If Sea Fell to $100, Would You Buy the Dips?
What happened
- Sea’s stock sank as much as 19% in New York on Monday, the steepest decline on record.
- India has banned 54 apps it says are of Chinese origin, including Sea Ltd.’s marquee game Free Fire, citing security concerns.
Since reaching an all-time high in November last year, Sea has gone downhill.
Sea has been focusing on building a gaming and e-commerce business globally with early backing from Tencent, the largest shareholder of the company.
Free Fire: the battle royale shooter often compared with PUBG, is among the world’s most popular mobile games with more than a billion downloads on Google Play. The title has underpinned the phenomenal growth of Singapore-based Sea, Southeast Asia’s most valuable company, and its expansion into markets from Brazil to India. In fact, Free Fire India might account for less than 10% of Sea’s gaming revenues.
Shopee: Investors worry that India could potentially also ban Shopee, the second pillar of Sea’s business, where it had about 300 employees and 20,000 local sellers as of December. On Monday, Li reassured shareholders at its annual general meeting that the company had a grip on the situation.
“Sea is a Singaporean company and we aim to partner in India’s digital economy mission,” the company said in a statement. “We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of our users in India and globally, we comply with Indian laws and regulations, and we do not transfer to or store any data of our Indian users in China.”
The most immediate question is whether Sea can appeal India’s decision and reverse it -- or if it fails, whether that ban will extend to its other businesses in the world’s fastest-growing internet economy.
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