Sea Limited Three-Engine Flywheel: Why Monee's 62% Loan Growth and Shopee's $1B EBITDA Target Point to 56% Upside in 2026

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Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) has quietly become one of the most complete compounding stories in emerging-market technology — and its second-quarter 2026 report made that case impossible to ignore. On August 11, 2026, the company reported revenue of $7.8 billion, up 48% year-on-year, with all three of its operating engines — Shopee e-commerce, Monee digital finance, and Garena gaming — delivering double-digit growth and positive adjusted EBITDA in the same quarter for the first time at this scale. Net income reached $487.7 million, and management reaffirmed guidance for roughly 25% full-year GMV growth alongside a target of about $1 billion in Shopee adjusted EBITDA for 2026.

At a current price of $100.92, Sea trades well below its 52-week high of $195.48 and roughly 36% under the analyst consensus 12-month target of $157.97 — an implied upside of about 56%. Yet the stock is not a beaten-down turnaround; it is a business firing on all cylinders that the market has repriced on macro and currency concerns. That gap between operational momentum and share-price discount is exactly where asymmetric setups live.

This article makes three core investment points. First, Sea’s three-engine flywheel — a Southeast Asian and Latin American consumer captured inside Shopee, monetized again through Monee’s lending, and cross-subsidized by Garena’s high-margin cash flow — is a structurally rare architecture that few global peers can replicate. Second, the profitability inflection is real and durable: Sea has moved from a $1.65 billion net loss in 2022 to $1.64 billion of trailing-twelve-month net income, and the operating leverage is only beginning. Third, the current valuation of about 21 times forward earnings embeds enough pessimism about second-half currency headwinds that a simple normalization of sentiment supports meaningful re-rating — before any upside from Monee’s loan-book scaling or the Brazil/Mexico expansion.

Below, we work through Sea’s business model and segment economics, size the three end-markets it competes in, dissect its widening economic moat, stress-test the financials, build a valuation with explicit bull/base/bear scenarios, lay out the key risks — currency, credit, and competition — and finish with a concrete rating and exit plan. The thesis is not that Sea is cheap on a screen; it is that a genuinely profitable, self-funding, three-pillar consumer platform is being priced as though its growth is about to stall, when the evidence points the other way.

1. Company Overview

Sea Limited is a consumer internet company operating primarily across Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan) and, increasingly, Latin America (Brazil and Mexico). It generates revenue through three distinct but interconnected businesses.

Shopee (E-commerce) is the group’s largest engine. It runs an online marketplace that earns money in three ways: transaction and commission fees on third-party seller sales, advertising revenue from sellers bidding for visibility, and value-added services such as logistics and payment processing. In Q2 2026, Shopee generated $5.6 billion of GAAP revenue — $4.9 billion from marketplace revenue (commissions, ads, fulfillment), up 49% year-on-year, plus roughly $0.7 billion of product revenue. Gross merchandise value (GMV) reached $38.3 billion, up 28% year-on-year, on 4.2 billion gross orders (+27%).

Monee (Digital Financial Services, formerly SeaMoney) is the fastest-scaling engine. It offers consumer and SME credit, mobile wallets, and payment services, monetized primarily through net interest income and fees on its loan book. Q2 2026 revenue was $1.4 billion, up 59% year-on-year, with a consumer-and-SME loan book of $11.1 billion in principal outstanding, up 62% year-on-year. Critically, credit quality held firm, with the 90-day non-performing loan (NPL) ratio at 1.0%.

Garena (Digital Entertainment / Gaming) is the cash engine. It develops and publishes online games — anchored by the global hit Free Fire, which sustains over 100 million average daily active users — and monetizes through in-game purchases (bookings). Q2 2026 bookings were $763.5 million, up 15.5% year-on-year, with adjusted EBITDA of $429.8 million (+16.7%), making Garena the highest-margin contributor to group profit.

Segment revenue breakdown (Q2 2026):

Segment	GAAP Revenue	Adjusted EBITDA	Key Operating Metric
Shopee (E-commerce)	$5.6B	$255M	GMV $38.3B (+28% YoY); ad revenue +70%
Monee (Digital Finance)	$1.4B	$288M	Loan book $11.1B (+62% YoY); NPL 1.0%
Garena (Gaming)	~$0.6–0.8B	$429.8M	Bookings $763.5M (+15.5%); Free Fire 100M+ DAU
Group total	$7.8B	$917.2M	Net income $487.7M; diluted EPS $0.70

Sea’s market position is that of the leading e-commerce operator across most of Southeast Asia by GMV, with Garena a top-tier mobile game publisher globally by user base and Monee among the largest digital lenders in its core markets. On governance, Sea is founder-led — co-founder Forrest Li serves as chairman and group CEO — with meaningful insider alignment, and a shareholder base dominated by large global institutional investors typical of a mega-cap ADR. This founder-operator structure has repeatedly shown a willingness to trade near-term growth for profitability discipline (as it did in the 2022–2023 restructuring) and back again when the market rewards expansion — an adaptability that matters for a company straddling three volatile industries.

