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Meta Platforms, Inc., [10] doing business as Meta, [11] and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., [12] [13] is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. [14]
The next day of trading after the IPO (May 21), the stock closed below its offering price, at $34.03. [41] The stock saw another large loss the next day, closing at $31.00. [41] A 'circuit breaker' was used in an attempt to slow down the decline in the stock price. [42] The stock increased modestly in coming days, and Facebook closed its first ...
Facebook provides a development platform for many social gaming, communication, feedback, review, and other applications related to online activities. This platform spawned many businesses and added thousands of jobs to the global economy. Zynga Inc., a leader in social gaming, is an example of such a business.
The stock struggled to stay above the IPO price for most of the day, forcing underwriters to buy back shares to support the price. [112] At closing bell, shares were valued at $38.23, [ 113 ] only $0.23 above the IPO price and down $3.82 from the opening bell value.
v. t. e. Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Meta also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly ...
In January 2021, a short squeeze of the stock of the American video game retailer GameStop and other securities took place, causing major financial consequences for certain hedge funds and large losses for short sellers. Approximately 140 percent of GameStop's public float had been sold short, and the rush to buy shares to cover those positions ...
An economy where the stock market is on the rise is considered to be an up-and-coming economy. The stock market is often considered the primary indicator of a country's economic strength and development. [21] Rising share prices, for instance, tend to be associated with increased business investment and vice versa.
A daily volume chart of the S&P 500 index from January 3, 1950, to February 19, 2016. Logarithmic Chart of S&P 500 Index with and without Inflation and with Best Fit and other graphs to Feb 2024. The Standard and Poor's 500, or simply the S&P 500, [ 5] is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies listed ...