Company data sheet · Meta
Meta: growth far beyond its economy.
- Industry
- Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc.
- Headquarters
- United States
- Ticker
- META (Nasdaq)
- Sources
- SEC filings (2005–2026), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- It outgrew its own economy many times over. Revenue rose from $27.6 billion in 2016 to $201 billion in 2025: 7.3 times as much. The US economy, counted the same way in money terms, grew about 60%. Whatever drove it, the economy around it does not account for growth of that size.
- Ahead of almost everyone like it. From 2016 to 2025, its revenue grew 627% in US dollars; the median among 58 large service companies grew 90%. It outgrew 84% of them.
- Leaders came and went. Meta filed 30 leadership changes since 2016, more than 77% of large service companies (the median is 22). The day after each, its shares moved a median 0.1 points against its sector. The news was rarely news.
- Ten decisions on record. Stratrix has verified ten of Meta's big decisions, each with what happened next. The hardest year after: "Meta Chose to Bleed Its Best Surfaces to Stop TikTok. It Worked - and It Still Lost", with its shares 16 points behind the S&P 500 over the next three years. The best: "Meta's 'Year of Efficiency' Lasted Exactly One Year. Then It Started Hiring Again", 280 points ahead of the S&P 500 over the next three years.
- Profitable every year. Meta made money in each of its last ten fiscal years, from $10.2 billion (2016) to $62.4 billion (2024).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $27.6 billion | $10.2 billion | |
| 2017 | $40.7 billion | $15.9 billion | |
| 2018 | $55.8 billion | $22.1 billion | |
| 2019 | $70.7 billion | $18.5 billion | |
| 2020 | $86 billion | $29.1 billion | |
| 2021 | $118 billion | $39.4 billion | |
| 2022 | $117 billion | $23.2 billion | |
| 2023 | $135 billion | $39.1 billion | |
| 2024 | $165 billion | $62.4 billion | |
| 2025 | $201 billion | $60.5 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
Stratrix Decision Cases
- 2023Meta's 'Year of Efficiency' Lasted Exactly One Year. Then It Started Hiring Again.
- 2022The $10 Billion Meta Blamed on Apple Was a Number Nobody Could Verify
- 2021Meta Burned $83 Billion on Reality Labs While the Ad Machine Printed $100 Billion a Year
- 2021Meta's $80 Billion Metaverse Burn Was Two Corporate Panics Wearing One Headset
- 2020Meta Chose to Bleed Its Best Surfaces to Stop TikTok. It Worked - and It Still Lost.
- 2018Facebook's Cambridge Analytica Failure: An Open Door, a Two-Year Lie, a $5.1 Billion Bill
- 2016WhatsApp Already Runs a B2B Toll Booth: Paid Messaging Past $3 Billion, Growing 59% a Year
- 2014Zuckerberg Retired 'Move Fast and Break Things' in 2014, Years Before Cambridge Analytica
- 2012Zuckerberg Warned of 'Network Collapse' While Letting Instagram Eat Facebook
- 2012Facebook Bought Instagram and WhatsApp as Insurance Against a Future It Could See Coming
The full data sheet · Data Plan
Everything behind these findings, ready for your board deck.
- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 31 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the S&P 500 the next day and the next year (30 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 74 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
- Methods and sources, so each number can be checked and cited.
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