3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know

Motley Fool2021-12-10

Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that...

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evey77
2021-12-14
evey77
When Shopee is good for consumers (in terms ofall the discount vouchers), intuitively, I felt it’s bad for the stockholders [LOL] But oh well, the desire to spend the coins I accumulated makes me go back to it again and again… loss-making opium [Tongue]
- evey77:
  Isn’t it a good thing that I’m shopper and not a stockholder? [LOL]
- ET77:
  U shop alot!
Evie85
2021-12-13
Evie85
Thanks
IAS
2021-12-11
IAS
A potential company
Firecookies
2021-12-11
Firecookies
Thanks!
BigStonks101
2021-12-11
BigStonks101
Yet the price keeps dropping. Doesnt make sense eh?
Atan29
2021-12-10
Atan29
IT's interesting how when SE price was on the rise that every single article was about how amazing SE is and how it's gonna be a multibagger.Now that the stock price took a beating, you start seeing articles sounding caution on SE's business model.Literally 后知后觉.
- IAS:
  Market noise

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The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.</p>\n<p><i>Free Fire's</i>success significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/62a40cb0cfc26f2711593eeadadb17b1\" tg-width=\"794\" tg-height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Therefore, Sea clearly needs&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.</p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>momentum, expand the franchise with new versions (like<i>Free Fire MAX</i>for higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.</p>\n<p>2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America</p>\n<p>When Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by&nbsp;<b>MercadoLibre</b>(NASDAQ:MELI), the&nbsp;800-pound gorilla&nbsp;of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.</p>\n<p>As a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.</p>\n<p>Sea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.</p>\n<p>In other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>growth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.</p>\n<p>3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank</p>\n<p>Shopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea&nbsp;Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.</p>\n<p>Sea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/40d393bcaa2441a53a52b8f0e431b310\" tg-width=\"791\" tg-height=\"241\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.</p>\n<p>A wobbly (but promising) business model</p>\n<p>These three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.</p>\n<p>On the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended&nbsp;the third quarter&nbsp;with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. 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The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.\nFree Fire'ssuccess significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.Therefore, Sea clearly needs Free Fire to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.\nLooking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain Free Fire'smomentum, expand the franchise with new versions (likeFree Fire MAXfor higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.\n2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America\nWhen Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by MercadoLibre(NASDAQ:MELI), the 800-pound gorilla of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.\nAs a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.\nSea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.\nIn other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining Free Fire'sgrowth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.\n3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank\nShopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.\nSea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on Free Fire to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.\nA wobbly (but promising) business model\nThese three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.\nOn the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended the third quarter with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.\nI believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6967724,"gmtCreate":1639416820776,"gmtModify":1639416820807,"authorId":3570619054429964,"author":{"id":3570619054429964,"authorId":3570619054429964,"name":"evey77","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8a042e238635d0f206ea5cc76045eb40","vip":1,"crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":604562443,"type":1,"supId":6967704,"prevId":0,"content":"Isn’t it a good thing that I’m shopper and not a stockholder? [LOL]","text":"Isn’t it a good thing that I’m shopper and not a stockholder? [LOL]","html":"Isn’t it a good thing that I’m shopper and not a stockholder? [LOL]"},{"id":6967704,"gmtCreate":1639416473547,"gmtModify":1639416473583,"authorId":3565944798085236,"author":{"id":3565944798085236,"authorId":3565944798085236,"name":"ET77","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2c73ac2c436c2e43d9b78a2c52d24cb7","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":604562443,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"U shop alot! ","text":"U shop alot! ","html":"U shop alot! "}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":604222774,"gmtCreate":1639405848004,"gmtModify":1639405848632,"author":{"id":"3582325424620976","authorId":"3582325424620976","name":"Evie85","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/cd748ce45187b26e263b88e09acdb161","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Thanks&nbsp;","listText":"Thanks&nbsp;","text":"Thanks","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/604222774","repostId":1195107888,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1195107888","pubTimestamp":1639113421,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1195107888?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-10 13:17","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1195107888","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-c","content":"<p>Most investors likely know three things about&nbsp;<b>Sea Limited</b>(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that it is deeply unprofitable.