Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) Stock Price Prediction for 2025: Where Will It Be in 1 Year (May 15)

So far this year, one of the better performers among Magnificent 7 has been Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META). That’s not to say the gains have been enormous, but compared to the broad market, Meta shares have been outperforming and are currently up 11.2% year to date. For comparison, other Magnificent 7 members have had it a lot worse. Look no further than Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), which are down 6.6% and 16.1%, respectively, in 2025.

Furthermore, a strong first-quarter earnings report lends credence to the claim that Meta will continue to outshine its competitors over the next year. That belief has been bolstered by its recent performance. Since hitting its year-to-date low on April 21, the stock has rallied 31.4%. The near-term future of the economy is uncertain — just like the markets themselves — and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a controversial figure. Certainly, Zuckerberg’s sudden shift to the metaverse and brand name change to Meta Platforms raised a few eyebrows several years ago.

Now, however, the Meta Platforms CEO is shifting the company’s focus and riding a powerful, bullish trend. Against this complex backdrop with many moving parts, investors should consider the wide range of Meta stock price targets and formulate a strategy for all possible outcomes. To help, 24/7 Wall St. conducted some analysis. Let’s jump in.

Why Invest in Meta Platforms?

Let’s start off by addressing the elephant in the room. Investors should not rely on Meta Platforms’ Reality Labs metaverse business to drive the company’s near-term future growth. In Q1 2025, Reality Labs generated $412 million in revenue, down from $440 million in the year-earlier quarter. During that same time frame, Reality Labs recorded a loss from operations of $4.21 billion, which is even worse than the $3.846 billion loss from 2024’s first quarter.

Unless there’s a miraculous turnaround for Reality Labs, Meta Platforms investors should hope that Zuckerberg does not decide to double down on the metaverse this year. Fortunately, it appears that the CEO’s attention has turned to a different tech field lately. In particular, Zuckerberg seems to expect AI to be Meta Platforms’ key driver for 2025. AI integrations into Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp could provide an economic moat for Meta Platforms if new features translate to greater user engagement. WhatsApp, in particular, has seen notable growth with more than 3 billion monthly users now. 

Meta Platforms’ AI focus evidently helped the company succeed in the first quarter of the year despite losses in its metaverse business. Impressively, Meta Platforms grew its revenue 16% year over year to $42.314 billion, beating Wall Street’s consensus call for $41.3 billion. Furthermore, the company’s earnings per share (EPS) surged 37% to $6.43, easily outpacing the analysts’ consensus estimate of $5.25. 

There’s no doubt that Zuckerberg is all-in on the AI revolution now. He envisions a future in which AI will be used for “a lot” of “social tasks.” And he believes it’s “really compelling” that AI will “get to know you better and better.” Some reporters have expressed skepticism of an AI-infused future, but if Meta Platforms can parlay machine learning into profits, investors shouldn’t dismiss the growth potential of Meta stock.

A related key driver for Meta Platforms will be its Threads short-form message posting platform. Granted, Threads is still playing catch-up to the popular X platform, which is owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Still, Threads is making inroads as its monthly active user count grew from 320 million in 2024’s fourth quarter to 350 million in Q1 of 2025. That’s not at the level of X, which reportedly has more than 580 million monthly active users. Yet, perhaps AI feature integration can make Threads even more competitive with X in the coming quarters. 

The company expects Q2 2025 revenue to range from $42.5 billion to $45.5 billion. The Ray-Ban-Meta-AI glasses demonstrate some eye-catching growth for the company, with the products’ sales tripling over the past year. 

Meta Platforms as a Stock

There’s no way to know how the economy will take shape for the remainder of 2025. Similarly, it remains unclear if Meta Platforms will achieve ample returns on its AI investments. These unknowns won’t stop analysts from publishing their Meta stock price predictions, though.

The aforementioned uncertainties are reflected in the wide range of Wall Street analysts’ price targets for Meta Platforms. The stock receives a consensus Strong Buy rating. Of the 68 analysts covering the shares, 60 assign them a Buy rating. However, price targets are less concentrated. The Zuckerberg-led firm has a high price target of $935, a median price target of $705.12, and a low-end price target of $466. 

Meta Platforms 2025 Outlook

Meta Platforms did not include a full-year revenue or income estimate in its quarterly press release. However, the company raised its 2025 capex estimate from a range of $60 billion to $65 billion to a range of $64 billion to $72 billion. By now, you can probably guess what Meta Platforms will spend those extra billions of dollars on. If you guessed AI, you’re right. More specifically, Meta Platforms’ management anticipates “additional data center investments to support our artificial intelligence efforts as well as an increase in the expected cost of infrastructure hardware.”

Hence, the multi-billion-dollar question revolves around whether Meta Platforms can effectively leverage its costly AI enhancements. That’s difficult to predict. So is the state of the economy, which might not support an increase in ad revenue spending if macroeconomic conditions deteriorate later this year.

24/7 Wall St.’s forecast is more bullish, with calls for Meta stock to fall to $603. This implies a decrease of 7.2%. That is largely based on some of the risks involved with Meta Platforms, from legal challenges currently ongoing in the courts to the company’s hyper-focus on AI capex. 

In the final analysis, your price target for Meta Platforms stock should depend on whether you expect the company to take full advantage of ramped-up AI features. If so, then get ready for Meta Platforms stock to eventually head toward $700 even though it may be a bumpy ride along the way.

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