{"id":39817,"date":"2025-05-17T11:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T11:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/why-this-investment-bank-sees-more-than-30-upside-on-meta\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T11:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T11:35:17","slug":"why-this-investment-bank-sees-more-than-30-upside-on-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/why-this-investment-bank-sees-more-than-30-upside-on-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this investment bank sees more than 30% upside on Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Investment banking firm Loop Capital maintained its bullish stance on Meta platforms with a target price of $888.<\/p>\n

This indicates a 38% upside from Thursday\u2019s closing price.<\/p>\n

AI performance\u00a0<\/h2>\n

Loop Capital\u2019s analysts said that Facebook’s parent company\u2019s artificial intelligence-driven performance has made up for the drop in spending from Chinese advertisers. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to see Meta as the best non-hardware example of tangible, right-now beneficiary of AI and think the stock will outperform the \u2018mag-7\u2019 peer group this year,\u201d Loop Capital Analyst Rob Sanderson said. <\/p>\n

The analyst said the stock will be a beneficiary of non-hardware example of being a beneficiary of AI.<\/p>\n

The company increased its capital expenditure outlook for 2025 to invest more in data centres for AI. Meta plans to invest $72 billion in capital expenditure this year. <\/p>\n

While the analyst noted that current core AI investments are constrained by capacity, new data centre AI capacity is coming online. <\/p>\n

A behemoth concern<\/h2>\n

This positive note comes after a Wall Street Journal report<\/a> said that Meta is delaying the rollout of its \u201cBehemoth\u201d large language model. <\/p>\n

The Behemoth model was first slated to come out in April 2025 but was later pushed to June and now to fall or later, the report said. <\/p>\n

According to the report, Meta\u2019s engineers were concerned that Behemoth\u2019s performance couldn\u2019t match what the company\u2019s public statements. <\/p>\n

Meta had touted that Behemoth outperformed similar AI models of OpenAI, Google and Anthropic in some tests. <\/p>\n

After the report came, Meta\u2019s stock fell over 2% on Thursday. <\/p>\n

FTC monopoly case<\/h2>\n

Meta recently asked a federal judge to drop the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) case against the company. <\/p>\n

The company argued that the FTC failed to prove the antitrust case. <\/p>\n

FTC had accused Meta of dominating the social media market by buying out rival companies such as Instagram and WhatsApp to buy out the competition.<\/p>\n

The trial started in April, and the FTC is trying to show Meta was trying to buy out the competition a decade ago by pointing out emails of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg worrying about Instagram and WhatsApp\u2019s growth. <\/p>\n

If the judge doesn\u2019t drop the case, the trial may run into June as Meta is now presenting its own evidence against the charges. <\/p>\n

Meta stock continues to shine<\/h2>\n

Meta stock has gained over 7% in the year so far, emerging as the second-best-performing stock among the magnificent seven cohort of stocks in that period. <\/p>\n

Microsoft is the best performing stock with a 8% gain and Apple has been the worst performing among the group with a 13% decline. <\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s shares had gained over 28% in the last month as investors cheered strong Q1 results. <\/p>\n

The company had posted a 16% increase in revenue to $42.31 billion<\/a> against an expected $41.40 billion.<\/p>\n

 Its net income surged 35% to $16.64 billion. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Investment banking firm Loop Capital maintained its bullish stance on Meta platforms with a target price of $888. This indicates a 38% upside from Thursday\u2019s closing price. AI performance\u00a0 Loop Capital\u2019s analysts said that Facebook’s parent company\u2019s artificial intelligence-driven performance has made up for the drop in spending from Chinese advertisers.  \u201cWe continue to see <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-investing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}