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META Jun 2025 205.000 put
| Previous close | 3.3000 |
| Open | 4.2500 |
| Bid | 3.4000 |
| Ask | 3.8500 |
| Strike | 205.00 |
| Expiry date | 2025-06-20 |
| Day's range | 4.2500 - 4.3100 |
| Contract range | N/A |
| Volume | |
| Open interest | 48 |
- Yahoo Finance Video
Alphabet stock pops off on Q1 earnings beat, cash dividend
Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG) declares a cash dividend of $0.20 per share to investors while reporting a first-quarter earnings beat; the Google parent company topped expectations on the top and bottom lines, posting adjusted earnings of $1.89 per share (against estimates of $1.53) and $67.59 billion (against estimates of $66.07 billion). And Alphabet's stock is overjoyed, surging as high as 13% in Thursday's after-hours trading session. Yahoo Finance Markets Reporter Josh Schafer joins Julie Hyman and Jared Blikre on Market Domination Overtime to break down the tech giant's quarterly results, comparing and contrasting Alphabet's earnings performance to that of Big Tech peers such as Meta Platforms (META). For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination Overtime. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.
- Yahoo Finance Video
Gen AI has real sustainability issues: Early Facebook investor
Meta Platforms (META) is all in on generative AI with some on Wall Street believing its executions in artificial intelligence deployments are out-performing peers in the tech space. While reporting a first-quarter earnings beat on the top and bottom line yesterday, Meta's stock has been dragged lower into Thursday's session on the tech giant's disappointing second-quarter outlook. On Meta's earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg believed there's "a clear monetizable opportunity" for up-scalings on AI even though investors fear it will detract from Meta's core business component: its digital advertising. Elevation Partners Co-Founder Roger McNamee — who was an early Meta investor when it originally operated as Facebook — sits down with Yahoo Finance to weigh in on Meta's new AI direction and shares his criticisms on Big Tech's early generative AI adoption before working out the kinks. "If you believe that generative AI is real, then these investments may well work. The challenge that we have here is that this is a classic example of a product category where the demos are mind-bending, but the reality is something far less than that," McNamee explains. "And I think that we have seen consistently in use case after use case that the actual performance in the field has real issues, and the industry itself is trying to pretend like it's not a problem, that the amount of electrical power it requires is greater than the largest states in the country, that it needs more water than a small country. That the architecture itself appears to be deeply flawed..." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.
Yahoo FinanceTikTok vows to take US ban bill to the courts. It faces an uphill climb.
TikTok has vowed to challenge in court a new law that could result in a ban of the video app in the US, but it could find that it is on less-than-solid legal ground.
