Don't Buy Sea Before Checking Its Fundamentals!

By Scott Lee • Monday, December 18 17:45 • Permanent Link

Shares of Staffing & Employment Services company Sea jumped 2.4% today. With many investors piling into SE without a second thought, it may be a good idea to take a closer look at the stock. Here are some quick facts to get you started:

Sea has moved -32.6% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 23.6%
SE has an average analyst rating of buy and is -36.75% away from its mean target price of $57.88 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.21
Sea has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 30.3 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $0.42 and its forward P/E ratio is 87.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.13 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Sea is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.96 and an average P/B of 4.24
The company has a free cash flow of $-222592000, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Sea Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the digital entertainment, e-commerce, and digital financial service businesses in Southeast Asia, Latin America, rest of Asia, and internationally. It offers Garena digital entertainment platform for users to access mobile and PC online games, as well as eSports operations. The company also operates Shopee e-commerce platform, a mobile-centric marketplace that provides integrated payment and logistics infrastructure and seller services. In addition, it offers SeaMoney digital financial services to individuals and businesses, including offline and online mobile wallet, and payment processing services, as well as other offerings across credit, insurtech, and digital bank services under the ShopeePay, SPayLater, SeaBank, SeaInsure, and other digital financial services brands; and payment processing services for Shopee. The company was formerly known as Garena Interactive Holding Limited and changed its name to Sea Limited in April 2017. Sea Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Singapore.

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