--- title: "Meta maintains stable dividends and reaffirms commitment to shareholder returns" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/288075682.md" description: "Meta Platforms announced that it will maintain a quarterly cash dividend of $0.525 per share, marking the sixth consecutive quarter at this level since the first dividend was paid in February 2024. This move aims to balance the massive capital expenditures on artificial intelligence infrastructure with shareholder returns. Although the company has raised its capital expenditure expectations for 2026 to $125 billion to $145 billion to support its AI strategy, the stable dividend policy reflects management's confidence in sustained profitability and cash flow generation" datetime: "2026-05-29T13:25:35.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/288075682.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/288075682.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/288075682.md) --- # Meta maintains stable dividends and reaffirms commitment to shareholder returns Social media giant Meta Platforms, while continuing to invest heavily in artificial intelligence infrastructure, announced that it will maintain a quarterly dividend of $0.525 per share, sending a positive signal to the market about balancing growth investments with shareholder returns. According to the company's official announcement, Meta's board of directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.525 per share for the issued Class A and Class B common stock. This dividend will be paid on June 25, 2026, to shareholders registered before the market close on June 15. This marks the sixth consecutive quarter that Meta has maintained this dividend level, demonstrating the company's confidence in its ongoing profitability and cash flow generation capabilities. Notably, just two days ago, Meta had raised its quarterly dividend from $0.50 to $0.525 per share, an increase of 5%. Based on the new rate, the annual dividend amounts to $2.10 per share, with a forward yield of approximately 0.4% based on recent trading levels. This increase continues the dividend trajectory that Meta has followed since it first paid a dividend in February 2024, marking the company's steady growth as a dividend payer. The backdrop of this dividend announcement is that Meta is in a critical period of large-scale investment in artificial intelligence. According to the company's first-quarter financial report, Meta's revenue for the first quarter reached $56.31 billion, a year-on-year increase of 33%, exceeding analysts' expectations of $55.51 billion; net profit reached $26.773 billion, a year-on-year increase of 61%. Meanwhile, due to rising hardware component prices and sustained demand for AI data center construction, the company has raised its full-year capital expenditure forecast for 2026 to between $125 billion and $145 billion, nearly double last year's scale. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated at the annual shareholder meeting that the substantial investment will be used for AI infrastructure, talent teams, and model development, covering four strategic areas: core application advertising enhancement, personal AI agents, enterprise AI agents, and AI hardware. He predicts that in the future, 1.5 to 2 billion people worldwide wearing glasses will turn to AI glasses, which are expected to replace smartphones as the next generation of internet access. Analysts point out that under the pressure of capital expenditures in the hundreds of billions, Meta's decision to maintain and slightly increase its dividend reflects the company's confidence in the prospects of its AI transformation while also addressing shareholders' expectations for stable returns. 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