Sea

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Sea's Stock Plunge Adds to Forrest Li's $17 Billion Wealth Drop ... (Bloomberg)

Sea's Stock Plunge Adds to Forrest Li's $17 Billion Wealth Drop From Peak · The Singaporean company is bracing for slower online retail · Online retailers are ...

Sea Limited (SE) Q2 2022 Earnings Call Transcript (Motley Fool)

Good morning and good evening. Welcome to the Sea Limited second quarter 2022 results conference call. [Operator instructions] Please note this event is being ...

And in terms of our growth in Brazil on -- in terms of balancing growth and efficiency, I think the big picture is still doing the right thing at the right time at the right place. And on the payment front, for example, we continue to improve adoption of our e-wallet and also increase other online payment adoption over time, and that can also lower the payment cost and reduce the transaction friction. But on the whole, I think -- in terms of take rate, we do expect the take rate to graduate right and as we continue to deepen monetization through better services to our sellers and consumers and through growing the ecosystem as a whole. And that also part of the reason that combined with increasing transaction-based fees that we see continual increase in our high-margin revenue and the improvement on our margins overall for Shopee. And I think in the long run, we do -- our goal is to continue to diversify our portfolio and in terms of genres and mix of the esports and more casual type of games and across the more diverse market, so the direction is the same. From a financial perspective, we don't think there will be anything that will have an immediate meaningful significant impact like that on Free Fire in the immediate future because as a, Free Fire is a very long -- the largest mobile titles in the world and b, for any game that we launched initially, our focus is more going to be user engagement and building up the momentum and also the user base and solidify that before we focus more monetization. Do we expect to invest in driving the retention and engagement of Free Fire users, would continue in transitioning to 2023? And what is the target now is going to be increasingly efficiency improvements and long-term health and strength and profitability of the platform. Regarding the guidance, we just want to clarify, this is a proactive decision from the management to continue to shift our strategies and we want to be very upfront and open to the market about it. So in that case, we have ample resources as well as a very strong position to manage the shift in our strategy and position us really well for the long run. We also continue to be highly optimistic about the long-term potential of the opportunities and the markets we are addressing. We believe the right thing to do at this unprecedented time is to focus even more on self-sufficiency, long-term profitability, and the defensibility in our business operations.

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Singapore's Sea to deepen cost cuts after nearly $1bn Q2 loss (Nikkei Asia)

SINGAPORE -- Singapore-based tech group Sea will "rapidly" prioritize profitability after more than doubling its quarterly loss, shifting its stance o.

Sea Limited Reports Second Quarter 2022 Results (Business Wire)

Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) (“Sea” or the “Company”) today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. “Our solid results f.

Amounts are expressed in thousands of US dollars (“$”). Amounts are expressed in thousands of US dollars (“$”) except for number of shares & per share data. We believe that the total adjusted EBITDA helps to identify underlying trends in our operating results, enhancing their understanding of the past performance and future prospects. We believe that the segment adjusted EBITDA helps to identify underlying trends in our operating results, enhancing their understanding of the past performance and future prospects. We had a net income tax expense of US$64.8 million and US$75.2 million in the second quarter of 2022 and 2021, respectively. Other operating income mainly consists of rebates from e-commerce related logistics services providers. These expenses are excluded from segment results as they are not reviewed by the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) as part of segment performance. - Digital Entertainment: GAAP revenue was US$0.9 billion compared to US$1.0 billion in the second quarter of 2021. This operating metric is used as an approximation of cash spent by our users in the applicable period that is attributable to our digital entertainment segment. GAAP revenue and GAAP marketplace revenue as % of total gross merchandise value (“GMV”) increased from 7.7% and 6.1% a year ago to 9.2% and 7.7%, respectively. Adjusted EBITDA loss per order improved by 21% to reach US$0.33 in the second quarter of 2022, compared to US$0.41 for the same period in 2021. Total net loss excluding share-based compensation and impairment of goodwill1 was US$(569.8) million compared to US$(321.2) million for the second quarter of 2021.

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Sea posts $1.28b net loss in Q2, withdraws 2022 e-commerce forecast (The Straits Times)

It joins other online giants struggling to gauge an uncertain global economic outlook. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Revenue from gaming arm Garena fell to US$900.3 million, slightly ahead of estimates for US$827.6 million, as hit mobile game Free Fire matures. Chief executive Forrest Li affirmed a target for the business to hit positive adjusted Ebitda before headquarters costs in Asia this year. Some investors are reducing their exposure to Sea. Its shares have fallen about 75 per cent since peaking in October. Shoppers emerging from pandemic lockdowns are cutting back on online purchases, shifting towards essentials during a potential recession. [Sea cut its full-year e-commerce revenue outlook in May,](https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/sea-quarterly-loss-widens-after-consumers-cool-online-spending) to a low of US$8.5 billion versus US$8.9 billion previously.

