Meta Platforms Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

WBAG:META Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
15 Nov 24	Sell€2,766,634	Andrew Bosworth	Individual	5,057	€547.09
20 Aug 24	Sell€4,151,729	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	8,727	€478.02
15 Aug 24	Sell€543,344	Nick Clegg	Individual	1,133	€479.56
15 Aug 24	Sell€2,425,147	Andrew Bosworth	Individual	5,057	€479.56
02 Aug 24	Sell€32,081	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	70	€458.30
15 Jul 24	Sell€2,149,292	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	4,671	€463.76
11 Jul 24	Sell€3,898,452	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	8,178	€490.65
03 Jul 24	Sell€8,176,033	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	17,454	€472.68
26 Jun 24	Sell€6,568,834	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	13,812	€480.25
20 Jun 24	Sell€1,308,755	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	2,792	€468.75
18 Jun 24	Sell€1,784,629	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	3,809	€470.18
14 Jun 24	Sell€4,106,742	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	8,727	€473.49
13 Jun 24	Sell€4,046,986	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	8,631	€471.77
13 Jun 24	Sell€45,429	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	96	€473.22
15 May 24	Sell€2,195,927	Andrew Bosworth	Individual	5,058	€434.15
15 Feb 24	Sell€3,535,147	Andrew Bosworth	Individual	8,036	€439.91
13 Feb 24	Sell€5,075,992	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	11,620	€446.11
31 Jan 24	Sell€219,190	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	600	€366.05
02 Jan 24	Sell€50,398	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation, Endowment Arm	Company	157	€322.21

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: META insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of META?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	0	0%
Public Companies	13,907	0.000551%
State or Government	2,313,895	0.0917%
Individual Insiders	345,625,850	13.7%
General Public	481,507,048	19.1%
Institutions	1,695,027,833	67.1%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 55.47% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
13.6%	Mark Zuckerberg	343,500,055	€192.7b	-0.12%	no data
7.51%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	189,695,452	€106.4b	0.21%	1.66%
6.42%	BlackRock, Inc.	162,090,377	€90.9b	0.61%	1.54%
5.19%	FMR LLC	131,104,731	€73.5b	-0.39%	4.59%
4.24%	Capital Research and Management Company	107,027,928	€60.0b	-2.83%	3.02%
3.37%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	84,996,038	€47.7b	-1.46%	1.86%
1.91%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	48,160,608	€27.0b	1.47%	2.0%
1.73%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	43,777,390	€24.6b	-0.33%	2.27%
1.52%	JP Morgan Asset Management	38,349,553	€21.5b	0.73%	2.56%
1.21%	Norges Bank Investment Management	30,461,739	€17.1b	0%	1.46%
0.84%	UBS Asset Management AG	21,281,475	€11.9b	1.75%	1.24%
0.82%	Northern Trust Global Investments	20,657,733	€11.6b	-3.63%	1.87%
0.73%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	18,469,834	€10.4b	7.97%	1.27%
0.7%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	17,610,749	€9.9b	-2.13%	1.88%
0.62%	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund	15,573,907	€8.7b	0.58%	2.24%
0.61%	AllianceBernstein L.P.	15,299,126	€8.6b	9.03%	2.74%
0.57%	Jennison Associates LLC	14,440,868	€8.1b	1.86%	4.82%
0.56%	BNY Asset Management	14,251,564	€8.0b	-3.85%	1.65%
0.55%	Eaton Vance Management	13,934,007	€7.8b	1.99%	1.91%
0.55%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	13,828,670	€7.8b	0.87%	1.36%
0.51%	Sanders Capital, LLC	12,850,907	€7.2b	0.09%	10.72%
0.43%	Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.	10,928,536	€6.1b	5.03%	1.72%
0.43%	Invesco Ltd.	10,801,281	€6.1b	0.87%	1.71%
0.43%	Wellington Management Group LLP	10,739,784	€6.0b	-6.72%	1.01%
0.41%	GQG Partners LLC	10,416,104	€5.8b	-3.2%	5.14%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/22 01:09
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/20 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

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Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Meta Platforms, Inc. is covered by 97 analysts. 64 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
David Heasman	Accountability Research Corporation
Richard Kramer	Arete Research Services LLP
Joseph Bonner	Argus Research Company