2. Industry Analysis

Sea sits at the intersection of three of the largest secular growth markets in the emerging-market consumer economy: Southeast Asian (and Latin American) e-commerce, digital financial services, and mobile gaming. Understanding the size, structure, and stage of each is essential to sizing the opportunity — and this is the section where the bull case is won or lost.

2-1. Market Size & Growth Trajectory

E-commerce. Southeast Asia’s digital economy is one of the youngest and fastest-growing in the world. Industry estimates consistently place regional e-commerce GMV on a trajectory toward roughly $230–370 billion by 2030, growing at a mid-teens to low-20s percent CAGR from a 2024–2025 base of roughly $150 billion. The region combines a young, mobile-first population of over 600 million people, rising smartphone penetration, and — critically — still-low e-commerce penetration relative to mature markets like China or Korea. When you overlay Sea’s Latin American expansion (Brazil and Mexico), the addressable market widens materially: Brazil alone is a $200 billion-plus retail e-commerce opportunity by the end of the decade. Sea’s own annualized run-rate GMV now exceeds $150 billion, which means it is capturing a leading share of the Southeast Asian pie while still holding a small slice of the much larger cross-regional total. The industry sits firmly in the acceleration phase — past the early land-grab of subsidized growth, but nowhere near the maturation seen in Western markets where penetration exceeds 25%.

Digital financial services. The fintech opportunity is arguably larger than e-commerce because it starts from a lower base. Hundreds of millions of consumers across Southeast Asia remain underbanked or unbanked, without access to formal credit, yet increasingly hold a smartphone and a digital wallet. Consumer digital lending, payments, and wealth management across the region represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar revenue pool over the next decade, expanding at a CAGR well above 20% as credit access deepens. Monee’s $11.1 billion loan book, up 62% year-on-year, is scaling into that white space — and unlike a standalone fintech, it does so with a captive, data-rich customer base already inside Shopee. This is early-stage growth: the loan book is compounding faster than 60% annually with NPLs at 1.0%, a combination that only exists when demand vastly outstrips the supply of formal credit.

Mobile gaming. The global mobile gaming market is more mature — a roughly $100 billion-plus annual market growing at a high-single-digit percent CAGR — but it remains a powerful, high-margin cash generator. Free Fire’s resilience, with 100 million-plus daily active users and bookings re-accelerating to +15.5% year-on-year, demonstrates that a well-managed live-service franchise can defy the “gaming is cyclical” narrative. Garena’s role in the flywheel is less about being the primary growth driver and more about funding the other two engines with high-margin cash — a structural advantage discussed below.

2-2. Structural Growth Drivers

Driver 1 — Rising e-commerce penetration and ad monetization. Southeast Asian e-commerce penetration remains well below developed-market levels, giving Shopee a long runway simply from the secular shift of retail spend online. But the more important near-term driver is monetization density: Shopee’s advertising revenue grew more than 70% year-on-year in Q2 2026, far outpacing the 28% GMV growth. As sellers compete for placement on a platform with 4.2 billion quarterly orders, the take rate on each transaction rises without Sea having to grow units as fast. Advertising is a high-margin revenue stream layered on top of an already-scaled logistics and marketplace base — meaning revenue can grow faster than GMV, and profit faster than revenue. This is the single most important short-term dynamic in the model, because it converts top-line scale into operating leverage. Over the long term, the same platform that today sells physical goods becomes the distribution layer for financial products, groceries, food delivery, and services — each an incremental monetization vector on the same user base.

