Meta Platforms (META), Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google and Snap (SNAP) face one fewer teen social media ad

Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley highlights the risks that Meta Platforms (META) could still face even if it wins its current social media addiction trial brought on by four attorneys general.

Snap stock has delivered a steep decline of about 93.0% over the past five years, yet current valuation checks on the shares now point to a potentially more constructive picture than that past performance suggests. The roughly 93.0% share price decline over five years highlights how much long term value the market has already removed from Snap. On the supportive side, any improvement in user engagement or ad monetisation can help sentiment. However, mounting legal and regulatory pressure...

The social media company reported a notable insider sale as its stock has declined 28% over the past year.

The owner of Facebook and Instagram deliberately made its social media apps addictive for children and “hid the truth” about their harms, a US court has been told.

A 29-state youth-harm trial opened in Oakland Tuesday with damages that could dwarf Meta Platforms' entire market cap, and that legal cloud is landing just as the company's cost structure shows a troubling divergence from its revenue growth.

Wall Street analysts are piling into Reddit with some of the highest price targets in social media, yet the stock keeps sliding even as the company posts explosive revenue growth. Something has to give, and the direction it breaks could be dramatic.

Meta Platforms Inc. is headed to court Tuesday for a high-stakes showdown with a coalition of state attorneys general over claims that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users.

A child safety trial opening Tuesday in federal court is hammering Meta Platforms stock and pulling Pinterest and Snap down with it, even though neither faces the bench, as potential damages the company itself has flagged approach its entire market cap.

Higgsfield, founded by former Snap exec Alex Mashrabov, lets users create AI images and videos.

A federal appeals court just stripped away the legal shield that social media platforms have relied on for decades, and Snap is absorbing the first blow with thousands of lawsuits now cleared to proceed against it.

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Shares of Alibaba (BABA) rise after disclosing a deal to sell its gaming arm and touting claims of more than 3 billion downloads for its open AI model. - Shares of DR Horton (DHI) and Macy's (M) are moved higher after Berkshire Hathaway disclosed stakes in the companies in a filing. - Shares of Snap (SNAP) are down in trading Monday. The stock is set to end its win streak over past two sessions.

Investing.com - U.S. stock futures were mixed on Monday, with technology stocks pointing to a firmer open, as investors scaled back bets on an impending Federal Reserve rate hike and looked ahead to a fresh batch of retail-sector earnings this week.

Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) delivered the strongest year-on-year growth in average revenue per user among major social media platforms during the second quarter of 2026, according to analysis published by Bank of America on Monday. In the U.

Snap (NYSE:SNAP) shares dropped 12. 4% in pre-market trading as investors reacted to a significant court ruling involving social media liability, a large insider share sale and continued caution among Wall Street analysts despite the company’s better-than-expected second-quarter results.

Higgsfield raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation, with Goldman Sachs and Intel joining as new investors.

Recent legal and regulatory headlines around youth safety are putting Snap (SNAP) under fresh scrutiny. A federal appeals court has allowed thousands of user harm lawsuits to proceed, and school smartphone ban proposals raise new questions about future engagement. See our latest analysis for Snap. Against this backdrop, Snap's share price recently closed at US$5.41, with a 1-day share price return of 2.08% and a 30-day share price return of 13.66%. However, the year-to-date share price return...

The social media company's business is booming, but a nagging concern about its audience has investors on edge after the recent drop.

Reddit just scored S&P 500 membership, but the pop is already fading and the stock sits down 24% for the year. The path back to $200 depends on forces that index inclusion alone cannot deliver.

A federal appeals court removed another procedural obstacle facing more than 3,000 lawsuits accusing Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META), Snap Inc. (NYSE:SNAP), Alphabet, and TikTok of harming young users through allegedly addictive product features. The Ninth Circuit did not decide whether the companies are liable. It ruled that Section 230 provides a defense against liability, not […]

CFO Charles Chang purchased two Class A shares for $1.5 million. Michael O’Sullivan, the general counsel bought 488 Class B shares for a $250,000.

Reddit has posted eight consecutive quarters of sales growth above 60%

Reddit will join the benchmark index on Aug. 18, replacing AvalonBay Communities, becoming only the second pureplay social media company in the S&P 500

Shares in Reddit Inc (NYSE:RDDT), the social media platform, surged 12.45% in extended trading on Thursday after S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the business will join the S&P 500. The company will enter the prominent equity index before the US market opens on August 18. The stock...

While a national ban is currently hypothetical, eMarketer’s research on its potential impact reflects the rapidly changing regulatory landscape for mobile.

RDDT's ad growth, AI-powered Reddit Max, and expanding advertiser base strengthen its push against Meta and Snap.

Meta shed more than 10% in a month while Wall Street analysts refused to blink, and one firm is now sitting on a price target that implies nearly double the current stock price. What they see in the wreckage is worth understanding.

The stocks in this article have caught Wall Street’s attention in a big way, with price targets implying returns above 20%. But investors should take these forecasts with a grain of salt because analysts typically say nice things about companies so their firms can win business in other product lines like M&A advisory.

An appeals court ruled more than 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snapchat over addictive design claims targeting youth can proceed.

