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title: "If You Had Invested $1,000 in Meta Platforms Stock at Its IPO, Here's How Much You Would Have Right Now"
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description: "Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) has seen significant growth since its IPO in 2012, with an initial investment of $1,000 now worth over $17,000. Despite early challenges, including a botched IPO and a failed pivot to the metaverse, the company has leveraged its social media dominance and is now focusing on artificial intelligence. While its growth may not match smaller-cap stocks, Meta's strong position in social media and AI suggests continued potential for returns."
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# If You Had Invested $1,000 in Meta Platforms Stock at Its IPO, Here's How Much You Would Have Right Now

**Meta Platforms** (META 1.91%) stock has benefited from considerable growth since its IPO in 2012. The social media giant, then named Facebook after its flagship site, grew to become the leading social media stock.

Additionally, sites it acquired or created, such as Instagram, Messenger, and Threads, helped cement its dominance. While it has contended with challenges such as its misstep into the metaverse and the rise of TikTok, its stock has generated massive returns in nearly 13 years of trading.

## Meta since its IPO

The stock, now known as Meta Platforms, launched its IPO on May 18, 2012, when the Facebook parent introduced it at a price of $38 per share. At that time, $1,000 would have bought 26 shares, leaving that investor with a little over $17,000 worth of stock today.

  
META data by YCharts.

However, its growth path was not always a smooth journey. The IPO was unusual, as the stock was well into large-cap territory at the time of its launch, attaining a market cap of more than $80 billion on its first day of trading.

Moreover, the company botched the IPO, with both regulators and investors taking legal action against Meta and the IPO's underwriter amid the poor performance.

Still, after more than a year of struggle, Meta stock began moving higher, as it better leveraged its social media leadership to sell ads and grow its daily user base to 3.3 _billion_, a level moving toward global saturation.

The only major pullback was in 2021 and 2022, when it attempted to address global saturation by changing the company's name and pivoting into the metaverse. That strategy failed to attract interest, and the stock plunged.

Today, its metaverse segment, Reality Labs, has shifted its focus to artificial intelligence (AI), and with that, investors have bid the stock to record highs.

Indeed, with Meta starting its trading history as a large-cap, it may not earn returns as massive as other "Magnificent Seven" stocks that started trading as small-cap stocks. Still, its growth could continue as it leverages its social media and AI dominance.

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