Meta Platforms Ranks Eighth in Trading Volume with 86.61 Billion Shares Exchanged

On June 5, 2025, Meta Platforms Inc. (META) experienced a trading volume of 86.61 billion, ranking it eighth in the day's stock market activity. The stock closed with a 0.48% decrease.

Meta Platforms Inc. has been one of the better performers among the Magnificent 7 this year, with its shares outperforming the broader market and currently up 17.5% year to date. This performance is bolstered by a strong first-quarter earnings report, which has led to a 37.2% rally since hitting its year-to-date low on April 21.

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shifted the company's focus towards artificial intelligence (AI), which is expected to be the 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 helped the company succeed in the first quarter of the year despite losses in its metaverse business. The company 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.

Another key driver for Meta Platforms will be its Threads short-form message posting platform. Although Threads is still playing catch-up to the popular X platform, it has shown growth with its monthly active user count increasing from 320 million in 2024’s fourth quarter to 350 million in Q1 of 2025. The company expects second-quarter 2025 revenue to range from $42.5 billion to $45.5 billion, with the Ray-Ban-Meta-AI glasses demonstrating some eye-catching growth for the company, with the products’ sales tripling over the past year.