[eclectic29]

Why are Meta quarterly results so special that they always enjoy the front page of HN?

[whyenot]

For the same reason Google's and Apple's results also reach the front page. HN users upvote the posts. Maybe it's because Meta is one of the largest tech companies in the world and for many people their results are interesting news.

[whywhywhydude]

Because it’s one of the biggest tech companies and its results foreshadow earnings for other tech companies. Just look at the after hours price movements of most of the tech stocks.

[neverokay]

It’s a trillion dollar company dude. Many people laughed at their 1B ipo valuation.

Basically, never ignore these things.

[cmrdporcupine]

Man, I bought some stock a bit after IPO, it dropped a bunch, and I idiotically sold later at a slight loss in 2013 after people all around me constantly went on about how they would never make money. It's now worth 17 times what I sold at.

I also remember around Google's IPO people questioning how they'd ever make money.

[hipadev23]

FAANG (or whatever the acronym is this week) quarterly results always make front page.

[loeg]

It's the 6th biggest company in the US.