Is Meta stock expected to rise?

Meta stock is forecast to continue to rise in value due to a combination of consistent advertising income and innovations in spaces like AI.

Will Meta reach $1000?

Given that Meta stock is already more than $650, it's not unreasonable to believe that it eventually could reach $1,000. This assumes there aren't any stock splits that occur, which would then drop the price again (but provide existing shareholders with additional shares).

Is Meta a good stock to buy?

Meta has been a solidly performing company for years, and has a secure user base that seems to only be growing -- both very good signs for stocks that you may be considering buying. Whether or not it's a good stock for you depends on your own view on tech stocks, and if you are looking for longer term or shorter term purchases, among other things.

What is the Meta stock forecast for 2030?

In 2030, Meta's stock is forecast to reach about $944 per share as an average annualized price for the year. This means that it could be higher some months and lower some months, but that's the average that is currently expected, if nothing changes dramatically about how the company is run.

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Key Points

Meta's 2026 stock price forecast shows strong Wall Street support, targeting an average of $832.
Meta's heavy AI and metaverse investments add financial risk despite its substantial ad revenue.
By 2030, Meta's long-term growth could elevate its stock to an average price of $944.12 per share.

Meta, the parent company of a range of social media apps that include Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Whatsapp, is a company that has been accused of basically printing its own money due to the success of its platforms. With more than 3.54 billion daily active users, it's hard to argue with that sentiment. But what about the stock price? Let's take a look at a Meta stock price prediction that includes 2026 and 2030 inside.

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NASDAQ: META

Meta Platforms

Today's Change

(-2.79%) $-18.53

Current Price

$646.01

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$1.6T

Day's Range

$626.00 - $652.21

52wk Range

$520.26 - $796.25

Volume

1.4M

Avg Vol

18.2M

Gross Margin

81.94%

Dividend Yield

0.33%

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However, due to its nature as a company that prints money, it's also a company that spends money like it's water, and it's doing that currently with artificial intelligence (AI) projects and metaverse experimentation that have so far not proven to be especially viable financially. So, all that enthusiasm should be tempered with a great deal of skepticism and care, realizing that most companies can't convince the public to run their stock prices up as much as Wall Street expects. The analysis from CoinCodex, a technical trading website, puts the stock's price for 2026 much lower -- around $473 as an average annualized stock price.

The truth is probably somewhere in between. There's no doubt that Meta is unusually successful, but that doesn't mean it has a limitless value or that it won't hit a growth plateau as it matures. At 20 years of age, a plateau could be just around the corner.

2030 forecast

The longer-term fortune of Meta is a different story. It's not if Meta will be successful, but how successful this company will become. Even CoinCodex is convinced of its long-term ability to increase share prices, predicting an average annualized price of $944.12 for 2030.

This is a company on the move, and one that has generally been a huge winner for shareholders with long-term mindsets.

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Meta's highlights and risks

There have been a lot of things coming out of Meta's research and development (R&D) that could affect its stock price, especially if those things continue to be black pits that money goes into and never comes back from. Here are some highlights and risks to consider.

The metaverse. Meta continues to pour money into its metaverse project, despite most other companies pretty much abandoning the metaverse years ago. The bulky headsets and proprietary worlds are just not being adopted by users, and Meta is wasting a lot of money on these projects that are going nowhere.
Meta AI (aka Llama). Meta's AI project, "Llama," on the other hand, is a uniquely positioned project that could be used to turn the buckets of money that Meta makes daily into absolute rivers of money. Although agentic AI is a long-term dream, this tool has access to every social media post that has ever happened on Facebook, as well as its deep well of user data, which could allow it to become an incredibly powerful advertising tool for the company and its users.
Population density. Despite the kids these days claiming that only grandmothers are still on Facebook, the entire universe of Meta social media platforms caters to most age groups, allowing it access to everyone for advertising everything. This is not lost on businesses that continue to pour money into these platforms, and thus into Meta's Scrooge McDuck-sized swimming pool of cash.

Despite the mostly good coming out of Meta these days, it's important to understand that the core business is advertising, and the main way it's being evaluated is as a tech business. This combination is not exactly investor-friendly, since the tech side can make it very volatile when things go against expectations, and the advertising business can be cyclical as the economy ebbs and flows. Even so, the company has created a competitive moat for itself that's pretty impenetrable, and could lead to massive stock prices for even long-term investors who buy now.

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About the Author

Kristi Waterworth has been a contributing real estate and financial expert at The Motley Fool, covering real estate, investing, and personal finance topics, since 2020. Kristi has been interviewed by various TV media outlets and podcasts for her real estate investing expertise – from residential real estate to digital real estate and everything in between. Kristi’s journalist career spans over 25 years, and she has written about real estate investing, homeownership, and home construction specifically for the last decade. She was also previously a licensed Realtor and general building contractor before the Great Recession and housing market collapse. She holds a bachelor’s degree in American history from Columbia College in Missouri.

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Kristi Waterworth has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Meta Platforms. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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What is the Meta stock forecast for 2030?

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Meta's highlights and risks

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