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Meta Platforms (CHIX:FB2AD) Dividend Yield % : 0.31% (As of Mar. 16, 2025)


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What is Meta Platforms Dividend Yield %?

As of today (2025-03-16), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of Meta Platforms is 0.31%.

Good Sign:

Meta Platforms Inc stock dividend yield is close to 1-year high.

The historical rank and industry rank for Meta Platforms's Dividend Yield % or its related term are showing as below:

CHIX:FB2Ad' s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.09   Med: 0.21   Max: 0.33
Current: 0.31

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Meta Platforms was 0.33%. The lowest was 0.09%. And the median was 0.21%.

CHIX:FB2Ad's Dividend Yield % is ranked worse than
93.94% of 165 companies
in the Interactive Media industry
Industry Median: 1.88 vs CHIX:FB2Ad: 0.31

Meta Platforms's Dividend Payout Ratio for the three months ended in Dec. 2024 was 0.06.

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Meta Platforms was 0.08. The lowest was 0.08. And the median was 0.08.

As of today (2025-03-16), the Forward Dividend Yield % of Meta Platforms is 0.32%.

Meta Platforms's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2024 was €0.48.

The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.

* Please note that "special dividend" is not included in the calculation of dividend per share and related fields.


Meta Platforms Dividend Yield % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Meta Platforms's Dividend Yield % can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Meta Platforms Dividend Yield % Chart

Meta Platforms Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Dividend Yield %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - - - 0.33

Meta Platforms Quarterly Data
Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24
Dividend Yield % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 0.10 0.19 0.27 0.33

Competitive Comparison of Meta Platforms's Dividend Yield %

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, Meta Platforms's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % 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 Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Meta Platforms's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Meta Platforms's Dividend Yield % falls into.



Meta Platforms Dividend Yield % Calculation

Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Meta Platforms Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
USD 0.5250002025-03-142025-03-142025-03-26Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:EUR 0.960000
USD 0.5000002024-12-162024-12-162024-12-27Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:EUR 0.955000
USD 0.5000002024-09-162024-09-162024-09-26Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:EUR 0.901000
USD 0.5000002024-06-142024-06-142024-06-26Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:EUR 0.929000

* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.

Meta Platforms's Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Trailing Annual Dividend Yield=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=1.8965/603.50
=0.31 %

Current Share Price is €603.50.
Meta Platforms's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is €1.8965.

Meta Platforms's Forward Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Forward Annual Dividend Yield=Forward Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=2.016/603.50
=0.33 %

Current Share Price is €603.50.
Meta Platforms's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as €0.504 * 4 = €2.016.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Meta Platforms  (CHIX:FB2Ad) Dividend Yield % Explanation

Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.

Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.

In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.

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Meta Platforms Business Description

Address
1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA, 94025
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.

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