META
Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock
stock NASDAQ

It's not the buys that you should be looking at. It's what the holds are. Bear in mind that retail investors are basically paying 2% to the house (the market makers that your broker diverts your orders to) on every trade. The more you trade, the more you lose. I haven't been buying BABA last two years, but I've held it. I've been holding BABA, META, ZEPP, TCEHY, JD, AMZN for years at this point while degens have been saying "shit stock" and "uninvestable". I've been trailing the SP500 for years before finally shooting past it.
Right now I'm just buying VTSAX with any free money. The only reason I bought BABA was because it offered tremendous value, and a lot of blue chip value plays have pretty much disappeared as everyone is trying to hedge against a US equity bubble by investing in China.
I'm happy to go in on one or two high conviction equities per year. Last two years I've made zero non index purchases.

Everyone’s focused on the mega-caps (NVDA, META, MSFT), but the asymmetric opportunities are usually in the small caps. One name that keeps popping up for me is **DVLT (Datavault AI)**.
# 🌐 What DVLT Does
DVLT’s platform is built to help companies and individuals **organize, secure, and monetize their data**. Their products are designed to:
* Use **AI to unlock insights** from data that usually sits unused.
* Provide **data management + monetization tools** across enterprise and media verticals.
* Explore new ways of connecting data platforms to broader digital ecosystems.
This isn’t a “buzzword” company — their roadmap sits directly at the intersection of **AI + data monetization**, a theme Wall Street is chasing hard.
# 💸 The Numbers
* Market cap: \~$70–90M (tiny compared to peers).
* Projected revenue: $40–50M by 2026.
* Current revenue: small, but trending up as pilots and partnerships expand.
Even modest adoption could force a big re-rating in valuation.
# 🔑 Recent Catalysts
1. **New partnership initiatives** aimed at integrating their platform into broader financial/data networks.
2. **ADIO product** is tapping into the growing audio/data management market.
3. **AI tailwinds** — DVLT’s narrative is directly aligned with the hottest investing theme today.
# 📊 Market Cap Potential
* If DVLT hits $50M revenue by 2026 and gets even a 5× sales multiple → $250M valuation.
* A 10× multiple would imply $500M+.
* From today’s sub-$100M cap, that’s a potential **3–6× move** if execution lands.
# ⚠️ Risks
* Early-stage company — execution risk is huge.
* Financing/dilution could be needed to fund growth.
* Competition in AI/data is fierce — must carve a niche.
# ✅ Why I’m Positive
* **Asymmetry**: Don’t need perfection — just one or two wins.
* **Narrative strength**: AI + data monetization is an easy story for investors to grab onto.
* **Undervalued size**: Sub-$100M market cap gives plenty of room for rerating if traction builds.
# 🎯 My Call
DVLT is a classic microcap moonshot:
* Risky? Sure.
* Potential for multiple expansion? Absolutely.
* Positioned in two megatrends (AI + data management)? Yes.
If they keep building partnerships and hitting their targets, the upside from here could be significant.

META, GOOGL, AAPL, MSFT. To name 4 straight off the top of my head. Lol. Research!

Options on Robinhood is mistake 1. Use IBKR or Fidelity or something that has a trailing loss setup. I tried Robinhood and I like their simulated returns , living in Hawaii, it allows me to do some sports betting with their prediction markets at a few bucks at a time, but unless you are doing LEAP options, you can pretty much just set up a stop loss to sell at a minimum loss, sell at a specific profit, or watch it non stop pray its going to go back up.
I wouldn't give up investing, but maybe back off the options. Probably like many, if you started this over the last 5 months you hit a couple of really big wins with how much everything was rebounding at once. It was truly hard to lose there for about 4 months. The market has changed, change your strategy. Change to a cash account, buy some small marker cap things like RGTI or energy stocks. Even look at some SPACS, but do your research. There are a ton with mergers in Q4. don't hold the SPACs past merger day. Maybe even sell them the day before or set up your drop losses to be safe. Transfer that money to IBKR and do some warrants on things like HOND or when Eric T. Comes out with New America, but into it those warrants and buy and sell with the news.
If you are going to stick with options (I would advise against) Try long term ones, or pick a few companies like TSLA, MSFT, META and gamble with them. TSLA is pretty easy. On days like today, when they are up, they go up and stable off. But don't try until after 9:44 bc most companies shift pretty hard in those first 15 minutes.
I think the lesson here is while a few people guess right with options, more people end up like you. EFTs won't make you rich over night, or turn 1K into 10K in a week, but they also won't make 50K into 1K.
If you want to try risk, follow the President's family, look when their IPO or slac mergers are, ride the wave up, sell on day 1 while up, and repeat. People lost a lot on PEW, but if you sold right when it was coming down I. Day 1, you should have tripled your investment. Rinse and repeat.

What’s the point of carefully averaging large amounts of UNH/META/TSLA leaps if one can full port their entire portfolio into OPEN shares for 1 day and gain 10-30%? I lost my motivation with options

I've made $12k+ the last few months selling puts credit spreads on LLY, TSLA, META, and NFLX. Small cap stocks for the win. 