</p>\n<p>But this tech company is actually fairly complex, and to better understand its sprawling business, it's worth examining three finer points about it that garner a lot less attention: its dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire;</i>&nbsp;its expansion plans in Latin America; and the growth of its fintech ecosystem.</p>\n<p>1.<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;is the wind in Sea's sails</p>\n<p>Four years ago, Garena launched&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>, its first self-developed mobile game. The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.</p>\n<p><i>Free Fire's</i>success significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/62a40cb0cfc26f2711593eeadadb17b1\" tg-width=\"794\" tg-height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Therefore, Sea clearly needs&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.</p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>momentum, expand the franchise with new versions (like<i>Free Fire MAX</i>for higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.</p>\n<p>2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America</p>\n<p>When Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by&nbsp;<b>MercadoLibre</b>(NASDAQ:MELI), the&nbsp;800-pound gorilla&nbsp;of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.</p>\n<p>As a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.</p>\n<p>Sea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.</p>\n<p>In other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>growth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.</p>\n<p>3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank</p>\n<p>Shopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea&nbsp;Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.</p>\n<p>Sea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/40d393bcaa2441a53a52b8f0e431b310\" tg-width=\"791\" tg-height=\"241\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.</p>\n<p>A wobbly (but promising) business model</p>\n<p>These three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.</p>\n<p>On the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended&nbsp;the third quarter&nbsp;with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.</p>\n<p>I believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.</p>\n<p></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-10 13:17 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SE":"Sea Ltd"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1195107888","content_text":"Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that it is deeply unprofitable.\nBut this tech company is actually fairly complex, and to better understand its sprawling business, it's worth examining three finer points about it that garner a lot less attention: its dependence on Free Fire; its expansion plans in Latin America; and the growth of its fintech ecosystem.\n1.Free Fire is the wind in Sea's sails\nFour years ago, Garena launched Free Fire, its first self-developed mobile game. The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.\nFree Fire'ssuccess significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.Therefore, Sea clearly needs Free Fire to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.\nLooking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain Free Fire'smomentum, expand the franchise with new versions (likeFree Fire MAXfor higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.\n2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America\nWhen Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by MercadoLibre(NASDAQ:MELI), the 800-pound gorilla of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.\nAs a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.\nSea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.\nIn other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining Free Fire'sgrowth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.\n3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank\nShopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.\nSea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on Free Fire to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.\nA wobbly (but promising) business model\nThese three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.\nOn the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended the third quarter with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.\nI believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":605257074,"gmtCreate":1639184131748,"gmtModify":1639184132021,"author":{"id":"3576136694569207","authorId":"3576136694569207","name":"IAS","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/933fbcc1d9c75b4ff82486f8a48a3e7c","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"A potential company&nbsp;","listText":"A potential company&nbsp;","text":"A potential company","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/605257074","repostId":1195107888,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1195107888","pubTimestamp":1639113421,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1195107888?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-10 13:17","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1195107888","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-c","content":"<p>Most investors likely know three things about&nbsp;<b>Sea Limited</b>(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that it is deeply unprofitable.</p>\n<p>But this tech company is actually fairly complex, and to better understand its sprawling business, it's worth examining three finer points about it that garner a lot less attention: its dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire;</i>&nbsp;its expansion plans in Latin America; and the growth of its fintech ecosystem.</p>\n<p>1.<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;is the wind in Sea's sails</p>\n<p>Four years ago, Garena launched&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>, its first self-developed mobile game. The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.