{"id":1159,"date":"2025-06-18T16:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/meta-stock-muted-on-wednesday-but-analyst-sees-15-upside-ahead\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T16:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:42:49","slug":"meta-stock-muted-on-wednesday-but-analyst-sees-15-upside-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retrotradingreport.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/meta-stock-muted-on-wednesday-but-analyst-sees-15-upside-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta stock muted on Wednesday, but analyst sees 15% upside ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta stock was trading slightly in the green on Wednesday, in line with the broader market moves.<\/p>\n

The stock was up around 0.31% to trade at $699.15 shortly after market open on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 54 points, or 0.1%. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite also added 0.1% each.<\/p>\n

The gains followed a weak session on Tuesday, when mounting tensions between Israel and Iran weighed on investor sentiment.<\/p>\n

Meta’s stock move comes today as the social media giant received a massive price target raise.<\/p>\n

Why Cantor Fitzgerald is bullish on Meta<\/h2>\n

Cantor Fitzgerald raised its price target on Meta Platforms to $807 from $676 on Wednesday, reiterating an Overweight rating. <\/p>\n

The upward revision comes after Meta confirmed plans to introduce advertising on WhatsApp, including Promoted Channels and Status ads.<\/p>\n

The new ad formats are designed to preserve the platform\u2019s core messaging functionality by avoiding intrusion into the chat interface. <\/p>\n

WhatsApp currently sees over 3 billion monthly active users globally, including 100 million in the US, as disclosed during Meta\u2019s first-quarter earnings call.<\/p>\n

Additional metrics cited from the FTC vs Meta trial show WhatsApp\u2019s high engagement levels, with an 82% monthly-to-daily active user ratio, and each daily user reportedly viewing around 50 stories per day. <\/p>\n

Meta also reported that 1.5 billion users access the Updates tab daily.<\/p>\n

Cantor Fitzgerald estimates that if WhatsApp reaches an ad load of just 5%\u2014roughly one-quarter of Instagram and Facebook’s current levels\u2014the new monetization could add mid-single-digit growth to Meta\u2019s EBIT and EPS by fiscal 2027.<\/p>\n

Sam Altman says Meta offered $100 million bonuses to poach OpenAI staff<\/h2>\n

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has claimed that Meta Platforms offered signing bonuses of up to $100 million in an aggressive bid to recruit engineers from his company\u2014an approach he called \u201ccrazy\u201d and reflective of the escalating talent war in the artificial intelligence sector.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Uncapped, a podcast hosted by his brother Jack Altman, the OpenAI chief said Meta has been targeting top engineers at OpenAI with unprecedented compensation packages. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey started making giant offers to a lot of people on our team,\u201d Altman said in the interview released Tuesday. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, like $100 million signing bonuses, more than that in compensation per year. So far, none of our best people have decided to take them up on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Altman\u2019s comments come amid growing competition among tech giants to secure elite AI talent. <\/p>\n

Just days ago, Meta disclosed a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI, a data-labelling company integral to training advanced AI models. <\/p>\n

In a further escalation, Meta hired Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to head its new \u201csuperintelligence\u201d group\u2014a unit focused on frontier AI research and directly overseen by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n

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