Driver 2 — The fintech attach rate. Monee’s growth is not a standalone lending story; it is a cross-sell story. Every active Shopee buyer is a potential BuyNow-PayLater user, borrower, or wallet holder, and Sea possesses the transaction data to underwrite them far more cheaply than a traditional bank that must acquire customers from scratch. Monee added 5.3 million new first-time borrowers in a single quarter while holding its 90-day NPL at 1.0%, which is the empirical proof that the data advantage translates into low-cost, low-risk customer acquisition. As the loan book compounds at 60%-plus and the digital-finance revenue mix rises (already $1.4 billion per quarter and growing 59% year-on-year), net interest income becomes an increasingly large, high-margin share of the group. In the short term this drives revenue growth well above e-commerce alone; in the long term, financial services typically carry structurally higher margins and returns on capital than retail, which should lift group-level profitability for years.

Driver 3 — Geographic and product expansion optionality. Sea’s playbook — build a dominant e-commerce position, then layer fintech and services on top — is now being replayed in Brazil and Mexico, two markets several times the size of any single Southeast Asian country. This is embedded optionality that the current valuation largely ignores: if Shopee replicates even a fraction of its Southeast Asian success in Latin America, the addressable GMV and loan-book pools multiply. Layered on top is product expansion within existing markets — new IP-based games at Garena, wealth-management and insurance products at Monee, and grocery and food-adjacent commerce at Shopee. Each of these is a long-duration driver that extends the growth runway well beyond the current decade, and none of them requires Sea to enter an unfamiliar business — they are all extensions of the same consumer relationship.

2-3. Competitive Landscape

Sea competes against different rivals in each vertical, which is itself a source of resilience — no single competitor attacks all three engines at once.

Company	Primary Overlap	TTM Revenue (approx.)	Profitability	Key Moat
Sea Limited (SE)	E-comm + Fintech + Gaming	~$27.7B	Profitable (net income $1.6B)	Three-engine flywheel, regional scale
MercadoLibre (MELI)	E-comm + Fintech (LATAM)	~$26B+	Profitable	LATAM logistics + Mercado Pago
TikTok Shop (private)	E-comm (SEA)	n/a	Investing/loss-making	Social-commerce distribution, ByteDance capital
Grab (GRAB)	Fintech + delivery (SEA)	~$3B+	Near-breakeven	Ride-hailing + super-app
Alibaba/Lazada	E-comm (SEA)	segment of larger group	Mixed	Alibaba capital + cloud

Sea’s structural advantage over each is specific. Against TikTok Shop, the most aggressive new entrant in Southeast Asian e-commerce, Sea competes with an integrated logistics network and a profitable model, whereas TikTok Shop is buying share with subsidies — a dynamic that pressures near-term take rates but is difficult to sustain indefinitely without a path to profit. Against MercadoLibre in Latin America, Sea is the challenger, not the incumbent, so LATAM is optionality rather than a core assumption. Against Grab and Lazada, Sea is the clear e-commerce leader in most Southeast Asian markets by GMV, with the added advantage that its gaming cash flow funds fintech expansion without diluting shareholders or piling on debt. The decisive point is that Sea is the only one of these players that owns all three engines — commerce, credit, and gaming — and can therefore reinvest high-margin gaming and fintech profits into defending and extending its commerce moat. That cross-subsidization is a weapon none of its single-vertical competitors possess.

3. Economic Moat Analysis

Sea’s competitive advantage rests on two reinforcing moats — network effects across a super-app ecosystem, and a data-driven cost advantage in fintech underwriting — bound together by the cross-subsidizing three-engine structure.

Moat Type 1: Network Effects and Ecosystem Lock-In

Shopee is a two-sided marketplace, and marketplaces exhibit classic network effects: more buyers attract more sellers, which widens selection and lowers prices, which attracts still more buyers. Sea’s Q2 2026 data shows this flywheel spinning — new active buyers up more than 35% year-on-year, gross orders up 27%, and eight consecutive quarters of sequential GMV growth. But Sea’s network effect is deeper than a standalone marketplace because it is embedded in an ecosystem. A consumer who shops on Shopee pays with a Monee wallet, borrows through Monee credit, and may play Garena games with the same account and identity. Each additional service raises switching costs: leaving Shopee means leaving your payment history, your credit line, and your accumulated wallet balance. This ecosystem lock-in is why Shopee’s advertising revenue can grow 70% year-on-year — sellers cannot reach these buyers efficiently anywhere else, so they pay rising rates for access. The evidence of pricing power is precisely that ads and marketplace revenue are growing roughly twice as fast as GMV.

