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Meta Platforms shares were sliding in late trading Wednesday after the social media giant reported disappointing second-quarter results, and a third-quarter ...

Meta's second-quarter earnings report comes after a 50% plunge in the company's stock price this year.

Meta is promoting Susan Li, the company's current vice president of finance, to be CFO. Those costs jumped 10% year-over-year to $3.6 billion in the second quarter. A hefty amount of spending is going into Meta's Reality Labs unit, which is responsible for developing the metaverse and related virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. Earlier this week, Meta raised the price of its Quest 2 VR headset by $100, citing rising production and shipping costs. Meta said that its headcount increased 32% from a year earlier to 83,553. Revenue in the second quarter fell almost 1% from a year earlier. The earnings call was the last for Sheryl Sandberg, Meta's operating chief, who announced in June that she's leaving the company after 14 years. However, despite Facebook's investment in Reels, the product doesn't generate revenue as efficiently as Instagram Stories and the main news feed. "These continue to be turbulent times for the global economy," Sandberg said. Facebook's troubling results follow a trend started last week by rivals Snap and reported disappointing second-quarter numbers, and executives cited economic and mobile platform challenges that have permeated the online ad market. That unit has been hurt by Apple's iOS privacy update last year, limiting Meta's ability to track users, and by a weakening economy that's led some companies to slash their ad budgets. The shares dropped 3.8% in extended trading.

Facebook parent Meta saw its stock plunge in after-hours trading on Wednesday following second-quarter earnings results that came in below expectations, ...

Though most analysts remain bullish about the company’s long-term growth, some remain cautious about the company’s “ ability to sustain profits” amid a challenging environment in the short-term. The company noted it faced “weak advertising demand environment” throughout the second quarter, citing the “broader macroeconomic uncertainty” as a driving factor. Meta has lost roughly half of its market value this year, with the stock down 50%, amid the wider market selloff that has hit the tech sector especially hard.

Meta reported its first-ever year-over-year decline in revenue on Wednesday, and profit declined for a third consecutive quarter, the first time that has...

How Meta fares in the near future rests in large part on its audience, which establishes advertising rates and frequency. “Facebook’s awful quarter and weak outlook further underline the view that advertisers have been cutting back on spending as the overall economy battles with inflation, higher interest rates and shifting consumer patterns,” Investing.com senior analyst Jesse Cohen said. Both results missed the average forecast for profit of $2.54 a share and sales of $28.9 billion, according to analysts polled by FactSet. Meta META, +6.55%reported its first-ever year-over-year decline in revenue on Wednesday, and profit declined for a third consecutive quarter, the first time that has happened since Facebook’s first year as a public company, in 2012. But I’d say that the situation seems worse than it did a quarter ago.” Susan Li, Meta’s vice president of finance, will take over the CFO role. Last week, shares of Snap Inc. SNAP,and Twitter Inc. TWTR,nosedived after they reported weak results. Meta executives issued a third-quarter revenue forecast of $26 billion to $28.5 billion, while analysts were forecasting $30.36 billion. “Any company that wants to have a lasting impact must practice disciplined prioritization and work with a high level of intensity to reach goals,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement to MarketWatch. “The reports about these efforts are consistent with this focus and what we’ve already shared publicly about our operating style.” “And it’s always hard to predict how deep or how long these cycles will be. Facebook reported revenue of $29.01 billion in the third quarter last year. Tellingly, Zuckerberg added that artificial intelligence-driven recommendations from accounts that aren’t followed comprised just 15% in Facebook and a “little more” in Instagram. That percentage, he said, will more than double by the end of 2023.

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Meta Platforms — Shares of the social media company dipped 3% in extended trading after missing ...

Best Buy — Shares of the consumer electronics retailer slipped 2% after it trimmed its guidance for the fiscal year. Analysts expected earnings of 31 cents a share on $556 million in revenue, according to Refinitiv. Ford posted adjusted earnings of 68 cents a share on $37.91 billion in revenue.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META 6.55%) has been a growth stock juggernaut. It's gone from a start-up founded by a teenager in a Harvard dorm room to a ...

If Meta can't overcome at least some of the challenges above and return to stable revenue growth in the next year, it might be time to click the "unfriend" button and drop it from your portfolio. Even after the second-quarter report, its price-to-earnings ratio is just 14, which puts Meta on par with no-growth legacy tech firms like IBM and is significantly cheaper than the S&P 500's P/E ratio at 20.3, meaning Meta stock now trades like a value stock rather than a growth stock. Worse, management said it expected Reality Labs revenue to decline sequentially in the third quarter, a sign its Quest VR headsets aren't gaining traction as hoped. In some ways, Meta has gone from being the disruptor to being disrupted, and in keeping up with TikTok, it now faces the same innovator's dilemma that other legacy media companies have struggled with in the past. Revenue in its Reality Labs segment grew 48% to $452 million in the quarter, but it posted an operating loss of $2.8 billion in the metaverse division. In fact, investors have been skeptical of the social media giant for a while, as it's traded at a modest price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio for years. Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission announced a lawsuit to block Meta's acquisition of Within, a virtual reality fitness app. That's a sign the company has little growth left from its user base, which has reached roughly 3.65 billion by its broadest measure, about half the world's population. On a constant currency basis, revenue would have increased 3% as the stronger dollar added to the headwinds. Adjusting for currency exchange, revenue growth is expected to be flat in Q3. Facebook parent Meta Platforms ( META 0.16%) has been a growth stock juggernaut. For the first time ever, the company reported a quarterly decline in revenue in its Wednesday earnings report.

Shares of Meta fell 8% on Thursday, a day after the company released second quarter earnings that missed on the top and bottom lines.

"The Reels monetization ramp seems slow," UBS' Lloyd Walmsley said in a note to investors. Meta also issued a disappointing third-quarter forecast, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a call with analysts that the company reduce headcount as it prepares for the economic slowdown. He added that the "economic downturn will have a broad impact on the digital advertising business," which has already been hit by Apple's privacy changes.

Meta stock is falling on its earnings report but is holding key support at $155. Here's the trade.

Meta stock is holding key support in the $155 area. This measure has been pressuring the shares lower since January and was a significant trend killer in the second quarter. Here’s the thing, though: Meta stock rallied more than 6.5% on Wednesday ahead of the earnings report. Unlike Microsoft, Alphabet and Shopify, however, Meta stock is not rallying on the day. More or less, we’re just seeing some volatile, choppy trading near the low end of the range. Meta investors are likely not surprised by its miss on sales and profit.