Snapchat’s second quarter saw a stronger-than-expected performance, which management attributed to momentum in both its advertising and subscription businesses. CEO Evan Spiegel emphasized that recent investments in ad platform automation and AI-powered tools have started to pay off, citing a 56% year-over-year increase in conversion events and growing adoption of new ad formats like sponsored Snaps. The company also benefited from major sporting events and robust growth among its small and medi

The options market prices a very wide band for the year ahead, while charging only the ordinary premium for it.

Revenue grew 19% as AI-powered ad tools drove conversions and subscriptions surged 85%.

STORY: From Nvidia drumming up cash to four legged robots keeping homes safe. This is Tech Weekly. :: Tech Weekly Nvidia said it's partnered with six major financial institutions to launch compute financing platforms... aimed at raising over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on X that the company has the option to backstop up to $125 billion, or 25% of the potential deals. The move highlights how surging demand for AI computing capacity is drawing institutional investors. A U.S. appeals court allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet's Google, ByteDance's TikTok and Snap Inc's Snapchat. It's over claims they designed their products to be addictive to young users. A San Francisco-based court rejected an appeal by Meta and TikTok seeking to overturn a lower court ruling requiring them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits filed in federal court. Eyewitness video captured the moment China’s Long March 7A rocket exploded after take-off in Hainan. State news agency Xinhua said the cause was under investigation. The failure could trigger checks of other Chinese launches if investigators identify a problem involving shared components, manufacturing or Wenchang launch operations. And would you trust a robot dog to keep you safe at home? "Hey this is Landon from Undaunted products. How can I help you today?" Robotic dogs are replacing overnight security guards at several Atlanta apartment complexes, where property managers say the machines are helping deter crime and improve safety. At 445 Cleveland Apartments, two four-legged robots patrol the property's roughly 200 units. The robots, operated by Atlanta-based startup Undaunted, are remotely controlled by human operators. They monitor live camera feeds and communicate directly with residents through onboard speakers.

Snap (NYSE: SNAP) is among several social media platforms now facing thousands of consolidated lawsuits alleging addictive product design targeted at minors. A US federal appeals court rejected the companies' attempt to use Section 230 immunity, allowing the litigation to proceed. The cases raise regulatory and reputational questions for Snap that extend beyond earnings updates or valuation debates. The outcome is expected to shape legal risk for the wider social media sector as similar...

Galloway said he would buy Snap shares, betting the stock could rise manifold if Spiegel exits the hardware business.

Meta has flipped from closed to open to closed to open models for years, but finally, they may have found their sweet spot for taking on frontier AI.

Platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation.

DJT shares are taking another hit while the broader market climbs, and the pile of political and regulatory pressure building against Trump Media suggests today's drop may be the least of shareholders' worries.

The appeals court ruled Section 230 provides a liability defense, not immunity, making Meta's appeal premature

A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet's Google, ByteDance's TikTok and Snap Inc's Snapchat over claims they designed their products to ‌be addictive to young users. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by Meta and TikTok seeking to overturn a lower court ‌ruling requiring them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits filed in federal court, saying the companies had appealed too early. The companies contended that they should not have to wait until the litigation ends to challenge the lower court's rejection of their immunity defense.

Examine Snap's (SNAP) international revenue patterns and their implications on Wall Street's forecasts and the prospective trajectory of the stock.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky reveals to Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi how AI is driving the company's fastest growth in years, shares his bold predictions for the future of consumer tech, and confirms the existence of a secret internal AI lab.

The disposition reduced the insider's total equity holdings by 10%.

After a sharp pullback, Meta Platforms is testing a price floor that has held strong on seven prior occasions. The business arriving this time is different, setting up a classic standoff between history and today's reality.

In a “shrinkflation” world, investors might want to stop and appreciate the stock market, which is giving them more for less. While the is up 22% in the past year, valuations have actually come down, with the forward price/earnings ratio falling from 22.1 times forward earnings to 20 times, per Bloomberg data. Simply put, the “E” is rising faster than the “P.” Second-quarter earnings season has been one for the ages, with 86% of companies beating earnings estimates, above the average of 78%, and S&P 500 companies growing earnings by a startling 50.4% from one year ago, per FactSet.

Snap stock popped after it reported earnings, but soon crackled as the gains disappeared. Shares of Snap initially jumped 15% on Tuesday following its earnings release, as investors cheered stronger-than-expected revenue and earnings. All the growth is coming from the rest of the world, but those users aren’t very valuable, with average revenue per user (ARPU) of just $1, versus $10.26 in North America.

Owning these shares means signing up for significant price swings, with option pricing reflecting typical levels of market uncertainty.

The social media company sent a fortune back to its owners, but the stock went nowhere. Here’s what the cash really bought, and what has to happen next for the bet to pay off.

Meta's earnings just cratered free cash flow by over 90% and broke a six-quarter winning streak, yet nearly every analyst on Wall Street refuses to downgrade the stock. The reason why reveals something important about where this company is actually headed.

Snap stock has rallied in the last month, yet over a longer window many holders are still sitting on steep losses, which makes the current valuation read more complicated than a simple comeback story. The share price has fallen 93.0% over the past 5 years, so long term investors are still deeply under water even after the recent bounce. Expectations around future advertising revenue and new AI powered wearable products may support higher earnings power, while the risk is that these...