Here's Why Meta Platforms (META) is a Strong Growth Stock
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Why This 1 Growth Stock Should Be On Your Watchlist
Growth investors build their portfolios around companies that are financially strong and have a bright future, and the Growth Style Score helps take projected and historical earnings, sales, and cash flow into account to uncover stocks that will see long-term, sustainable growth.
Meta Platforms (META)
Meta Platforms is the world’s largest social media platform. The company’s portfolio offering evolved from a single Facebook app to multiple apps like photo and video sharing app Instagram and WhatsApp messaging app owing to acquisitions. Along with in-house developed Messenger, these apps now form Meta’s family of products used by almost 3.24 billion people on a daily basis as of Mar 31, 2024.
META sits at a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), holds a Growth Style Score of A, and has a VGM Score of B. Earnings and sales are forecasted to increase 35.6% and 17.8% year-over-year, respectively.
Two analysts revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days for fiscal 2024. The Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.03 to $20.16 per share. META boasts an average earnings surprise of 13.3%.
Meta Platforms is also cash rich. The company has generated cash flow growth of 13.7%, and is expected to report cash flow expansion of 42.7% in 2024.
META should be on investors' short lists because of its impressive growth fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Growth and VGM Style Scores.
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