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Analyst Unveils New Facebook Stock Price Target After Earnings

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stock, the analyst tells investors in a research note.The results reflect accelerating growth in the ads business in the fourth quarter with sustained momentum in the first quarter, as well as higher user engagement, success with Reels and Messaging ads, and growing AI integrations that bode well for FY24 growth, he said.“We are encouraged by impressive results and guidance as the company continues to see healthy engagement trends and improving monetization,” Wedbush analyst Scott Devitt wrote in a research noteDevitt was so encouraged by Meta's results that he reiterated his outperform rating and boosted the company's stock price target $100 to $520 per share. “We also highlight a $50 billion increase in the company's share repurchase authorization (bringing the total to about $81 billion) and the announcement of a 50 cent dividend,\" he said. \"Meta remains our top digital advertising pick and we are raising estimates following results.\"'Good sign for digital advertising ecosystem'The analyst noted that Meta has a number of sustainable drivers in place to support growth, including improving monetization of new ad formats and surfaces, with Reels, Facebook’s short-form video-sharing platform, becoming accretive to net revenue and strong growth in click-to-message ad revenues.Devitt also saw wider implications for Meta's earnings results.\"Meta's notably strong 1Q guidance is a positive read through for the broader digital advertising industry,\" he said, \"and while we acknowledge that Meta is benefiting from company-specific tailwinds, we think the implication for the health of the digital advertising ecosystem in 2024 is incrementally positive for the entire group, including Pinterest and Alphabet.\"Morgan Stanley raised its price target on Meta Platforms to $550 from $375 and kept an overweight rating on the shares after results and guidance were \"significantly stronger than expectations.\"While Meta's \"robust\" generative AI pipeline begins to 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