Singapore's Sea tops quarterly revenue estimates as Shopee fuels e-commerce growth
Singapore's Sea tops quarterly revenue estimates as Shopee fuels e-commerce growth Aug 11 (Reuters) - Singapore's Sea Ltd SE.N beat estimates for quarterly revenue on Tuesday, powered by growth at its e-commerce business led by Shopee and rising demand for its financial services.
U.S.-listed shares of the company were up 7.6% in premarket trading.
Shopee has grown into Southeast Asia's leading e-commerce platform through a combination of aggressive discounting, gamified shopping features and a broad logistics network.
The company has also increasingly integrated AI into product recommendations, seller tools and customer service operations.
Sea reported revenue of $7.79 billion in the quarter ended June 30, above analysts' average estimate of $7.06 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.
The e-commerce unit, its largest segment, saw quarterly revenue jump 48.9% from a year earlier to $4.93 billion.
Sea's digital financial products arm reported a 58.9% rise in revenue to $1.40 billion. The segment includes the Monee app, which offers services including payment processing, digital wallets and credit.
Shopee's gross merchandise value, a metric measuring the total amount of sales on e-commerce platforms, rose 28.4% from a year earlier to $38.3 billion in the quarter.
(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Jonathan Ananda)
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