Quick Update for Sea (SE) Investors

By Ken Smith • Monday, September 23 15:08 • Permanent Link

With gains of 5.7%, Sea was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $90.62 and have logged a 0.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

Sea has moved 113.2% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 31.5%
SE has an average analyst rating of buy and is 2.04% away from its mean target price of $88.81 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-0.36
Sea has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -251.7 while the S&P 500 average is 28.21
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.0 and its forward P/E ratio is 45.3
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 7.53 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.71
Sea is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.15 and an average P/B of 3.11
SE has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -74.1% and gross profit margins of 0.4%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.57 Billion, 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 promotes eSports operations. The company also operates Shopee e-commerce platform, a mobile-centric marketplace that provides integrated payments, logistics infrastructure, and seller services. In addition, it offers SeaMoney digital financial services comprising consumer, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) credit, mobile wallets, payment processing, and banking services under the ShopeePay and SPayLater brands; and acts as an underwriter for various life and non-life insurance products under the SeaInsure brand name, as well as insurance agency services. 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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