</p>\n<p><i>Free Fire's</i>success significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/62a40cb0cfc26f2711593eeadadb17b1\" tg-width=\"794\" tg-height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Therefore, Sea clearly needs&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.</p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>momentum, expand the franchise with new versions (like<i>Free Fire MAX</i>for higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.</p>\n<p>2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America</p>\n<p>When Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by&nbsp;<b>MercadoLibre</b>(NASDAQ:MELI), the&nbsp;800-pound gorilla&nbsp;of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.</p>\n<p>As a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.</p>\n<p>Sea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.</p>\n<p>In other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>growth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.</p>\n<p>3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank</p>\n<p>Shopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea&nbsp;Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.</p>\n<p>Sea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/40d393bcaa2441a53a52b8f0e431b310\" tg-width=\"791\" tg-height=\"241\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.</p>\n<p>A wobbly (but promising) business model</p>\n<p>These three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.</p>\n<p>On the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended&nbsp;the third quarter&nbsp;with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.</p>\n<p>I believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.</p>\n<p></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-10 13:17 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SE":"Sea Ltd"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1195107888","content_text":"Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that it is deeply unprofitable.\nBut this tech company is actually fairly complex, and to better understand its sprawling business, it's worth examining three finer points about it that garner a lot less attention: its dependence on Free Fire; its expansion plans in Latin America; and the growth of its fintech ecosystem.\n1.Free Fire is the wind in Sea's sails\nFour years ago, Garena launched Free Fire, its first self-developed mobile game. The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.\nFree Fire'ssuccess significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.Therefore, Sea clearly needs Free Fire to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.\nLooking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain Free Fire'smomentum, expand the franchise with new versions (likeFree Fire MAXfor higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.\n2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America\nWhen Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by MercadoLibre(NASDAQ:MELI), the 800-pound gorilla of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.\nAs a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.\nSea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.\nIn other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining Free Fire'sgrowth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.\n3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank\nShopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.\nSea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on Free Fire to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.\nA wobbly (but promising) business model\nThese three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.\nOn the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended the third quarter with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.\nI believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":605624504,"gmtCreate":1639156041011,"gmtModify":1639156072681,"author":{"id":"3581905304322072","authorId":"3581905304322072","name":"Firecookies","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/535d566c31661a1ca0fe7641064aea02","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Thanks!","listText":"Thanks!","text":"Thanks!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/605624504","repostId":1195107888,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1195107888","pubTimestamp":1639113421,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1195107888?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-10 13:17","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1195107888","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-c","content":"<p>Most investors likely know three things about&nbsp;<b>Sea Limited</b>(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that it is deeply unprofitable.</p>\n<p>But this tech company is actually fairly complex, and to better understand its sprawling business, it's worth examining three finer points about it that garner a lot less attention: its dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire;</i>&nbsp;its expansion plans in Latin America; and the growth of its fintech ecosystem.</p>\n<p>1.<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;is the wind in Sea's sails</p>\n<p>Four years ago, Garena launched&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>, its first self-developed mobile game. The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.</p>\n<p><i>Free Fire's</i>success significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/62a40cb0cfc26f2711593eeadadb17b1\" tg-width=\"794\" tg-height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Therefore, Sea clearly needs&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.</p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>momentum, expand the franchise with new versions (like<i>Free Fire MAX</i>for higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.</p>\n<p>2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America</p>\n<p>When Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by&nbsp;<b>MercadoLibre</b>(NASDAQ:MELI), the&nbsp;800-pound gorilla&nbsp;of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.</p>\n<p>As a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.