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Sea Group Q2 net loss rises 77% (Tech in Asia)

The Singapore-based internet giant recorded US$2.9 billion in total GAAP revenue, up 29% from a year ago.

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Singapore's Sea Tumbles 14% After Wider Than Expected Loss (Yahoo Finance)

(Bloomberg) -- Sea Ltd. posted a bigger loss than expected and withdrew its 2022 e-commerce forecast, joining other online giants struggling to gauge an ...

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[Updated] Sea Group's losses widen in Q2 even as revenues grow ... (DealStreetAsia)

New York-listed Sea Ltd. has posted a net loss of $931 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, more than doubling from $433.7 million a year ago.

Adjusted EBITDA losses for the business improved to $111.5 million, from $155 million a year ago. Total payment volumes for the mobile wallet hit $5.7 billion in April-June 2022, or 36% up from the year before. Ses Ltd said it is suspending e-commerce GAAP revenue guidance for the 2022 financial year. Even so, he said the group will be tightly managing operating expenses such as marketing and logistics costs while also increasing monetisation across its income streams, with a focus on high-income streams. Adjusted losses before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for Shopee was $648 million, compared with losses of $580 million in the same period last year. Li said Sea Group will be suspending its e-commerce guidance for 2022.

Sea Limited Reports Second Quarter 2022 Results (Yahoo Finance)

SINGAPORE, August 16, 2022--Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) ("Sea" or the "Company") today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, ...

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Tug to bring integrated and bespoke digital marketing solutions to ... (Singapore Business Review)

Taking on an integrated approach, digital marketing expert, Tug, vowed to give its clients in Southeast Asia (SEA) not only just clicks and impressions.

Soo, for her part, said she would add “fun” to Tug’s motto, saying that a team produces its greatest work when they are happy. That allowed the company during the pandemic to be much more efficient with their budgets that were tighter, and help target audiences better,” Beck said. “We also set up messaging depending on changes to COVID lockdown laws. Following the opening of its SEA hub in Singapore in July, Beck said Tug will also open another office in New York in September to cater to clients in North America. Apart from an integrated approach, Tug also takes pride in its bespoke solutions which the agency also aims to bring to its clients in the Southeast Asian region. An example of an innovation Tug has pulled together for a client was called “Search Uncut.” The tool was specifically made for London’s Zipcar to help the car-sharing company analyse their top 30 keywords – from their natural and paid searches – in just one dashboard.

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Singapore's Sea tumbles 14% after wider-than-expected loss (The Edge Markets MY)

Sea Ltd posted a bigger-than-expected loss, and withdrew its 2022 e-commerce forecast, joining other online giants struggling to gauge an increasingly ...

Altimeter Capital Management LP, a shareholder of Singapore-based Grab Holdings Ltd, exited Sea’s Class A ADRs, according to an analysis of its filings by Bloomberg News. Tiger Global Management LLC sold US$473.8 million of Sea shares, cutting its holdings after six quarters of buying, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings. - Revenue from gaming arm Garena fell to US$900.3 million, slightly ahead of estimates of US$827.6 million, as hit mobile game Free Fire matures. Chief executive officer Li affirmed a target for the business to hit positive adjusted Ebitda before headquarters costs in Asia this year. Its net loss more than doubled to over US$931 million. It’s been a steep downfall for one of Singapore’s most prominent tycoons, whose fortune has tanked almost US$17 billion from its highs.

Sea secrets surface in the Great Australian Bight: New twist in ... (Science Daily)

Oceanographers have discovered more about why the eastern Great Australian Bight supports a year-round abundance of marine predators, including different ...

"This study demonstrates how little we actually know about the functioning of marine ecosystems, and how important real field observations are,'' adds Associate Professor Kaempf, who is president of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), Adelaide Division. "To understand this, we explored year-to-year variations of phytoplankton layers in the region using satellite data in conjunction with water-column data from the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)." For the first time, experts from Flinders University and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) have described substantial subsurface phytoplankton layers deep beneath the eastern part of the Bight -- which serves to support the rich marine biodiversity even when the surface phytoplankton blooms disappear at certain times of the upwelling season.

