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Meta Platforms (META) fell 1.97% to $628.77 on November 11, 2026, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.60%.
The Wall Street Journal tied the drop to United Airlines' plan to block personal AI assistants from its ticket booking systems.
Meta trailed the Nasdaq by 3.57 percentage points and closed 19.37% below its 52-week high of $779.82.
Gotrade News - In the latest Meta stock news, shares of Meta Platforms (META) fell 1.97% to $628.77 on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, a loss of $12.62 in a session when the major US indices closed higher. The Wall Street Journal tied the slip in Meta stock to United Airlines' plan to block personal AI assistants from the systems it uses to book tickets.
META Trading Data
Data
Value
Closing price
$628.77
Change
-$12.62 (-1.97%)
Previous close
$641.39
Open
$646.74
Day range
$627.97 to $648.45
Volume
15.6 million shares
30-day average volume
21.7 million shares
52-week range
$520.26 to $779.82
Regular-session close on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 4:00 p.m. New York time. Stock prices: Yahoo Finance, cross-checked against the closing price on Nasdaq.com. Volume and 30-day average volume: Nasdaq.com. 52-week range: Yahoo Finance daily highs and lows since November 12, 2025. Indices: Yahoo Finance daily closes for the same date.
Meta opened at $646.74, above the previous close of $641.39, and reached a session high of $648.45 before sellers took control. The stock then slid to a low of $627.97 and finished only $0.80 above it, near the bottom of the day's range.
Volume came to 15.6 million shares, 27.85% below the average of 21.7 million shares.
The decline ran against the broader market. The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.60% to 25,466.19, the S&P 500 gained 1.31% to 7,619.38 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.49% to 52,486.49, leaving Meta 3.57 percentage points behind the Nasdaq.
Large-cap peers were split. Alphabet (GOOGL) rose 2.11%, Nvidia gained 2.87% and Apple added 2.04%, while Microsoft (MSFT) fell 2.26% and Amazon (AMZN) lost 1.74%. Meta closed 19.37% below its 52-week high of $779.82 and 20.86% above its 52-week low of $520.26.
Why Meta Stock Fell
According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta shares fell about 2% after the paper reported that United Airlines plans to block personal AI assistants from the systems it uses for booking tickets.
As reported by One Mile at a Time, United updated its contract of carriage to prohibit "the use of AI Agents to make, modify or service a Ticket, and/or to purchase any service or product." The airline's definition explicitly covers AI assistants built into social media or search platforms, AI-enabled browsers and third-party assistants that connect through travel agencies. In a release, United said, "Sharing account credentials with personal, third-party, AI assistants can expose sensitive information."
Meta also had company news during the session. According to CNBC, Santosh Janardhan, Meta's head of infrastructure, wrote in an internal memo that "it's time to pass the baton" to David Brown, a former AWS senior vice president who joined Meta in July. Janardhan will leave in 2027 after supporting Brown through the first quarter. The report did not link the announcement to the share move.
META Stock Analysis: Supporting Factors and Risks
Supporting Factors
The infrastructure handover is planned: Brown will lead Meta's infrastructure work under the Meta Compute initiative, and Janardhan will stay through the first quarter of 2027 to support him, according to CNBC.
The data center tax risk is a scenario, not legislation. TIKR notes that Democrats have not formally proposed ending 100% expensing, and that a cut would spread deductions over future years rather than remove them.
Risks
United's rule reaches AI assistants built into social media and search platforms, and the airline said it will restrict that access both on its own platforms and through travel agencies and aggregators, per One Mile at a Time.
Spending remains heavy. CNBC reports that Meta expects full-year capital expenditure of $135 billion to $145 billion, logged negative free cash flow of $2.12 billion, and saw S&P Global Ratings change its outlook on the company from stable to negative in late October.
Democrats, set to control both chambers of Congress in January after the November 3 midterms, could seek to end 100% expensing for data center equipment, according to Baird Strategas' Daniel Clifton as cited by TIKR. TIKR adds that Meta has no third-party cloud business, which may leave it more exposed than Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon.
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