Sea Ltd jumps as credit losses decline, company keeps 2024 outlook (SE)

Singapore e-commerce agency Sea Ltd. (NYSE:SE) rose 7% in premarket buying and selling on Tuesday after it reported a decline in credit score losses amid blended first-quarter outcomes.

Sea, which owns the favored Shopee platform, mentioned credit score losses for the interval ending March 31 got here in at $161.8M, down from the $177.4M within the year-ago quarter.

“SeaMoney has continued its sturdy progress momentum and profitability into 2024 whereas sustaining prudent threat administration,” Forrest Li, Sea’s Chairman and Chief Government Officer, mentioned in an announcement.

For the interval, Sea misplaced $0.04 per share as income rose 22.7% year-over-year to $3.73B. Analysts had anticipated the corporate to earn $0.03 per share on $3.62B in income.

Complete adjusted EBITDA for the interval got here in at $401.1M, down from $507.2M within the yr in the past interval.

E-commerce led the best way through the interval, as gross volumes surged 56.8% year-over-year to 2.6B. Gross merchandise quantity additionally jumped, up 36.3% year-over-year to $23.6B, whereas income attributed to e-commerce rose 32.9% year-over-year to $2.7B.

Income from digital monetary companies rose 21% year-over-year to $499.4M. The share of non-performing loans through the interval was 1.4%, the identical because the prior quarter.

Digital Leisure income was $458.1M through the interval, down from $539.7M year-over-year.

Wanting forward, Li mentioned Se has a “clear roadmap for worthwhile progress” and added that it’s “effectively on-track to ship our full-year steering.”

The corporate is holding a convention name to debate the outcomes.