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At a glance
- $SNAP today−2.55%last $4.96
- 52-week range30.2% above low$3.81 – $9.13
- Coverage70 this week300 in 30 days · about its usual pace
- Next upIn 81 days$META earnings
- Sector scannerCalmCommunication Services
What it means
- What to watch: The subscriber count gets the headline; revenue per user and churn tell the actual story.
- How the stocks are trading: $SNAP -2.55%, $META +0.84%, $GOOGL +0.78% in the latest session.
- Timing: Weekend news: the change beside it is Friday's, and Monday's open is the first session that gets a say. Market holidays are not detected.
Where the stock stands
$SNAP last traded at $4.96, -2.55% on the session. That puts it 46% shy of its 52-week high of $9.13 and 30% clear of its low of $3.81 — in the lower part of the range. Over the year it has ranged 140% from low to high: a very wide band; big swings are routine for this one, not news. $META last traded at $610.15, +0.84% on the session. That puts it 22% shy of its 52-week high of $779.82 and 17% clear of its low of $520.26 — a little below the middle of the range. Over the year it has ranged 50% from low to high: a moderate band — lively, not wild. These are latest-session quotes, not live prices.
How much coverage it is getting
In the last 30 days Wook has filed at least 300 stories about these names — 70 of them this week. At its 30-day pace you would expect about 70 a week, so this week is about normal — and for this name, busy is the resting state. Across those stories the wording ran 16% bullish, 64% neutral and 20% bearish — mostly headline writers keeping a straight face. This one reads neutral, so it sits squarely with the crowd. 45 came from CNBC; the rest came from other outlets, so this is a story more than one newsroom is chasing. 12 related stories from the same name or desk are listed beside this one.
The bigger picture
In media and telecom, the subscriber count gets the headline, but the economics live in what each customer pays and what it costs to keep them from leaving. On Wook's supply-chain scanner, Communication Services reads calm today — no unusual stress in the filings and disclosures it watches. The scanner equivalent of a quiet night shift.
Coming up
$META earnings in 81 days and $SNAP earnings in 88 days. These were on the calendar before this story and are not caused by it.
What to watch next
The $SNAP page has the full chart, the filings and the valuation model behind every figure here. Comparing how two or three outlets frame the same story is the fastest way to separate the facts from the angle. Wook AI, above, can pull live figures and run the numbers on request — how far $SNAP is from its high, or how this week's coverage compares.
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