Jim Cramer wants you to hold Meta through its litigation risk. The lawsuits are real. The court dates exist. The company is getting dragged through the legal system while you watch your portfolio app refresh every eleven seconds hoping the line goes up.
But the fundamentals are strong.
That's the pitch. Ignore the lawyers. Ignore the judges. Ignore the billion-dollar settlement risk hanging over the company like a piano suspended by dental floss. Focus instead on something called business fundamentals, which is what we tell people to care about when the stock price refuses to cooperate with our predictions.
Cramer says Meta is worth the wait. The wait for what, exactly? The wait for the litigation to resolve? The wait for the stock to remember it's supposed to go up because a guy on television said so? The wait for retail traders to forget they bought at the top because someone told them the metaverse was the future and now they're holding shares in a company that spends billions building cartoon avatars with no legs?
Technical analysis says none of this matters. The chart doesn't care about Jim Cramer's opinion. The chart doesn't read legal briefs. The chart moves because buyers and sellers click buttons, and right now they're clicking buttons while thinking about lawsuits, which means the lawsuit is already priced in or it isn't, and if you don't know which one it is, you're trading on hope disguised as research.
Meta's business fundamentals make it worth holding, apparently. Those fundamentals include a social network people hate but can't quit, an advertising machine that prints money while Congress yells at Mark Zuckerberg, and a VR division that loses billions per quarter building a future nobody asked for.
The stock is worth the wait if you believe waiting is a strategy and not just what you call it when you're down thirty percent and too stubborn to sell.
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