</p>\n<p>Sea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.</p>\n<p>In other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>growth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.</p>\n<p>3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank</p>\n<p>Shopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea&nbsp;Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.</p>\n<p>Sea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/40d393bcaa2441a53a52b8f0e431b310\" tg-width=\"791\" tg-height=\"241\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.</p>\n<p>A wobbly (but promising) business model</p>\n<p>These three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.</p>\n<p>On the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended&nbsp;the third quarter&nbsp;with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.</p>\n<p>I believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.</p>\n<p></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-10 13:17 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SE":"Sea Ltd"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1195107888","content_text":"Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that it is deeply unprofitable.\nBut this tech company is actually fairly complex, and to better understand its sprawling business, it's worth examining three finer points about it that garner a lot less attention: its dependence on Free Fire; its expansion plans in Latin America; and the growth of its fintech ecosystem.\n1.Free Fire is the wind in Sea's sails\nFour years ago, Garena launched Free Fire, its first self-developed mobile game. The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.\nFree Fire'ssuccess significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.Therefore, Sea clearly needs Free Fire to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.\nLooking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain Free Fire'smomentum, expand the franchise with new versions (likeFree Fire MAXfor higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.\n2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America\nWhen Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by MercadoLibre(NASDAQ:MELI), the 800-pound gorilla of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.\nAs a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.\nSea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.\nIn other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining Free Fire'sgrowth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.\n3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank\nShopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.\nSea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on Free Fire to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.\nA wobbly (but promising) business model\nThese three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.\nOn the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended the third quarter with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.\nI believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":605687810,"gmtCreate":1639152590554,"gmtModify":1639155879163,"author":{"id":"4092442821570860","authorId":"4092442821570860","name":"BigStonks101","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/097f77c70975dd8f61ed73c2b4a21342","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Yet the price keeps dropping. Doesnt make sense eh?","listText":"Yet the price keeps dropping. Doesnt make sense eh?","text":"Yet the price keeps dropping. Doesnt make sense eh?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/605687810","repostId":1195107888,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1195107888","pubTimestamp":1639113421,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1195107888?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-10 13:17","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1195107888","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-c","content":"<p>Most investors likely know three things about&nbsp;<b>Sea Limited</b>(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that it is deeply unprofitable.</p>\n<p>But this tech company is actually fairly complex, and to better understand its sprawling business, it's worth examining three finer points about it that garner a lot less attention: its dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire;</i>&nbsp;its expansion plans in Latin America; and the growth of its fintech ecosystem.</p>\n<p>1.<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;is the wind in Sea's sails</p>\n<p>Four years ago, Garena launched&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>, its first self-developed mobile game. The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.</p>\n<p><i>Free Fire's</i>success significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/62a40cb0cfc26f2711593eeadadb17b1\" tg-width=\"794\" tg-height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Therefore, Sea clearly needs&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.</p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>momentum, expand the franchise with new versions (like<i>Free Fire MAX</i>for higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.</p>\n<p>2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America</p>\n<p>When Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by&nbsp;<b>MercadoLibre</b>(NASDAQ:MELI), the&nbsp;800-pound gorilla&nbsp;of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.</p>\n<p>As a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.</p>\n<p>Sea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.</p>\n<p>In other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>growth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.</p>\n<p>3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank</p>\n<p>Shopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea&nbsp;Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.</p>\n<p>Sea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/40d393bcaa2441a53a52b8f0e431b310\" tg-width=\"791\" tg-height=\"241\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.</p>\n<p>A wobbly (but promising) business model</p>\n<p>These three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.