Facebook-parent Meta has mentioned on Thursday that it would prepare its first-ever bond offering, during the time the social media company would be making massive investments for funding its virtual reality projects. Meta has not disclosed the size of the offering but it might use the proceeds for capital expenditures, share repurchases, acquisitions or investments.

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Meta would sell four tranches of bonds with maturities starting from 5 to 40 years
Meta is now working on funds that could be used in its virtual reality projects
Meta’s free-cash flow has been depleting

Meta has been selling four tranches of bonds with maturities starting from 5 years to 40 years.

Among all the big tech companies, Meta has been the only one that does not have any debt on its books. If they would tap the market recently, then it would provide it with some extra financial room as it would try to fund some expensive overhauls. Thus, it would include a bet on augmented and virtual reality technology it was mentioned by the investors who had heard its presentation for the bond offering on Tuesday.

It might even be a rare chance to do so comparatively cheaply within the current market scenario. Corporate bonds have rebounded within the past month after a rout earlier this year, as investors had a hope that the US Federal Reserve's fight against inflation through fast rate would get increased as it had started to have some kind of impact.

The US investment grade primary bond markets have rebounded this week, with the companies who all have been raised to more than $38 billion which had made it as the eight busiest week of the year.

Bankers and investors have mentioned such issuance windows could also be rare in coming months. One banker responsible of a bond syndicate desk at a US bank had mentioned that credit spreads may get widen later this year, which would increase the funding prices.

Meta's bond issuance would come after the company would issue a gloomy forecast and record its first-ever quarterly drop in revenue, with recession fears and competitive pressures which would weigh on its digital ads sales.

Well, it’s free-cash flow has been depleting because it charges more with its metaverse plans, that would led the modification in its name to Meta from Facebook last year.

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