Citizens JMP Sticks to Its Buy Rating for Meta Platforms (META)
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In addition to Citizens JMP, Meta Platforms also received a Buy from Piper Sandler's Thomas Champion in a report issued today. However, on July 3, Needham upgraded Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) to a Hold.
META market cap is currently $1842.3B and has a P/E ratio of 28.37.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 293 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is positive on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders buying their shares of META in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in May 2025, Javier Olivan, the COO of META bought 5,470.00 shares for a total of $3,522,023.60.
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