Meta company facts for employees: earnings, dividend, headcount, 401(k)
By Vaibhav Goel, registered financial advisor (SEC record) · Formerly a product director at DoorDash, ex-Google, ex-Microsoft · LinkedIn
Updated September 17, 2026
Meta reported $60.8 billion of revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, up 28%, with a 31% operating margin and 75,472 employees. It pays $0.525 a share each quarter, has reported earnings in late January, late April, late July and late October, and its RSUs settle in Class A shares, the ticker you see as META.
Meta in numbers
Every figure here is from a filing named beside it, as of the date the source list gives. Nothing on this page is live; Meta posts the current release on its investor site.
Quarter ended June 30, 2026, unaudited, from the July 29, 2026 earnings release. Costs and expenses rose 55% to $42.0 billion, including $2.40 billion of charges related to legal proceedings and $1.18 billion of severance from the May 2026 headcount reduction; net income fell 14% to $15.8 billion. The headcount still includes about 8,000 employees affected by that reduction, most of whom Meta expects to leave the count by the end of the third quarter, and it is worldwide rather than US-only.[7] The dividend rate is from the Form 10-Q for the same quarter.[8]
What the release means for you
The date
Your trading window reopens at market open on the second full trading day after the release. It is the one date on Meta’s calendar that is also on yours.[4]
The dividend
Meta pays $0.525 a share each quarter, plus dividend equivalents on unvested RSUs; the two together came to $1.17 billion on Class A and $180 million on Class B in the June 2026 quarter.[8]
Share-based compensation
$20.43 billion in 2025, with 69.7 million RSUs granted. It is the line your grant sits in, and the dilution shareholders accept to pay you.[1]
When Meta reports
Meta announces upcoming dates on its investor site, not in a filing, and its investor-events page listed no third-quarter date when checked on September 17, 2026. The pattern from the last eleven earnings 8-Ks is late January or early February, late April, late July, and late October.[10]
| Year | Q4 (prior year) | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | January 28 | April 29 | July 29 | — |
| 2025 | January 29 | April 30 | July 30 | October 29 |
| 2024 | February 1 | April 24 | July 31 | October 30 |
- Q4 (prior year)
- January 28
- Q1
- April 29
- Q2
- July 29
- Q3
- —
- Q4 (prior year)
- January 29
- Q1
- April 30
- Q2
- July 30
- Q3
- October 29
- Q4 (prior year)
- February 1
- Q1
- April 24
- Q2
- July 31
- Q3
- October 30
Dates the earnings 8-K was filed with the SEC. The annual report has followed in late January or early February and the proxy in mid-April.[10]
Before and after the first dividend
- Current dividend
- $0.525 per share of Class A and Class B common stock each quarter. In 2025 the record dates were March 14, June 16, September 22 and December 15, with payments on March 26, June 26, September 29 and December 23; the same rate was paid in the June 2026 quarter.[1][8][43] Meta announced the September 2026 dividend on its investor site on September 10, 2026: $0.525 a share, record date September 21 and payable September 28, 2026. Declarations reach a filing later — Meta’s quarterly earnings releases do not carry them.
- How it started
- Declared for the first time on February 1, 2024, at $0.50 a share on both classes, record February 22 and payable March 26, 2024, with a $50 billion increase in the repurchase authorization announced the same day. Meta said it intended to pay quarterly going forward, subject to market conditions and board approval.[9] The 5% increase to $0.525 took effect in the first quarter of 2025.[1]
- The buyback
- The Class A repurchase program started in January 2017 and has no expiration. Meta bought back 40 million shares for $26.26 billion in 2025 and none in the first half of 2026; $25.03 billion remained authorized at both December 31, 2025 and June 30, 2026.[1][8]
- No split
- No filing reviewed describes a stock split, and the 2025 Form 10-K presents no split-adjusted per-share figures.[1]
Names and numbers for your paperwork
Meta Platforms, Inc. issues the stock and sponsors the 401(k); the employer on your W-2 may be a subsidiary. Forms ask for the details below.
