Meta Platforms (WBO:META) Days Sales Outstanding : 34.57 (As of Mar. 2025)

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What is Meta Platforms Days Sales Outstanding?

Meta Platforms's average Accounts Receivable for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was €14,827 Mil. Meta Platforms's Revenue for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was €39,140 Mil. Hence, Meta Platforms's Days Sales Outstanding for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was 34.57.

The historical rank and industry rank for Meta Platforms's Days Sales Outstanding or its related term are showing as below:

WBO:META' s Days Sales Outstanding Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 31.77 Med: 43.2 Max: 44.27
Current: 31.77

During the past 13 years, Meta Platforms's highest Days Sales Outstanding was 44.27. The lowest was 31.77. And the median was 43.20.

WBO:META's Days Sales Outstanding is ranked better than
73.94% of 564 companies
in the Interactive Media industry
Industry Median: 45.495 vs WBO:META: 31.77

Meta Platforms's Days Sales Outstanding declined from Mar. 2024 (36.98) to Mar. 2025 (34.57).

Meta Platforms Days Sales Outstanding Historical Data

The historical data trend for Meta Platforms's Days Sales Outstanding can be seen below:

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Meta Platforms Days Sales Outstanding Chart

Meta Platforms Annual Data

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Days Sales Outstanding

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46.19

38.02

41.67

40.63

36.08

Meta Platforms Quarterly Data
	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23	Mar24	Jun24	Sep24	Dec24	Mar25
Days Sales Outstanding	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															36.98	32.47	33.34	29.10	34.57

Competitive Comparison of Meta Platforms's Days Sales Outstanding

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, Meta Platforms's Days Sales Outstanding, along with its competitors' market caps and Days Sales Outstanding data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Meta Platforms's Days Sales Outstanding Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Meta Platforms's Days Sales Outstanding distribution charts can be found below:

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Meta Platforms Days Sales Outstanding Calculation

Days Sales Outstanding measures the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. It is a financial ratio that illustrates how well a company's Accounts Receivable are being managed.

Accounts Receivable can be measured by Days Sales Outstanding.

Meta Platforms's Days Sales Outstanding for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

	Days Sales Outstanding (A: Dec. 2024 )
=	Average Accounts Receivable					/	Revenue	*	Days in Period
=	( (Accounts Receivable (A: Dec. 2023 )	+	Accounts Receivable (A: Dec. 2024 ))	/	count )	/	Revenue (A: Dec. 2024 )	*	Days in Period
=	( (14826.973	+	16229.27)	/	2 )	/	157098.455	*	365
=	15528.1215					/	157098.455	*	365
=	36.08

Meta Platforms's Days Sales Outstanding for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

	Days Sales Outstanding (Q: Mar. 2025 )
=	Average Accounts Receivable					/	Revenue	*	Days in Period
=	( (Accounts Receivable (A: Dec. 2024 )	+	Accounts Receivable (A: Mar. 2025 ))	/	count )	/	Revenue (A: Mar. 2025 )	*	Days in Period
=	( (16229.27	+	13425.45)	/	2 )	/	39140.45	*	365 / 4
=	14827.36					/	39140.45	*	365 / 4
=	34.57

Meta Platforms (WBO:META) Days Sales Outstanding Explanation

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Meta is the largest social media company in the world, boasting close to 4 billion monthly active users worldwide. The firm's "Family of Apps," its core business, consists of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. End users can leverage these applications for a variety of different purposes, from keeping in touch with friends to following celebrities and running digital businesses for free. Meta packages customer data, gleaned from its application ecosystem and sells ads to digital advertisers. While the firm has been investing heavily in its Reality Labs business, it remains a very small part of Meta's overall sales.