Facebook Stock Falls 6% After META Ticker Change

Facebook stock drops 6% when renaming stock code to META

When Facebook changed its name to META, the company suffered many attacks.

The rebranding did not bring any immediate change in assets to the social media giant’s highly-rated stock.

When the stock market closed on Thursday, shares formerly known as Facebook fell 6.43% during the day. META is currently valued at $184, which appears to be near the lowest ever recorded level of $174.95 at the end of April.

By October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg had officially announced that Facebook would change its name to META to accommodate the company’s future operations better. More particularly, the company wants to look to Metaverse when it sees the enormous potential of this technology.

Metaverse is the concept of an immersive collection of digital spaces and worlds navigated by internet users through 3D avatars. Many developers, including Zuckerberg, believe Metaverse will become the future hub for work, shopping, entertainment, and social interaction.

At that time, the whole market seemed to be on the verge of changing the company’s goals. However, since the announcement of the name change, the company’s stock has fallen 42%. In February 2022, META declined 26% within just one day as the Q4 2021 earnings report showed sluggish user growth as the company shifted resources to metaverse-related ambitions.

Does the decline imply a further loss of confidence in Metaverse’s super-reverse shift? Or is it merely the actual result of a symbolic change, a logistical barrier that can affect trading volume? Financial news service Barrons noted today that the researchers have found that “significantly reduced trading volume” tends to follow stock code changes.

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