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Meta Platforms has fallen about 35% from 2025 highs amid a bear market, while management continues ramping AI investment. The piece argues the AI push may justify higher outlays and a rerating, but investors want monetization beyond ads. With a forward P/E near 17.4x—below the S&P 500—the author views the drop as overdone and sees a compelling buy case given Meta’s scale and execution history despite near-term headwinds.
Meta Platforms’ stock tumbled toward capitulation as the 14‑day RSI hit 26.38, with shares near $552—down over 25% from its 52‑week high and more than 16% in the last month—despite analysts pricing in roughly $853 target (~55% upside). Technically, the stock has broken its 50‑ and 200‑day moving averages, signaling a trend shift. Two outcomes exist: a relief bounce if the selling exhausts itself, or further multiple compression if AI capex fears and legal headwinds persist, testing belief in Meta’s long‑term AI/monetization story.
Meta Platforms slid about 8% after lawsuits and regulatory risks sparked fears of a tobacco-style crackdown, erasing around $119 billion from its market value. Analysts say the drop may be overblown and point to Meta’s AI ambitions and a relatively reasonable forward earnings multiple, though the regulatory outlook remains a key overhang.
Meta Platforms (META) slid to a 52‑week low after California and New Mexico juries found its platforms negligent and failing to safeguard users, fueling concerns about ongoing lawsuits across the U.S. and abroad. The stock has dropped from its 52‑week high near $800, even as analysts maintain a Strong Buy consensus with an average target around $865, underscoring potential upside but leaving a cloud of litigation risk weighing on sentiment.
A New Mexico jury found Meta Platforms violated state consumer-protection law by misleading users about safety on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and enabling child exploitation, ordering $375 million in civil penalties; Meta says it will appeal as it faces broader scrutiny over youth safety and platform design.
Meta Platforms will lay off a few hundred employees across the company, with cuts concentrated in Reality Labs and across social media, recruiting operations, and a smaller number in sales, as it overhauls the business for the AI era.
Arm Holdings unveiled a pivot to selling its own data-center chips, introducing the Arm AGI CPU with Meta Platforms and OpenAI as initial customers. After a dip on the plan, the stock rose about 16% in a single day, the strongest gain in nearly a year, as investors weigh the growth potential of Arm’s chip business against established rivals like Intel and AMD.
Meta Platforms signed a five-year, $27 billion AI infrastructure deal with Nebius to secure $12 billion of dedicated GPU capacity starting in 2027, with an additional $15 billion of capacity to be purchased as Nebius scales, a move that underscores Nebius’s rapid growth and Nvidia partnerships in the neocloud race for AI processing power.
AMD inked a multi-year deal with Meta to supply 6 gigawatts of GPUs across multiple generations, plus warrants vesting with shipments and Meta as a lead customer for AMD’s 6th-generation EPYC CPUs. The arrangement, echoing AMD’s OpenAI deal, expands AMD’s AI/data-center opportunities and could attract more hyperscalers, helping the stock rebound after the news. While the market reaction was mixed, Motley Fool analysts remain bullish on AMD’s long-term AI growth, though the stock isn’t currently crowned among their top picks.
Meta’s internal AI-chip program hit roadblocks, scrapping its most advanced training chip and shifting to a less complex design, even as it pursues external chip deals with AMD and Nvidia to compete with Nvidia’s dominance.
AMD inks a strategic, warrant‑heavy deal with Meta to supply Instinct AI chips for Meta’s data centers and signal a broader push to win over other hyperscalers; the arrangement could help AMD hit a tenfold data‑center revenue target by 2030, but the upside relies on Meta’s adoption and on rival AI‑chip demand amid competition and the cost of warrants.
Advanced Micro Devices jumped after unveiling a multiyear agreement to supply Meta with 6 gigawatts of GPUs for Meta’s AI infrastructure, plus a performance-based warrant for up to 160 million AMD shares (~10% stake), signaling a bold push into AI data centers and potentially widening the gap with Nvidia despite dilution concerns.
U.S. stocks rebounded from Monday’s AI- and tariff-related pressure, with the Nasdaq up about 1%, the S&P 500 around 0.6%, and the Dow about 0.8%, as AMD led a tech rally after expanding its AI‑chip deal with Meta; Nvidia earnings loom and software names rose on AI partnerships amid ongoing trade uncertainty.
Meta has struck a multibillion-dollar deal with AMD to buy 6 gigawatts of custom MI450 AI chips to accelerate its AI models, while AMD granted Meta a performance-based warrant to buy up to 160 million AMD shares at $0.01, with the first tranche due in H2 as the initial gigawatt ships; the arrangement could yield about a 10% stake in AMD over time, echoing OpenAI’s deal, and sent AMD stock higher pre-market. Meta plans to spend up to $135bn on AI infra this year and seeks to diversify beyond Nvidia, using the chips mainly for inference workloads that require 6GW; the warrant expires Feb 2031 and final tranche triggers at $600 per share.
Moody's warns that current US accounting rules may hide tens of billions in data-centre liabilities for Big Tech by allowing SPV-backed structures and renewal guarantees to stay off balance sheets; lease renewals and residual value guarantees may not be fully recorded unless deemed probable or reasonably certain. Meta and Oracle are among users; Meta's Hyperion facility via Beignet Investor involves a four-year lease with renewal options up to 20 years and RVG guarantees up to $28bn not recorded as of end-2025. Moody's would adjust debt to reflect likely renewal periods or RVG triggers, which could affect credit ratings and access to funding for AI data centres.