My two cents:
\* It'll be most impacted by the H1B fee if the EO sticks. Jassy and Bezos are not feting Trump to his satisfaction, meaning they get no special treatment.
\* It's also the most impacted by tariffs (25-30% of the company market cap is the non-AWS retail side which is selling a lot of imported goods). Again, no special treatment from Trump.
\* The FTC lawsuit over Prime fees began today, and yet again there will be no special treatment from Trump. See the pattern? Welcome to capitalism in 2025.
\* It's very exposed to the "real" economy of retail sales and inflation. The real economy may be slowing and inflation is persistently elevated.
\* It's also exposed to the "AI Bubble" narrative. Google will use it's AI for search, MSFT uses it's AI for enterprise apps, but most of Amazon's AI is third-party spend via AWS - it has no internal use for it. If the 'bubble' bursts and customers quit spending on AI, it will be most impacted.
\* Everyone has announced some big datacenter deal with an AI hyperscaler, but Amazon's Claude deal remains unchanged. Amazon's RPO is at $180b vs almost 400 for MSFT and 90 for GOOGL which is a far smaller cloud provider. RPO is critical in justifying high PEs since it locks in revenue for the next 3-5 years, justifying the whole datacenter capex story.
\* It hasn't executed that well in the whole AI scene in terms of new customers, new products, growth, etc.
\* The stock had an expensive PE to start the year with, while others like GOOGL, META, etc did not. MSFT also has a similar PE but has delivered 40% growth vs 20% for AMZN.
\* There's no clear strategic path from the C-suite that will trigger a re-rating like Google and MSFT have enjoyed this year. The run-of-the-mill 15-20% AWS growth is priced in. The analyst narratives aren't great, with Morgan Stanley being the most optimistic but their argument about grocery growth driving the stock seems far fetched.
\* It continues to have "loser" products like Alexa, Amazon Music, Amazon Studios that hemorrhage cash while failing to become a category leader or growth engine.
\* Jeff & Mackenzie keep selling shares to fund other ventures and philanthropy, putting a massive technical ceiling on the stock for the medium term.
\* In general, it just seems to not be executing that well when all it's competitors are delivering miracle quarters four times a year. It's possible that it will re-rate down, not up, if this continues.

VZ, AAPL, HD, AMZN, HOOD, COST, META, GOOGL, MSFT, RDDT, PYPL

Google could have taken over the entire taxi rideshare world overnight if they're willing to spend their war chest into it. But Google can't afford to spend like a teenager when they're in a all out AI war race against MSFT, AMZN, META, etc as the winner will take over the AI landscape for the next decade.

Na. META is next to kiss trumps ring.
Makes perfect sense to techs pledge to invest domestically (to avoid getting the cone of shame), while not actually investing shit and receiving assets in return.
Trump looks like an investment genius, and whoever gets in before others gets better valuation and it becomes more expensive for any other to follow.
The game is rigged ma boi

Just asked the teacher, he doesn't want my portfolio to be too focused on one industry, and he wants me to focus more on the leadership vs actual gain. I have AAPL, NVDA, RHM, CCO, UBER, META, TSLA, JPM.

> Unless you say that you don't care about stock price, and you only care about the company value.
Ofcourse I care about the stock price but my investment horizon is also into 5-10yrs. Amazon is my long term hold so I will continue to add it. I have other positions that have out performed Amazon ofcourse but I was also investing in Google when it was lagging the market.
> Retail business is not the reason that Amazon can grow fast in stock price, regardless how amazon is doing good in retail or in robotics in warehouse, Amazon still only has ~5% profit margin, higher than Walmart, but much lower than software and Internet business, and also has much lower YoY growth in retail business EPS.
I disagree. The reason why their retail margins appear lower is because of their aggressive expansion related costs which has always been part of their playbook - reinvest into businesses' as opposed to buybacks.
Also their revenue compared to AWS from eCommerce is nearly 3x. Robotics will give them a boost to their bottom line allowing their flywheel to continue and even a marginal boost to their margins will result in large profits due to the sheer revenue they bring in.
> Valuation is based on your EPS, your EPS growth, and your profit margin. Retail business is not the reason that AMZN stock price would grow fast like other tech companies. It's the AWS business.
If you look at it from just surface level but if you look to understand their business playbook their idea is to invest heavily in infrastructure, expansion and bottom line. They are using their AWS profits to create a massive network effect in eCommerce which is unrivaled right now.
eCommerce will also significantly boost their advertisement (third right now behind META and Google) as they have first hand data on what consumers are spending.
AWS is their business but don't discount their retail.

All my cash secured puts are dangerously close to ITM, going to need to decide which ones to roll out and down. Already had to roll out META and AMZN since I can't take on the assignment and tie up that much capital.
Got in on some good strangles on SPY and QQQ on these past two days of vol spikes though
Couple long straddle opportunities im looking at for some gamma scalping on the side

GOOG, MSFT, META, QSR, BMO, RY, IBKR, DUOL, TD, IFC

Reuters just reported on this META feature. So, it is news-worthy.
Meta rolls out real-time translation feature on WhatsApp - https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-rolls-out-real-time-translation-feature-whatsapp-2025-09-23/

thoughts on META by end of the month?

Come on META cover me completely with your shrek dildo!!!
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For the past 2 years most of my portfolio has been TSLA, META, NVDA, and a few other unicorns who've seen a bump in share price with the introduction of AI.
I recently sold off most of my shares in these companies and am looking to put my money somewhere relatively more stable; so, does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations for dividend stocks to watch right now?

Any insight is welcome, I'm a very casual investor.

I'd suggest IGM rather than QQQM or VGT. It's broad tech like VGT but includes META, GOOGL and NFLX.
Take your time. There are a zillion choices. Get familiar with them and then choose whatever you are happy to own. Overlap doesn't matter as long as you know what you are getting. SMH, IGM and SPMO aare very common choices. So is VXUS, but check out IDMO instead. IDMO is the international version of SPMO.
Again, being swamped is fine. Just wade through everything and don't feel like you have to commit immediately. Also, you can always change your mind.

APPL, GOOGL, RDDT, META, SPOT, LON: SBRY (Supermarket), SONY, all these companies I've used for over 10 years and probably will go on to use for another 10-20 years