By Adam Spatacco
Publication Date: 2026-04-12 16:36:00
For years, Mark Zuckerberg was one of Big Tech’s most ridiculed CEOs – touting augmented reality (AR) glasses, virtual offices, and a metaverse no one asked for. Then the billionaire entrepreneur turned to artificial intelligence (AI). Metaplatforms (META +0.22%) The stock price tripled and Wall Street crowned him a capital allocation expert.
Now that Meta has become the most attractively valued stock in the Magnificent Seven based on future earnings forecasts, investors are angry again. The irony is poetic. Let’s explore why the reflexive fears surrounding meta are almost certainly wrong.
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