

The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $228 billion, up 28% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $41.0 billion, down 18% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $89.3 billion, up 71% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $26.3 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $29.9 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (July 29, 2026): sentiment 0.80 on a −1 to +1 scale (confident, opportunity-framed), confidence 0.90 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 5 outlook figures raised, 0 lowered, 0 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed January 29, 2026): 0 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $105 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 5,098 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (−13 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 2,631 (2,193 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
  • Headlines in the last 30 days: 17, of which 4 read positive and 4 negative.Palanor headline tone

Risk events (12 months): 1 — latest OSHA inspection, Aug 10, 2026 →

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What Meta Platforms Inc. is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Steady · Confident

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Steady

RetrenchingExpanding

Confident ↔ Hedging

Confident

HedgingConfident

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Credit

How these are built →

Meta Platforms Inc.'s borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Debt on the balance sheet

$83.7B

  • Due within a year $0.0B
  • Longer term $83.7B
  • Default point $41.8B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Jun 30, 2026 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

$55.0B

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

PricedAmountCouponMaturesSpreadYield
Apr 30, 2026$4B6.450%2066 (40y)+147bp6.460%
Apr 30, 2026$3B4.550%2031 (5y)+53bp4.553%
Apr 30, 2026$2B4.875%2033 (7y)+68bp4.881%
Apr 30, 2026$6B5.250%2036 (10y)+90bp5.286%
Apr 30, 2026$4B6.200%2046 (20y)+122bp6.201%
Apr 30, 2026$6B6.300%2056 (30y)+132bp6.310%
Oct 30, 2025$6.5B4.875%2035 (10y)+78bp4.877%
Oct 30, 2025$6.5B5.625%2055 (30y)+98bp5.637%
Oct 30, 2025$4.5B5.750%2065 (40y)+110bp5.757%
Oct 30, 2025$4B4.200%2030 (5y)+50bp4.226%
Oct 30, 2025$4B4.600%2032 (7y)+70bp4.601%
Oct 30, 2025$4.5B5.500%2045 (20y)+88bp5.515%

From the pricing term sheets Meta Platforms Inc. filed with the SEC. Spread is to the benchmark Treasury (or Bund, Gilt) at pricing.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$41.0BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$228.3BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$26.3BData to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: debt maturity schedule, latest annual report

Scheduled repayments of long-term debt principal by year from the fiscal year end, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Dec 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

66Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

2.0Data today
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.80Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.90Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

0.0Data to Jan 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

2,631Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$105.3MData 22 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Meta Platforms Inc.: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

5,098Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

In the news

Headlines that name Meta Platforms Inc., with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
17 headlines
24% positive · 24% negative
90 days
17 headlines
24% positive · 24% negative

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 21, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  2. Oct 21, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (STERNHELL GROUP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  3. Oct 21, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (HARBINGER STRATEGIES, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  4. Oct 21, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (535 GROUP, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  5. Oct 21, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (ELEVATE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  6. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (AVOQ, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
  7. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (JEFFRIES STRATEGIES LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  8. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES)third_quarter 2026 · $5.9 million
  9. Oct 20, 2026Lobbying
    Lobbying report (CAPITOL TAX PARTNERS, LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
  10. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTOCOL DATA UNIT (PDU) SET DISCARDUS 12771647
  11. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATIONUS 12765786
  12. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: FRESNEL LENS WITH ORGANIC SOLID CRYSTALSUS 12769035
  13. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: VIRTUAL REALITY GARMENT CAPABLE OF JAMMING USER MOVEMENTUS RE51087
  14. Oct 20, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: GUIDING A USER OF AN ARTIFICIAL REALITY SYSTEM TO A PHYSICAL OBJECT HAVING A TRACKABLE FEATURE USING SPATIAL AUDIO CUESUS 12768655
  15. Oct 2, 2026Trademark
    Trademark application: POCKET
  16. Oct 2, 2026Trademark
    Trademark application: POCKET
  17. Oct 2, 2026Trademark
    Trademark application: POCKET
  18. Oct 2, 2026Trademark
    Trademark application: POCKET
  19. Oct 2, 2026Trademark
    Trademark application: POCKET
  20. Aug 10, 2026Risk event
    OSHA complaint inspection: RAVEN NORTHBROOK, LLC.OSHA
  21. May 29, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  22. Apr 14, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  23. Jan 29, 202610-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  24. Jan 16, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  25. Dec 19, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  26. May 30, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  27. Apr 11, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  28. Feb 20, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  29. Jan 30, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  30. Jan 6, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  31. Feb 2, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)3 risk factors added, 1 removed

Peers

Companies in the same industry in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Alphabet Inc. (Class A) GOOGL$446B$53.3BJun 30, 2026
NVIDIA Corporation NVDA$303B$127BJul 26, 2026
Microsoft Corporation MSFT$332B$67.0BJun 30, 2026
Dell Technologies DELL$151B$8.6BJul 31, 2026
Micron Technology MU$133B$59.0BSep 3, 2026
Apple Inc. AAPL$467B$137BJun 27, 2026
Broadcom Inc. AVGO$89.1B$39.4BAug 2, 2026
TD Synnex SNX$75.7B−$0.8BAug 31, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
1326801
LEI
BQ4BKCS1HXDV9HN80Z93
Wikidata
Q380
SAM UEI
QQESPKRHTCJ7

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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