Meta Platforms has used the stock-market ticker META since changing from Facebook’s former FB ticker in 2022.
The ticker change followed Facebook’s corporate rebrand to Meta Platforms, announced in October 2021. The company kept its Nasdaq listing but changed its symbol from FB to META on June 9, 2022.
The change reflects Meta’s broader focus on building social platforms, virtual-reality products, artificial-intelligence systems, and other technologies beyond the original Facebook service. The legal company name is Meta Platforms, Inc., while Facebook remains one of its major products.
A common mix-up is confusing the company’s ticker with the names of its apps. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are products or services associated with Meta, but META is the public-company symbol. Meta’s Class A common stock trades on the Nasdaq exchange.