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META vs VNET
Side-by-side comparison of Meta Platforms Inc. (META) and VNET Group Inc. (VNET): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both META and VNET operate in Computer Software: Programming Data Processing (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
- META is the larger of the two at $1.45T, about 740.3x VNET ($1.96B).
- Over the past year, META is down 24.4% and VNET is down 12.0% - VNET leads by 12.4 points.
- META has been more active in the news (24 items in the past 4 weeks vs 5 for VNET).
- META has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 13 for VNET).
- Company
- Meta Platforms Inc.
- VNET Group Inc.
- Price
- $569.99+1.96%
- $6.87+6.35%
- Market cap
- $1.45T
- $1.96B
- 1M return
- -4.01%
- -4.18%
- 1Y return
- -24.44%
- -12.04%
- Industry
- Computer Software: Programming Data Processing
- Computer Software: Programming Data Processing
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- 2012
- 2011
- News (4w)
- 24
- 5
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 13
Meta Platforms Inc.
Meta Platforms, Inc. develops products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, wearables, and in-home devices worldwide. It operates in two segments, Family of Apps and Reality Labs. The Family of Apps segment's products include Facebook, which enables people to share, discover, and connect with interests; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and private messages, as well as feed, stories, reels, video, live, and shops; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices through chat, audio and video calls, and rooms; and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is used by people and businesses to communicate and transact privately. The Reality Labs segment provides augmented and virtual reality related products comprising virtual reality hardware, software, and content that help people feel connected, anytime, and anywhere. The company was formerly known as Facebook, Inc. and changed its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. in October 2021. Meta Platforms, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
VNET Group Inc.
VNET Group, Inc., an investment holding company, provides hosting and related services to Internet companies, government entities, blue-chip enterprises, and small-to mid-sized enterprises in the People's Republic of China. It offers hosting and related services to house servers and networking equipment in its data centers, and connects them through a data transmission network. The company's hosting and related services include managed hosting services that offer data center space to house its customers' servers and networking equipment, and provide tailored server administration services; and interconnectivity services that enable customers to connect their servers with internet backbones and other networks through its border gateway protocol network or single-line, dual-line, or multiple-line network. Its hosting and related services also comprise cloud services that enable businesses to run their applications over the internet using its IT infrastructure; virtual private network services; hybrid IT Services, which provide customers with a complete package of infrastructure service offerings; and other value-added services, such as firewall, server load balancing, data backup and recovery, data center management, server management, and backup server services. In addition, the company provides traffic charts and analysis, gateway monitoring for servers, domain name system setup, defense mechanism against distributed denial of service attacks, basic setting of switches and routers, and virus protections; and managed network service. As of December 31, 2020, it operated 32 self-built data centers housing 49,876 cabinets and 52 partnered data centers housing with 3,677 cabinets. It has a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corporation. The company was formerly known as 21Vianet Group, Inc. and changed its name to VNET Group, Inc. in October 2021. VNET Group, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.
Latest META
- Chief Legal Officer Mahoney Curtis J. sold $869,922 worth of shares (1,559 units at $558.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 44% to 1,957 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Financial Officer Li Susan J sold $5,063,389 worth of shares (9,196 units at $550.61) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Technology Officer Bosworth Andrew sold $4,379,184 worth of shares (7,848 units at $558.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 90% to 828 units (SEC Form 4)
- President and Vice Chairman Powell Dina H. converted options into 7,732 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 3,518 shares, increasing direct ownership by 64% to 10,826 units (SEC Form 4) to cover withholding tax
- Director Arnold John Douglas converted options into 167 shares, increasing direct ownership by 5% to 3,329 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director White Dana converted options into 110 shares, increasing direct ownership by 8% to 1,504 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Elkann John converted options into 110 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 8 shares, increasing direct ownership by 8% to 1,445 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax
- Chief Financial Officer Li Susan J covered exercise/tax liability with 6,922 shares, converted options into 4,288 shares, sold $1,467,311 worth of shares (2,127 units at $689.85) and converted options into 13,957 shares (SEC Form 4) (withholding tax)
- Chief Product Officer Cox Christopher K converted options into 16,388 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 8,127 shares (SEC Form 4) (withholding tax)
- Chief Accounting Officer Anderson Aaron converted options into 2,448 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 1,216 shares, increasing direct ownership by 15% to 9,511 units (SEC Form 4) (tax liability)
Latest VNET
- SEC Form 6-K filed by VNET Group Inc.
- VNET Reports Unaudited Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
- VNET Announces Strategic Cooperation with CATL
- VNET to Announce Unaudited Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results on August 18, 2026
- Director Chen David Lifeng converted options into 83,544 units of Class A ordinary shares, increasing direct ownership by 20% to 501,252 units (SEC Form 4)
- Deutsche Bank initiated coverage on VNET Group with a new price target
- Director Shao Sean sold $102,798 worth of Class A ordinary shares (60,000 units at $1.71), decreasing direct ownership by 6% to 983,820 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 6-K filed by VNET Group Inc.
- VNET Reports Unaudited First Quarter 2026 Financial Results
- SVP, Operational Finance Zhang Zhihua converted options into 42,996 units of Class A ordinary shares and sold $15,373 worth of Class A ordinary shares (9,072 units at $1.69) (SEC Form 4)