</p>\n<p>On the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended&nbsp;the third quarter&nbsp;with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.</p>\n<p>I believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.</p>\n<p></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-10 13:17 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SE":"Sea Ltd"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1195107888","content_text":"Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that it is deeply unprofitable.\nBut this tech company is actually fairly complex, and to better understand its sprawling business, it's worth examining three finer points about it that garner a lot less attention: its dependence on Free Fire; its expansion plans in Latin America; and the growth of its fintech ecosystem.\n1.Free Fire is the wind in Sea's sails\nFour years ago, Garena launched Free Fire, its first self-developed mobile game. The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.\nFree Fire'ssuccess significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.Therefore, Sea clearly needs Free Fire to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.\nLooking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain Free Fire'smomentum, expand the franchise with new versions (likeFree Fire MAXfor higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.\n2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America\nWhen Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by MercadoLibre(NASDAQ:MELI), the 800-pound gorilla of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.\nAs a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.\nSea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.\nIn other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining Free Fire'sgrowth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.\n3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank\nShopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.\nSea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on Free Fire to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.\nA wobbly (but promising) business model\nThese three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.\nOn the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended the third quarter with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.\nI believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":605691092,"gmtCreate":1639149646550,"gmtModify":1639149646630,"author":{"id":"3574764104568500","authorId":"3574764104568500","name":"Atan29","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/72c3cc2330da24aecdc0b89697e19202","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"IT's interesting how when SE price was on the rise that every single article was about how amazing SE is and how it's gonna be a multibagger.Now that the stock price took a beating, you start seeing articles sounding caution on SE's business model.Literally 后知后觉.","listText":"IT's interesting how when SE price was on the rise that every single article was about how amazing SE is and how it's gonna be a multibagger.Now that the stock price took a beating, you start seeing articles sounding caution on SE's business model.Literally 后知后觉.","text":"IT's interesting how when SE price was on the rise that every single article was about how amazing SE is and how it's gonna be a multibagger.Now that the stock price took a beating, you start seeing articles sounding caution on SE's business model.Literally 后知后觉.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/605691092","repostId":1195107888,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1195107888","pubTimestamp":1639113421,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1195107888?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-12-10 13:17","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1195107888","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-c","content":"<p>Most investors likely know three things about&nbsp;<b>Sea Limited</b>(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that it is deeply unprofitable.</p>\n<p>But this tech company is actually fairly complex, and to better understand its sprawling business, it's worth examining three finer points about it that garner a lot less attention: its dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire;</i>&nbsp;its expansion plans in Latin America; and the growth of its fintech ecosystem.</p>\n<p>1.<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;is the wind in Sea's sails</p>\n<p>Four years ago, Garena launched&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>, its first self-developed mobile game. The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.</p>\n<p><i>Free Fire's</i>success significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/62a40cb0cfc26f2711593eeadadb17b1\" tg-width=\"794\" tg-height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Therefore, Sea clearly needs&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.</p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>momentum, expand the franchise with new versions (like<i>Free Fire MAX</i>for higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.</p>\n<p>2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America</p>\n<p>When Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by&nbsp;<b>MercadoLibre</b>(NASDAQ:MELI), the&nbsp;800-pound gorilla&nbsp;of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.</p>\n<p>As a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.</p>\n<p>Sea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.</p>\n<p>In other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining&nbsp;<i>Free Fire's</i>growth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.</p>\n<p>3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank</p>\n<p>Shopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea&nbsp;Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.</p>\n<p>Sea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/40d393bcaa2441a53a52b8f0e431b310\" tg-width=\"791\" tg-height=\"241\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\">Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on&nbsp;<i>Free Fire</i>&nbsp;to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.