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Stock Market Today Live: Dow Closes 170 Points Down Amid Fed ... (The Wall Street Journal)

Shares in Southeast Asian internet company Sea Ltd. are selling off again, after a raft of bad news this week. The e-commerce, videogaming and ...

At Tuesday’s close it had a market cap of $43 billion, down from a peak of more than $200 billion last fall.\n\nSea reported a $931 million quarterly net loss Tuesday, widening from $434 million a year earlier, and said it wouldn’t give guidance for e-commerce revenues for the rest of this year. are selling off again, after a raft of bad news this week.\n\nThe e-commerce, videogaming and digital-finance company’s American depositary receipts are down more than 9%, building on a 14% drop in the previous session. Investors are also concerned that investor Tencent, which sold about $3 billion of Sea stock in January, could offload more, as it looks to sell out of another investee company, Meituan.\n\nWhile a Tencent selldown is a risk, Sea is a crucial partner for Tencent in distributing games internationally, said Samuel Tan, an analyst at Maybank.

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Why Sea Limited Stock Sank 6% Today (Motley Fool)

With profitability still years away, Sea Limited's ceasing of sales guidance will weigh on the stock.

For these investors, the announcement that Sea is eschewing sales guidance is probably going to come as a disappointment. That's not necessarily a bad thing, however; in fact, Sea did beat analyst expectations for earnings in Q2, reporting a loss of $1.03 per share instead of the $1.19 per-share loss that Wall Street had anticipated. According to the consensus of analysts polled by The good news is that Daiwa's was the only downgrade Sea suffered today, and while BofA and Citi -- and Stifel as well -- did cut their price targets, according to ratings news reporter TheFly, each of these latter three investment banks still maintains a "buy" rating on Sea stock. And longer term, in this banker's view, Sea remains "well placed to dominate" e-commerce in Southeast Asia. Adding insult to injury, Daiwa Securities cut its price target by $30, to $80, and also

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Brokers' take: CGS-CIMB downgrades Sea to 'hold' on dimmer ... (The Business Times)

CGS-CIMB believes Shopee's gross merchandise value (GMV) could remain weak in the near term after its parent company Sea suspended FY2022 revenue guidance ...

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Sea suspends 2022 eCommerce forecast as group records SG$1.28 ... (Marketing Interactive)

Sea Group has recorded a total net loss of SG$1.28 billion in the second quarter of the financial year, more than two times than that of second quarter of ...

Its self-developed global game, Free Fire, maintained top global rankings in user and grossing metrics and was the most downloaded mobile game globally in the second quarter of 2022. It increased its sales and marketing spend on the digital entertainment front the most, by 6.2%, followed by eCommerce by 3.2%. Its Adjusted EBITDA loss per order improved by 21% to reach SG$0.46 in the second quarter of 2022, compared to SG$0.57 for the same period in 2021. On the digital financial service front, its quarterly active users across SeaMoney products and services recorded a 53.3% year-on-year increase, said the company. Shopee is also leading the shopping category in Brazil by average monthly active users, while maintaining its top ranking by total time spent in app. However, its adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) has increased to SG$895.8 million compared to SG$801.4 million for the second quarter of 2021.

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Beijing's Upper Hand in the South China Sea: Why Time Is Running ... (Foreign Affairs)

China's artificial island building and its expansion of military capabilities in the area, combined with a massive naval and air force modernization program, ...

The United States is still the preferred security partner for most of the region. The United States needs a small but capable force of air and missile assets in the Philippines, close enough to put Chinese surface ships at risk and to respond to small provocations before they escalate. The South China Sea isn’t lost to the United States and its partners yet. And any such agreement between China and the other South China Sea claimants must be reached without force or coercion. That means China must recognize all the freedoms of the And China, confident in the United States’ inexorable decline, would challenge other rules and institutions, especially in [Asia](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/regions/asia). [Russia](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/regions/russian-federation) and [Iran](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/regions/iran) but would eventually spread as rule-abiding states saw themselves disadvantaged by the excessive claims of their neighbors. The truth is that the United States would likely have little choice but to cede the South China Sea in the opening stages of any conflict with China. ability to project power in the South China Sea would steadily decline as China’s grew. Most other claimants to the South China Sea would eventually hold their noses and take whatever deal Beijing puts on the table. Since the 1980s, the People’s Liberation Army Navy has sought to be the dominant power in the South China Sea. But China isn’t looking for a fight with the U.S.

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