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Stocks like Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta are all aggressively issuing debt. A lot of them are even going free cash flow negative, such as Meta.

Now, coming in at number two, we do have Meta who fundamentally, again, looks very attractive. This is another stock that's trading below its historic average valuation multiple, and this is actually one of the worst performing stocks, at least Mag 7 stocks year-to-date, down by about 15%.

But, the three-year total return is still very strong. Now, they just recently started paying a dividend and the yield is small, but obviously there's a lot of dividend growth potential, and the margins on the stock are just incredible. It's the highest out of all the top 10 stocks.

This one is Meta. It's a newer position to the portfolio. Like many newer positions, ones that haven't had years to earn returns, Meta is in the red. It went down quite a bit after my initial buyin price, it's just gone down because of the bad news, the lawsuits, all the people concerned about how Meta's product may change.

In my mind, it has a lot of resemblance to what we faced with Google and the whole chat GPT scare. And I have a belief that Meta will turn out similar. And I believe Meta is actually a lot stronger than most investors are pricing in.

But regardless, my position is a 10% position in the portfolio. I have $150,000 in this stock. I'm down currently $34,000 in the red. But just like all these other stocks, I need a meaningful dip in Meta for this $10,000 to be added to it. So for this one, I set a buy target of $450.

Meta Stock has been crashing over the past week because its trials have officially started and people are calling these bellweather trials where the outcome is uncertain and a lot of people are saying that this could seriously impact Meta's business.

And headlines have even been saying that Meta could be liable for over $1.4 trillion worth of damages. To put it plain and simply, that would bankrupt Meta's business.

This week a trial against Meta seeking 1.4 trillion dollars in damages began in the great city of Oakland, California.

Meta Platforms started the week at $580 per share. It's a Friday. Hopefully you guys are doing well. Uh, Meta not doing better, down over 5% finished the week at 550.

Meta got hit hard today.

Second thing we're going to talk about in this video is Meta. Meta is a stock that is very divisive and there's not a lot of people that can really give it to you both sides. I'm here to do that here today.

As somebody that's been a meta shareholder on and off for the longest time, like pretty much since the company went IPO, I want to give you a perspective on the stock here today that I think is going to be very important and talk about the bearish points with the stock, the bullish points with the stock, and really get you to understand this company on a little deeper level.

So, if you're looking at it and you see the stock at a 500 something, you're trying to figure out is this a good deal? Is this a bad deal? What's going on here? Why is the stock not rallying?

People thought the stock was going to be good this year and it's not, right?

Meta up $16,000 here today.

Meta. Meta is an honorable mention here. Honorable mention, I am not bullish on the short term on Meta. You know, I've been consistent on that since the beginning of this year.

Once I got those CapEx numbers, I was like, uh-oh. No bueno. They took those CapEx numbers so insane, Zuckerberg took them up so high, I was like, I am not bullish on this stock in the short term, right?

So, what we'll do today, um, we have a tier list prepared. We actually have two tier lists. So, for one, we will talk about um the max 7 companies as you can see here. Plus, we have some extras.

So, we will talk about the Max 7s like you know, Meta, Google, Microsoft, those those sorts of companies.

Um, we discussed Microsoft. Meta's beat. Meta had $60 billion of revenue in the quarter, up 28% year-over-year. That is a huge beat. Um, $6.18 earnings, missed earnings, down pre-market. I said that sounded like a shame to me.

Uh, let's see. Revenue for Meta E. So revenue was beat. We discussed EPS missed by 14 and a.5% and net income fell 14% year-over-year. Um the cash flow free cash flow this is saying this this recap cash flow collapsed to 784 million against $ 31 billion of quarterly capex.

Okay, I don't like how Colott is phrasing that free cash flow collapsed to 784 billion against 31 billion. It means they spent a lot of money in capex is what that means. That's near zero cash generation for the company.

Fullyear guidance for capex is 160 to $145 billion.

Now, we come to Meta who has seen some incredible volatility so far in 2026, but in the last year down by 22.3% and year-to-date down by 10%

and it's really not any secret what's been going on with Meta stock. There's a lot of concerns with the increased CapEx spending. For example, look at the dividend breakdown sheet.

Yes, Meta doesn't pay much in dividends, but what you really need to pay attention to is the fact that in 2025, we saw free cash flow actually decline.

We also have rumored news that Met is weighing a big equity raise to finance AI infrastructure.

When I look at my portfolio, I'm heavily invested in artificial intelligence through four hyperscalers. We have Meta, Google, and Microsoft, all spending hundreds of billions of dollars in capex.