Why Sea Limited Stock Sank ?

Jasonc13
2021-11-17

What happened ?

Singapore-based e-commerce, payments, and online-gaming company Sea Limited (NYSE:SE) dropped 3.5% through 2:45 p.m. EST Tuesday afternoon after reporting mixed results for its fiscal Q3 2021.

Analysts had forecast Sea would lose $0.65 per share on less than $2.5 billion in sales for the quarter. As it turned out, Sea booked sales of $2.7 billion -- but lost $0.84 per share in the process.

Not all the news was bad. Sales for the quarter not only exceeded expectations but rocketed 122% year over year. Gaming revenue grew 93%, payments were up 111%, and e-commerce did best of all -- up 134% year over year.

Gross profit margins on those sales were also up, and gross profits at the company therefore outperformed sales growth, rising 148%. Nevertheless, Sea Limited also doubled its spending on research and development and sales and marketing, and these higher operating costs prevented the company from turning a profit.

To the contrary, quarterly losses grew by 34%.

Don't expect that to change -- or at least not soon. In updating its guidance for the rest of this year, Sea Limited said this morning that it's "for the second time raising the guidance for e-commerce for the full year of 2021," and forecasting 135% year-over-year growth to between $5 billion and $5.2 billion. The company didn't give any guidance for profits, however, and investors, therefore, probably shouldn't expect to see any profit at all.

On the plus side, though, 135% revenue growth at e-commerce is even faster growth than the company just reported for Q3, suggesting that in one respect, at least, Sea Limited is still growing quickly and even accelerating its growth.

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  • kyesayshi
    2021-11-20
    kyesayshi
    Buy the dip yes.

    Alot of people only loom at $Sea Ltd(SE)$ for Shoppee, but hey, Garena's stagnate for awhile now too.

    ShopeePay's rolling out slow and smoothly, so we have to factor that to!

  • 呜啦啦小魔仙
    2021-11-21
    呜啦啦小魔仙
    wew, when stock rise or drop, they need to justify it [开心]
  • kw051798
    2021-11-19
    kw051798
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