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Additional Reading from MarketBeat.com Meta Platforms' New Bull: Why Billionaire Bill Ackman Is BuyingAuthor: Leo Miller. Article Published: 2/16/2026. 
Key Points- After a post-earnings surge, shares of Meta Platforms are getting hit.
- However, a high-profile investor is showing his support, investing around $2 billion in the company.
- Pershing Square and Bill Ackman are clearly recognizing the power of Meta's AI-enabled advertising empire.
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Magnificent Seven giant Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), despite failing to hold recent gains, has just received backing from a prominent investor. Meta shares jumped more than 10% on Jan. 29 after the firm's latest earnings report, closing around $738 that day. Since then, however, shares have given up those gains and more, closing near $640 on Feb. 13 — even though Meta is forecasting 30% revenue growth next quarter, a level it hasn't reached since 2021. Still, big investors are buying into the company's story. One of them is Pershing Square Capital Management, led by billionaire Bill Ackman. Ackman first gained fame for shorting the Municipal Bond Insurance Association (MBIA) during the Great Financial Crisis, a trade that produced sizable returns when MBIA's stock collapsed. Ackman's willingness to publicize his investments has made him a fixture in the financial world. Here's a look at Pershing's stake in Meta and the bullish case it has laid out. Pershing Takes Huge Stake in METAPershing Square released its 2026 Annual Investor Presentation on Feb. 11. The presentation states that Meta represented 10% of the firm's capital at the end of 2025. That allocation equates to roughly $2 billion. Pershing also pushed back on a common concern about Meta in the presentation, arguing the market is undervaluing the company's long-term AI-driven upside. "We believe Meta's current share price underappreciates the company's long-term upside potential from AI and represents a deeply discounted valuation for one of the world's greatest businesses." Pershing notes it began buying Meta on Nov. 24, 2025, at an average price of $625 — significant because Meta's Feb. 13 closing price was less than 3% above that level. That suggests Pershing still sees meaningful upside for META shares. Detailing Pershing's Investment Thesis on METAPershing's presentation (slide 65) outlines the strengths it sees in Meta's business. Notably, the slide does not focus on Meta developing general purpose AI models or becoming a leader in that specific domain. Instead, Pershing emphasizes the more tangible benefit: AI is boosting Meta's core advertising business. Pershing argues Meta's business model is one of the clearest beneficiaries of AI integration. Specifically, the firm points to improvements in AI-driven content recommendation systems that increase user engagement and enable more relevant, personalized advertising. This effect can be easy to overlook when investors compare Meta to hyperscalers such as Google parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). Those companies often show their AI gains more directly through cloud revenue as customers rent AI infrastructure. Meta's AI improvements, by contrast, are embedded within the performance of its advertising products. The key to Meta's strategy is maximizing return on advertising spend (ROAS) for advertisers. AI-driven ROAS improvements make businesses more likely to allocate a larger share of their ad budgets to Meta's apps. With more than 3.5 billion users, Meta offers a vast audience for advertisers. Delivering better targeting and engagement at that scale requires substantial AI investment, which counters the argument that Meta's spending won't yield an adequate payoff. META's Ads Business Needs to Keep ChuggingPershing's sizable stake is a clear vote of confidence in Meta's outlook. Meta's revenue growth accelerated each quarter in 2025, and management expects growth to accelerate again next quarter — evidence that its AI strategy may be working. That said, the company still has work to do. Continued improvements and monetization of its advertising products remain central to the bull case for Meta.
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