</p>\n<p>A wobbly (but promising) business model</p>\n<p>These three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.</p>\n<p>On the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended&nbsp;the third quarter&nbsp;with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.</p>\n<p>I believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.</p>\n<p></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Things About Sea Limited That Smart Investors Know\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-12-10 13:17 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SE":"Sea Ltd"},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/12/09/3-things-about-sea-limited-that-smart-investors-kn/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1195107888","content_text":"Most investors likely know three things about Sea Limited(NYSE:SE): that it owns Shopee, the top e-commerce player in Southeast Asia and Taiwan; that it owns the mobile game publisher Garena; and that it is deeply unprofitable.\nBut this tech company is actually fairly complex, and to better understand its sprawling business, it's worth examining three finer points about it that garner a lot less attention: its dependence on Free Fire; its expansion plans in Latin America; and the growth of its fintech ecosystem.\n1.Free Fire is the wind in Sea's sails\nFour years ago, Garena launched Free Fire, its first self-developed mobile game. The battle royale title, which was optimized for lower-end devices, quickly became one of the most popular mobile games in Southeast Asia and Latin America, and was the most-downloaded mobile game in the world in both 2019 and 2020, according to App Annie.\nFree Fire'ssuccess significantly boosted Garena's margins, since it wasn't a licensed game like the publisher's earlier titles. As a result, Sea's digital entertainment segment (which houses Garena) started to generate even stronger adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) growth -- a sharp contrast to the company's e-commerce segment, which has been growing more unprofitable.Therefore, Sea clearly needs Free Fire to keep generating that higher-margin revenue to subsidize the expansion of the Shopee e-commerce platform. That's a hefty burden to place on a 4-year-old mobile game.\nLooking ahead, Garena's top priorities will be to maintain Free Fire'smomentum, expand the franchise with new versions (likeFree Fire MAXfor higher-end devices), and launch more self-developed titles. Failing to achieve any of those goals could cause Sea's adjusted EBITDA to plummet.\n2. Shopee is gaining ground fast in Latin America\nWhen Shopee expanded into Brazil two years ago, skeptics predicted that it would be crushed by MercadoLibre(NASDAQ:MELI), the 800-pound gorilla of Latin American e-commerce. However, Shopee launched aggressive marketing campaigns, offered steep discounts, and expanded into other Latin American markets.\nAs a result, Shopee actually overtook MercadoLibre as the most-downloaded shopping app in Latin America earlier this year. By the end of August, Shopee's monthly active users (MAUs) in Latin America had risen 136% year over year to more than 30 million, according to Apptopia. MercadoLibre ended last quarter with 78.7 million unique active users.\nSea doesn't break out its Latin American results yet, but it's likely still racking up big losses as it expands through MercadoLibre's backyard. Last quarter, Sea said Shopee's adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.41 per order remained unchanged sequentially and year over year across all of its markets -- but narrowed by both metrics in its core Southeast Asia and Taiwan market.\nIn other words, Sea needs to continue narrowing Shopee's losses in Southeast Asia and Taiwan -- all while maintaining Free Fire'sgrowth -- to stabilize its adjusted EBITDA as it expands its massive ecosystem.\n3. Sea Limited is evolving into a digital bank\nShopee isn't Sea's only unprofitable business. Its digital financial services segment, which houses the Sea Money payments platform and other fintech units, is losing money too. This business was also granted a full digital banking license in Singapore last December.\nSea launched the digital financial services segment in the fourth quarter of 2019, and both the total payment volume and the number of quarterly paying users on its mobile wallet app have skyrocketed in the two years since. Unfortunately, its losses are also widening:Once again, this highlights Sea's overwhelming dependence on Free Fire to do the heavy lifting and support its other, unprofitable businesses.\nA wobbly (but promising) business model\nThese three points show us just how unusual Sea's business model is: It's an e-commerce and fintech giant that (for now) relies on the profits from a single mobile game to offset the staggering losses of its other high-growth businesses.\nOn the bright side, Sea also raised about $6 billion in fresh capital earlier this year with a big secondary stock and convertible debt offering -- and it ended the third quarter with $11.1 billion in cash and equivalents on the books. Therefore, Sea can afford to keep bleeding red ink for the foreseeable future.\nI believe Sea still has plenty of growth potential, but it will remain a very volatile stock. Potential investors should be well aware of these risks before betting that the stock will generate multibagger gains.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6934408,"gmtCreate":1639184098537,"gmtModify":1639184098645,"authorId":3576136694569207,"author":{"id":3576136694569207,"authorId":3576136694569207,"name":"IAS","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/933fbcc1d9c75b4ff82486f8a48a3e7c","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":605691092,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Market noise ","text":"Market noise ","html":"Market noise "}],"langContent":"CN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":92,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":3,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":false,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.22.5","shortVersion":"4.22.5","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"laohu8","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1195107888"}