All articles tagged with "META"
Meta's Family of Apps earns a 51.5% operating margin. Its ROIC is declining at -6.3 points per quarter. Both facts are true simultaneously. The gap between them reveals everything about the largest AI infrastructure bet in advertising history — and the accounting policies designed to make it look cheaper than it is.
Morgan Stanley estimates 99% of software FCF goes to stock-based compensation. But the impact varies dramatically: Snowflake's SBC is 14x higher than Amazon's as a percentage of revenue. Our Filing Intelligence analysis reveals which companies offset dilution - and which leave shareholders holding the bill.
Learn how to monitor $370B in AI infrastructure spending quarterly with a 3-metric framework. Track capex/revenue trends, depreciation manipulation signals, and growth alignment across Google, Microsoft, Amazon & Meta. Updated December 2025 with Meta's $600B commitment and Michael Burry's depreciation thesis.
Michael Burry warns Big Tech will understate depreciation by $176B through 2028. Amazon is taking a contrarian approach—shortening useful lives and accepting a $700M profit hit while peers extend to boost earnings. Learn how to screen for earnings quality using the capex/depreciation ratio.
The Magnificent 7 make up 35% of the S&P 500. But comparing them all using P/E ratios is methodologically flawed—they span 5 distinct business models. Our sector-adjusted scorecard reveals GOOGL as best value (17.4x P/E), TSLA as most overvalued (85% optionality premium), and which stocks actually EARN their premiums.