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Here's what's ahead on this week's investing insights.

Earnings from meta, Amazon, and Apple provide a mix of good and bad news.

Find out whose stock we think is cheap or expensive.

Plus, IBonds' interest rate has dipped.

Our team will explain why this popular investment is still worth buying.

And what pre-retirees should put on their radar? This is Investing Insights.

Welcome to Investing Insights. I'm your host, Ivana Hampton. Let's get started with a look

at the Morning Star headlines.

Meta posted an underwhelming third quarter earnings report, along with a disappointing outlook for 2023.

But it's the Metaverse that has some analysts concerned that the company is over-promising and under-delivering.

Morningstar Research Services Senior Equity Analyst, Ali Mogherami, says,

the firm plans to invest significantly more than he had projected in 2023. However, it comes

without much clarity about when any return on this investment could be realized. Meta is also

facing pressure from TikTok, the world's most downloaded app, and that has forced

meta to spend big on its Reels short-form video content.

Mogherabi says, the Reels investment does appear to be showing some returns with increased

engagement and early signs of high monetization potential.

Meta's dependence on revenue could also take a hit in the event of an economic downturn,

and that's something Mogherabi has modeled, and it had a negative impact on his estimate of

the stock's intrinsic value.

These and other concerns have led him to lower what he thinks meta's stock is worth to $260 from $346.

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