Meta (META) stock & equity tools

Meta Platforms, Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms and communication services, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. The company also operates an advertising network for its own sites and third parties; as of 2023, advertising accounted for 97.8 percent of its total revenue. Meta has been described as a part of Big Tech, which refers to the largest six tech companies in the United States, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, and Nvidia, which are also the largest companies in the world by market capitalization.

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In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes launched Facebook from Harvard's dormitories. The company went public on Nasdaq in May 2012 and used its balance sheet on two defining acquisitions: Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014. In October 2021 Facebook Inc. rebranded to Meta Platforms to signal a strategic pivot toward virtual and augmented reality. Meta reported $164 billion in revenue in 2024, with advertising across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounting for approximately 98% of the total.

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Equity comp at Meta

• RSUs use single-trigger vesting: shares become yours as each portion vests on schedule, and the value is taxed as ordinary income at that point. No IPO or acquisition is required.

Researched 2026-05-07.