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Meta and all these companies weren't going to be investing heavily like they are now in the AI space.

I actually have another customer that will take this compute gladly from you open AI or or maybe Meta or or some new startup that just came up

Uh less so with Meta, though there is a pricing lawsuit or mechanism lawsuit against Meta uh as well.

And then there's a smaller allegation that maybe even Meta is involved and they're all trying to scam you.

sorry, not Amazon, Meta. The allegations against Meta were that they inflated the potential reach of ads because there are so many duplicative and fake accounts. That was with the DZ reserve case claiming 7 billion in damages.

And then Iron Tribe has a lawsuit against them claiming that there are some funky pricing mechanics going on. Also similar to this second price auction thing we just outlined on the whiteboard. uh claiming that uh Meta just used sort of a blended price that raised your ultimate fee that you had to pay.

Stock number four is going to be Meta Platforms. Now, Meta Platforms is not one that really gave me anything during the earnings call, but I believe can benefit extremely well with this AI

So, Meta right now 578. Year-to-date the stock is down 11%. Obviously, there was that scaryness from all the legal lawsuits. We seen that it's gotten better, right? So, the the fears of a tobacco moment for them has has kind of gone away.

Yeah. So my first one is might seem very strange because it's not a direct beneficiary of what Nvidia has told us. One of the two is but the first one I'll talk about is Meta.

Now Meta of course spends an insane amount of money on Nvidia chips but it also spends an insane amount of money on making its own custom chips. But the connection here is about cost and not revenue.

So, the first stock that I bought a little bit more of that I already had some due to this dip that's happened and one that I think is probably the most undervalued Mag Seven stock that there is is Meta.

Meta's recent weakness is largely being driven by investor concerns over its massive AI spending. But the underlying business remains extremely strong. Q2 revenue jumped 28% advertising continues to grow and Meta's investing today to strengthen its AI capabilities and monetization.

Do you buy Meta stock or stay away? There's something unique going on with this stock. It is obviously one of our massive hyperscalers. It is the only hyperscaler that does not rent compute, and Wall Street has a few choice things to say about it.

You've got Meta stock on the one-year basis compared to Amazon and Apple, destroyed versus these other companies. Meta stock down 23%. Amazon's up 15, Apple is up 37% on a one-year timeframe.

And potentially one coming from Meta. And that is where we kick things off. Meta platform start the week at 551. Shares were up nearly 4.9% official week at 578.

Now before we get to AI, Meta obviously as you know had a big moment in the courtroom. one that was expected to last six weeks that came to a screeching halt as both sides, the attorney generals from across the country and Meta decided in a courtroom to settle.

Still holding up on stocks like uh Meta and Netflix up a couple percent. Meta really getting still left behind on this sort of legendary support line right here in this longer term convergence really indicating that you know there might be a potential to actually buy more meta at these levels because you really do sit on and close to a legendary support line. you are on a technical basis converging not straight down but rather horizontally suggesting that unless there you know the entire economy falls off a cliff it suggests there's some serious upside potential here on meta especially with the dalahalas they've got uh very interesting

In today's video, we are going to be discussing Meta's large settlement that it just had, what it means for the business and the share price, and also why the stock hasn't responded as well as many people thought it would, including myself.

So first off, let's discuss the changes that Meta needs to make to its platforms. And all of these changes are specifically for minors, which are people under the age of 18 in the United States.

The first one is a default 2-hour daily limit across its apps that teens can only disable with parent permission. A night mode from midnight to 6:00 a.m., which blocks feed, stories, reels, and the explore feature.

A school mode, which mutes notifications from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Continuous use prompts that warn the user every 15 minutes. Teens will also have a non-algorithmic feed as the default.

Teens will be able to turn off autoplay. Teens will also have likes hidden by default. There will be stronger age assurance and detection technology. And then lastly, there will be an annual independent auditor review to make sure that Meta is playing by these rules and that they are all actually being enforced.

Meta settling a teen safety lawsuit for $17 billion

Robert, you actually talked about this one uh recently. You flagged that Oakland trial of that $ 1.4 trillion threat for Meta could be very bad.

Coalition of state attorney generals were going after Meta over child safety. Meta's own filings put the theoretical ceiling at $1.4 trillion in damages.

OpenAI is going to become the going to become bigger than Meta in 3 and a half years if you believe their projections. And they're going to do that while spending more than twice of Meta's OPEX.

Meta as well, but they're not doing anything. They're just they're just rolling in their filth.

We just got news that Meta won their lawsuit. Now, they didn't technically win, they actually settled. Meta is paying out $18 billion in the dollars in the settlement. That's a lot of money.

Plus, they're having to make lots of concessions and restrictions with childhood accounts.

On August 7th, 2026, Meta was forced to pay $942 million of civil penalties to the state of New Mexico. The lawsuit was related to the addictive nature of Facebook and Instagram and the negative impacts this has on children.

But, this Meta lawsuit is different. It strikes at the core of the company's business model and how they were able to become so profitable in the first place. And, this is just the beginning.

Meta is now being sued by California, Colorado, and New Jersey. If these states win, Meta's liabilities could be astronomical with estimates ranging from $200 billion to $1.4 trillion.

Meta Stock for example, Netflix, Service Now, Salesforce are close to their 200 day moving average.

I actually was asked exactly that in our uh course member live stream. Somebody's like, "Kevin, you like Meta, you like Netflix? I even like the advertising part of Google even though I'm not exposed to Google, right?" like Kevin, what about Tradeesk?

Stocks like Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta are all aggressively issuing debt. A lot of them are even going free cash flow negative, such as Meta.

Now, coming in at number two, we do have Meta who fundamentally, again, looks very attractive. This is another stock that's trading below its historic average valuation multiple, and this is actually one of the worst performing stocks, at least Mag 7 stocks year-to-date, down by about 15%.

But, the three-year total return is still very strong. Now, they just recently started paying a dividend and the yield is small, but obviously there's a lot of dividend growth potential, and the margins on the stock are just incredible. It's the highest out of all the top 10 stocks.

This one is Meta. It's a newer position to the portfolio. Like many newer positions, ones that haven't had years to earn returns, Meta is in the red. It went down quite a bit after my initial buyin price, it's just gone down because of the bad news, the lawsuits, all the people concerned about how Meta's product may change.

In my mind, it has a lot of resemblance to what we faced with Google and the whole chat GPT scare. And I have a belief that Meta will turn out similar. And I believe Meta is actually a lot stronger than most investors are pricing in.

But regardless, my position is a 10% position in the portfolio. I have $150,000 in this stock. I'm down currently $34,000 in the red. But just like all these other stocks, I need a meaningful dip in Meta for this $10,000 to be added to it. So for this one, I set a buy target of $450.