| Item | As filed |
|---|---|
| Stock issuer | Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation incorporated in July 2004 and public since May 2012. 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, California 94025. CEO Mark Zuckerberg; CFO Susan Li. Fiscal year ends December 31.[1] |
| EIN | 20-1665019, from the cover of the Form 10-K.[1] |
| Share classes | Class A carries one vote and is the only class registered and listed: META on Nasdaq. Class B carries ten votes, is not listed or publicly traded, and converts one-for-one into Class A. At December 31, 2025 there were 2,187 million Class A and 343 million Class B shares outstanding, and Class A closed the year at $660.09.[1] |
| Equity plans | The 2025 Equity Incentive Plan, effective May 2025, and the predecessor 2012 plan, which issues no new awards. 454 million Class A shares were reserved for future issuance at December 31, 2025 and 436 million at June 30, 2026, after an automatic increase on January 1. No employee stock purchase plan appears in any filing.[1][8] |
| Stock options | New in the 2026 filings: nonstatutory options over 20 million Class A shares to certain executives and employees in the first half of the year, at a weighted-average exercise price of $2,788 and about five years of remaining term. The filing does not say who received them or how they vest.[8] |
| Headcount | 78,865 worldwide at December 31, 2025; 75,472 at June 30, 2026. Worldwide Meta, not US-only.[1][7] |
| 401(k) sponsor | Meta Platforms, Inc., the same entity and EIN as the stock issuer.[34] |
| 401(k) plan | Meta Platforms, Inc 401(k) Plan, plan number 001, established January 1, 2006 and filed under the Facebook name through plan year 2020. Trustee and custodian Fidelity Management Trust Company; recordkeeper a Fidelity affiliate, at NetBenefits. These are the details a rollover or QDRO form asks for.[34][41] |
| Plan scale | $22.4 billion in net assets and 91,967 accounts with a balance at the end of 2025, in the audited return received June 18, 2026.[34] |
| Filer details | CIK 0001326801, commission file number 001-35551. Every filing cited on this page is on EDGAR under that CIK.[10][1] |
- As filed
- Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation incorporated in July 2004 and public since May 2012. 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, California 94025. CEO Mark Zuckerberg; CFO Susan Li. Fiscal year ends December 31.[1]
- As filed
- 20-1665019, from the cover of the Form 10-K.[1]
- As filed
- Class A carries one vote and is the only class registered and listed: META on Nasdaq. Class B carries ten votes, is not listed or publicly traded, and converts one-for-one into Class A. At December 31, 2025 there were 2,187 million Class A and 343 million Class B shares outstanding, and Class A closed the year at $660.09.[1]
- As filed
- The 2025 Equity Incentive Plan, effective May 2025, and the predecessor 2012 plan, which issues no new awards. 454 million Class A shares were reserved for future issuance at December 31, 2025 and 436 million at June 30, 2026, after an automatic increase on January 1. No employee stock purchase plan appears in any filing.[1][8]
- As filed
- New in the 2026 filings: nonstatutory options over 20 million Class A shares to certain executives and employees in the first half of the year, at a weighted-average exercise price of $2,788 and about five years of remaining term. The filing does not say who received them or how they vest.[8]
- As filed
- Meta Platforms, Inc., the same entity and EIN as the stock issuer.[34]
- As filed
- Meta Platforms, Inc 401(k) Plan, plan number 001, established January 1, 2006 and filed under the Facebook name through plan year 2020. Trustee and custodian Fidelity Management Trust Company; recordkeeper a Fidelity affiliate, at NetBenefits. These are the details a rollover or QDRO form asks for.[34][41]
- As filed
- $22.4 billion in net assets and 91,967 accounts with a balance at the end of 2025, in the audited return received June 18, 2026.[34]
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