Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) on the public record today: 26 items across Law firms, AI, Bonds, Markets, Options, Briefing, Companies, How fast revenue grew…
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Law firms
- AWK Survivor Advocate Attorneys, PLC on 4 new cases involving Meta Platforms — Jacobs v. Meta Platforms, Inc., f/k/a Facebook, Inc. (Federal courts, 27 Oct 2026) META
- Law Office of Paul Mankin APC on 3 new cases involving Meta Platforms — Gibson v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (Federal courts, 27 Oct 2026) META
- David Grossman & Associates, PLLC on 2 new cases involving Meta Platforms — Ward v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (Federal courts, 27 Oct 2026) META
- Levin Papantonio Proctor Buchanan O'Brien Barr Mougey on 2 new cases involving Meta Platforms — Trotter v. Meta Platforms, Inc (Federal courts, 27 Oct 2026) META
- Brockstedt Mandalas Federico LLC on 3 new cases involving Meta Platforms — Beloit Turner School District Board of Education v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (Federal courts, 26 Oct 2026) META
- Frantz Law Group, APLC on 7 new cases involving Meta Platforms — Riverview School District v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (Federal courts, 25 Oct 2026) META
- Motley Rice, LLC on 3 new cases involving Meta Platforms — School District of Haverford Township v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (Federal courts, 25 Oct 2026) META
- Bullock Legal Group, One Seagate on 2 new cases involving Meta Platforms — Anaheim Union High School District v. META PLATFORMS, INC., formerly known as Facebook, Inc. (Federal courts, 25 Oct 2026) META
- Morris Bart, LLC on 2 new cases involving Meta Platforms — Franklin v. Instagram, LLC (Federal courts, 25 Oct 2026) META
AI
- Meta Platforms: 3 officer or director departures filed with the SEC in 12 months — 8-K item 5.02, every role, in the 12 months to 7 Nov 2026 · one of the AI Trajectory page's inputs (SEC filings, 7 Nov 2026) META
- Meta Platforms is the latest institution on record for 72 of the 8,494 AI researchers the terminal tracks — latest employer on Wikidata, else the latest institution on their papers · people chosen by stated rules: field of work, awards, citations (OpenAlex and Wikidata, 8 Nov 2026) META
- Meta ranks #4 on the capabilities index, 7.0 points behind the leader: Muse Wonder at 162.0 — United States · +29.9 points in 12 months · 6 models in 12 months (Epoch AI Capabilities Index, 11 Oct 2026) META
- Meta: 161,738 H100-equivalents of AI supercomputers on record, 100,000 added in the year to Jul 2025 — 9 clusters it owns or trains on (a shared one counts for each company) · Epoch's record runs to Jul 2025 (Epoch AI Supercomputers, 21 Jul 2025) META
Bonds
- META sold $9B of bonds — 6 tranches · coupons 4.30%-6.40% · due 2031-2065 · spread up to 276 bp over Treasuries (SEC filings, 3 Nov 2026) META
- META sold $15B of bonds — 5 tranches · coupons 5.85%-7.50% · due 2031-2056 · spread up to 220 bp over Treasuries (SEC filings, 2 Nov 2026) META
Markets
- META: 76 trading patterns flagged in 20 sessions — Newest 6 Nov: Repeated breaks of a price level, then recovery, down. Flagged for review, not a finding about anyone. (Market behavior measured by the terminal, 5 Nov 2026) META
- META: $57M of shares not delivered on time on 13 Oct — 76,235 shares at $742.96 · SEC file for 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-15 · most fails clear within days (SEC (fails-to-deliver data), 12 Oct 2026) META
Options
- META gamma conditions +2 of ±5: the kind that came with smaller moves in this record — positive gamma · size-adjusted GEX at percentile 35 of its year · price 1.2% above zero gamma · implied volatility +1.1 pts against 20-day realised · after this reading the next session's median move, up or down, was… (U.S. options exchanges, 6 Nov 2026) META
- META's median move the session after a monthly expiry was 2.11%, against 1.18% on other sessions — N=25 monthly expiries in its record · the gap in points, five widest among SPY and the ten largest companies · moves are in size, up or down (U.S. options exchanges, 6 Nov 2026) META
Briefing
- Big Tech money promised off the books: $3.82T — Stressed · 3.3× the $1.16T of debt they report · operating cash flow a year: $1.37T (2.8 years of it) · contracted backlog: $2.98T at the 33 that report it · largest: GOOGL $1.06T, META $817B, NVDA $442B · 53 companies… (SEC filings, 8 Nov 2026) GOOGL META NVDA
Companies
- Meta Platforms, Inc. is named as a competitor in 13 companies' annual reports — Named by APP, EVC, GDDY, LVO, PINS, RBLX, RDDT, SIRI, SNAP, U and 3 more (SEC filings, 30 Mar 2026) META
How fast revenue grew
- Meta (Facebook): 4 years from its first fiscal year above $1 billion to its first above $10 billion — +48% a year in the 3 years after its first $10 billion year · Fiscal years, read from the company's 10-Ks; growth after $10 billion separates a ramp that goes on from one that fades (SEC EDGAR (annual reports on Form 10-K; Anthropic's S-1/A), 30 Dec 2025) META
Immigration
- Meta Platforms Inc: 888 new H-1B approvals in FY2026, -43% on FY2025 — #8 employer by initial approvals · 3,109 continuing approvals (USCIS, 29 Sep 2026) META
Insiders
- META: Andreessen Marc L (Director) sold $12.8M of stock — 8 open-market trades in the last 7 days (SEC Form 4, 1 Nov 2026) META
Lobbying
- Meta Platforms, Inc. spent $5.88M lobbying in Q3 2026, +1% on a year earlier — issues: CPI, BAN, MIA, TEC, CSP, FIN · $5.84M a year earlier (Lobbying Disclosure Act reports, 21 Oct 2026) META
What the spending is buying
- Meta Platforms: capex was 78% of operating cash flow over the last four quarters to 2026 Q3, up from 58% a year earlier — Free cash flow after capex $28.6B · Capex up 66% and operating income down 3% on the four quarters before (SEC 10-Q and 10-K filings (cash flow statements), 29 Sep 2026) META
Coming up
- 23 Oct 2026: Mark Zuckerberg on TBPN
- 15 Oct 2026: Mark Zuckerberg on TBPN
In the data tables
- The AI race: every major lab's best model, ranked by capability score (Epoch AI Capabilities Index)