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Bryn Talkington Meta Platforms Inc / Facebook META-Q BUY Feb 07, 2025

DeepSeek was a wake-up call that Meta is spending heavily in open-source. She expects an ROI here. Meta is an ad company and can monetize AI quickly as opposed to Google and the other Mag 7 that are questionable.

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Of the Mag 7, he likes this, but it's tough to buy at currently high levels. For an options trade: sell that $650 put (almost 10% downside) into May, then collect $21.50, which is a large premium, but huge downside protection.

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Generally, big tech are good companies, but have lost ground recently and their valuations have been nosebleeds for a long time. Meta is basically Facebook; he can message his mother in New Zealand cheaply, but fundamentally what will it do for him? Is it a sustainable business model. It's too early to say which of these names is a buy the dip, buy you could trim or take some names off the table.

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It's a pure ad play and ads struggle in a slowdown. He worries about its AI platform--others are better.