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Sea Limited American Depositary Shares, each representing one Class A Ordinary Share is estimated to report earnings on05/13/2025. This may be our NEXT OPTION play -! It has been a tough year for many equities in the technology space, with many suffering steep losses year to date. However, e-commerce stockSea Limitedis near a fresh entry as it looks to add to bumper gains in 2025. The Singapore-based firm runs Shopee, the largest online retail company in Southeast Asia. Shopee operates in Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, and Brazil, among other places.
Sea Limited has other strings to its bow though, as it develops and publishes video games under its Garena banner and offers payments and financial services through its SeaMoney business. It actually started as a video game company before expanding into online retail. The stock is an all-around performer, with its IBD Composite Rating sitting at a best-possible 99. It is strong both fundamentally and technically. So far this year, the stock has rallied by more than 34%. In contrast,the S&P 500 is down nearly 4%. The company is also in the top 3% of issues in terms of price performance over the past 12 months. Sea Limited's earnings have been improving lately, swinging from losses to profits in the last two quarters. Analysts Rate E-Commerce Stock Wall Street analysts are currently bullish on the stock. It holds a consensus rating of strong buy with an average price target of 154.60,according to TipRanks. Wedbush Analyst Scott Devitt said the company is investing in key areas of differentiation "to maintain its leading market position" even as it expands its margins. Devitt said Sea Limited's investments to improve logistics capabilities are resulting in better service quality and a price advantage vs. rivals. Shopee reduced overall cost per order by $0.05 year over year in the fourth quarter, while nearly 50% of SPX Express orders were delivered within two days of order placement, Devitt wrote in a March 4 research note. SPX Express is Sea Limited's in-house logistics service. Devitt added that the platform continued to benefit from investments in its content ecosystem in the fourth quarter, which is driving "higher basket sizes and rising ad spend by sellers in certain markets." Devitt has an outperform rating and a 145 price target on the Sea Limited stock.
Sea Limited Stock Analysis The e-commerce stock hascformed a consolidationvwith an ideal buy pointof 147.73. The pattern has elements of a double-bottom, which offers a loweralternate entry of 137. This is a first-stage pattern, a bonus.Early-stage bases are more likely to net good gains for investors, according to IBD research. Sea Limited stock recently cleared the important50-day moving average. The relative strength line is moving higher, a further bullish sign. Institutions have been standing firm on Sea Limited holding stock in recent weeks, which is reflected in its Accumulation/Distribution Rating of C. However, the firm boasts five consecutive quarters of rising fund ownership. In total, 44% of shares are held by funds. Since Sea has run up for several days in a row in light volume it could be due for a breather.
Sea Limited(SE +4.14%)operates a hybrid consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer e-commerce platform called Shopee that is the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia. The company also has a thriving digital financial services business, as well as a digital entertainment studio that is responsible for one of the most popular mobile games in the world. The best part for investors now? Sea Limited is based in Singapore and more than 70% of its revenue comes from Asia -- it has very little exposure to North America. This suggests that the steep and sweeping U.S. tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed on nearly every nation last week will have minimal impacts (if any) on Sea Limited. Sea stock soared by 162% last year, but it's currently down 27% from its 52-week high amid the steep sell-off in the S&P 500. Since nothing has fundamentally changed for the company since hitting that 52-week high, this might be a great opportunity for investors to scoop up a tariff-proof stock at a discount.
Shopee and SeaMoney: A perfect match Shopee is the biggest e-commerce platform in each of the seven Asian markets in which it operates, and it's rapidly growing in Latin American markets like Brazil. Customers placed $100 billion worth of orders on the platform last year, which was the first time it crossed that milestone. Sea is laser-focused on improving efficiency in Shopee's supply chain and its wholly owned logistics network, SPX Express. In the final quarter of 2024, almost half of all orders shipped by SPX Express across Asia were delivered in two days or less.Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce company, has publicly noted that customers place orders more frequently when they know they will receive fast delivery, so prioritizing that is a prudent strategy. At the same time, Sea is also using its SeaMoney digital financial services platform to supercharge Shopee's growth. SeaMoney lends money to merchants on Shopee to help them expand, and it offers "buy now, pay later" loans to consumers. Those things drive more transactions on Shopee, Sea's largest source of revenue. SeaMoney had $5.1 billion in loans outstanding at the end of 2024, up 64% from the end of 2023. The platform also had a record 26 million active users, which was up 60%. It is now one of the largest consumer lending outfits in Southeast Asia, but it isn't resting on its laurels. Management plans to expand it further this year by focusing on loans outside of the Shopee ecosystem, which will open the door to millions of new potential customers. Are You Missing The Morning Scoop? Start your day ahead of the game with the market’s top stories and key investing insights.Breakfast Newsdelivers it all in a quick, Foolish, and free daily newsletter that lands in your inbox every market morning.. Enter Email Address: By submitting your email address, you consent to us keeping you informed about updates to our website and about other products and services that we think might interest you. Please read ourPrivacy StatementandTerms & Conditions. Finally, Sea's digital entertainment segment deserves a mention. It's led by the Garena development studio which has created a portfolio of highly successful games.Free Fireis one of them: It was the most downloaded mobile game in the world last year and averaged 100 million daily active users. Sea's digital entertainment segment had 618 million quarterly active users overall in the final three months of 2024, which was a 16.9% jump from the year-ago period. However, that metric remains below its peak of 729 million from the third quarter of 2021, when online activity was still being bolstered by pandemic-era social distancing restrictions.
Accelerating revenue growth, and soaring profits Sea generated a record $16.8 billion in revenue during 2024, which was a 29% year-over-year increase. That was its fastest growth rate since 2021, and it marked a sharp acceleration from the 5% growth the company achieved in 2023. Shopee was the star of the show, contributing $12.4 billion of Sea's total revenue, and growing at a rate of 38%. SeaMoney's revenue also soared by 34.6% to a record $2.4 billion. However, the digital entertainment unit's revenue declined by 13.6% to $1.9 billion, though it did generate modest growth in the fourth quarter, suggesting that a recovery might be underway. Sea could actually be growing its revenue much faster if it went back to the strategy it used prior to 2022, which involved spending aggressively on things like marketing and research and development. However, at this point, the management team, led by Sea founder and CEO Forrest Li, is prudently managing costs instead to build a more sustainable operation. During 2024, Sea's total operating expenses only increased by 16.7%. Since revenue grew much faster, more money flowed to the bottom line:Net income rose by an eye-popping 175% to $447.8 million. Sea stock just got much cheaper Sea's stock price peaked at $357 during the tech frenzy in 2021, only to plunge by as much as 90% over the following couple of years. Simply put, it couldn't maintain what was an unsustainable valuation. But the stock staged a comeback during 2024 with a gain of 162%. Based on the company's solid growth, I think its longer-term recovery will continue, and view its recent decline as a great buying opportunity. From a valuation perspective, Sea's price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is now just 3.9. That's a 58% discount to its average of 9.3 dating back to when the company went public in 2017. DATA BYYCHARTS.
Lizard King Short idea-->SP500 S&P 500 Index @5,695 Folks I am not making this move. My heart says this is the move but what of Japan finishes it's deal with the US over the weekend? Japan says they are very close and they don't lie the way we do. I feel all the heavies are posturing for a market up move here and I tend to like to fade that/ But once again I am chickening out. SP500 S&P 500 Index 5,695.67 +91.53(+1.63%)12:22 PM 05/02/25 S&P Complete Indices |Realtime