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Meta Platforms (META.O) posted record revenue in the second fiscal quarter, but updates on its AI spending plan sparked investor concerns about the costs of building its infrastructure. Meta slightly raised the lower end of its annual capital expenditure guidance from $125 billion to $130 billion, while keeping the upper end unchanged at $145 billion. Its second-quarter revenue was $60.8 billion, up 28% year-over-year, but net profit was $15.8 billion, below analyst expectations. As a result, Meta's stock fell over 6% in after-hours trading. In an effort to catch up in the AI race, Meta has already invested tens of billions of dollars in chip procurement, data center construction, and top talent recruitment. Recently, it partnered with BlackRock to raise at least $12 billion to build a data center in Texas. Meta's free cash flow in the second quarter was $784 million. (Jin Shi)
According to monitoring by the BlockFlow KOL Opinion Aggregation Platform, Meta Platforms (META) is currently priced at $669.21. Multiple KOLs are unanimously bullish, believing that given its massive user base across multiple platforms and AI infrastructure build-out, the $1.7 trillion valuation is cheap.
According to TechFlow Research, Morgan Stanley released an Internet Tracking Report, noting that Google and Meta's nominal EV/EBITDA multiples appear inexpensive (GOOGL 16.1x, META 8.9x), but after adjusting for stock-based compensation accounting treatment, the true multiple rises from 16.3x to 31.1x (+91%), still lower than the five-year average of 31.6x, implying that the true valuation of internet giants is undervalued by the market by more than 30%.