Investors Punish Zuckerberg as Costly Metaverse Pitch Falls Flat

Investors Punish Zuckerberg as Costly Metaverse Pitch Falls Flat
A 3D printed Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta in front of displayed stock graph in this illustration taken on Nov. 2, 2021. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
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Wall Street is losing patience over Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg’s enormous and experimental bets on his metaverse project that helped drive up the company’s overall costs by a fifth in the third quarter.

Investors rushed to dump Meta Platforms Inc.’s stock after hours, pushing it down 20 percent and wiping $67 billion off its market value after the company posted its fourth straight decline in quarterly profit.