Moat Type 2: Data-Driven Cost Advantage in Underwriting

Monee’s moat is a cost advantage rooted in proprietary data. A traditional lender expanding into Southeast Asia must acquire customers expensively and underwrite them with thin credit files. Monee inherits both the customer and the data for free from Shopee: it already knows a user’s purchase frequency, order value, repayment behavior on prior BuyNow-PayLater transactions, and delivery-address stability. This lets it underwrite tens of millions of thin-file borrowers at a fraction of the acquisition and risk cost a standalone fintech would bear. The proof is in the numbers: Monee added 5.3 million first-time borrowers in one quarter while keeping its 90-day NPL at just 1.0% and growing its loan book 62% year-on-year. Scaling a loan book that fast and holding credit losses that low is nearly impossible without a structural information advantage. As the book compounds, this cost-of-acquisition and cost-of-risk edge translates directly into higher net interest margins than competitors can earn on comparable borrowers.

Moat Durability Assessment

Will these moats hold for five to ten years? The network-effects moat is durable so long as Shopee retains its GMV leadership, and the primary threat is TikTok Shop’s subsidy-fueled share grab. The counterargument is that social commerce and marketplace commerce are partly complementary, and that Sea’s integrated, profitable logistics network is a structural cost advantage that a subsidy war cannot permanently erase — subsidies are a flow, logistics scale is a stock. The underwriting moat is more durable still, because it compounds: every additional loan and repayment enriches the dataset, widening the gap versus new entrants. The genuine risk to the fintech moat is not competition but credit-cycle risk — a regional downturn could spike NPLs above the benign 1.0% level and reveal that fast loan growth was masking latent losses. This is the moat’s real vulnerability, and it is why the loan book must be monitored every quarter. On balance, both moats appear intact and widening, with the fintech data advantage the more defensible of the two and the commerce network the more contested.

4. Financial Analysis

Sea’s financial transformation over the past four years is the quantitative backbone of the thesis. The company has gone from cash-burning hyper-growth to self-funding profitable growth without sacrificing its top-line trajectory.

Revenue and profitability (fiscal years, GAAP, USD millions):

Metric	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024	FY2025	TTM
Revenue	$12,450	$13,064	$16,820	$19,630	$27,723
Gross Profit	$5,185	$5,834	$7,205	$10,244	$12,293
Operating Income	-$1,133	$343	$662	$1,985	$2,284
Net Income	-$1,651	$151	$444	$1,578	$1,638

The story each year tells is coherent. 2022 was the trough — a $1.65 billion net loss as Sea over-expanded during the pandemic-era boom and then had to retrench. 2023 was the discipline year: management slashed costs, exited unprofitable markets, and dragged the business to its first full-year operating profit ($343 million) on nearly flat revenue — proof that the model could be made to pay. 2024 re-accelerated growth (+29% revenue) while holding profitability. 2025 was the breakout: revenue grew ~17% to $19.6 billion (per the 10-K) and operating income tripled to nearly $2 billion, demonstrating that Sea could grow and expand margins simultaneously. The trailing-twelve-month figures extend the trend, with revenue of $27.7 billion and net income of $1.64 billion. Gross margin has held steady in the mid-40s (44.3% on a TTM basis), while operating margin has climbed to 7.9% — still low in absolute terms, which is the point: there is substantial room for margin expansion as the high-margin advertising and fintech mix rises.

Key operating metrics underscore the momentum: Shopee GMV of $38.3 billion in a single quarter (+28% YoY), a Monee loan book of $11.1 billion (+62% YoY) at a 1.0% NPL, and Garena bookings of $763.5 million (+15.5% YoY). Group adjusted EBITDA reached $917.2 million in Q2 2026, and trailing ROE stands at 14.5% with ROA of 5.7% — respectable returns for a company still reinvesting heavily.

Balance sheet and cash flow. Sea’s balance sheet is a fortress relative to its growth profile. As of the most recent reporting, the company held roughly $9.1 billion in cash and investments against approximately $4.1 billion of total debt — a net cash position of about $5 billion, or nearly one-tenth of the market capitalization, sitting on the balance sheet as dry powder. Debt-to-equity is a conservative 0.32. This net-cash position is strategically important: it lets Sea fund Monee’s rapidly growing loan book and its Latin American expansion internally, without diluting shareholders or leaning on external credit markets during a period of tighter global liquidity. A profitable, self-funding growth company with net cash is a fundamentally different risk profile than the cash-burning Sea of 2022.

There is no “path to profitability” question here anymore; that box is checked. The relevant question is the margin-expansion story — and with operating margin at just 7.9% while the highest-margin revenue lines (ads at +70%, fintech at +59%) grow fastest, the trajectory of profitability should continue to steepen even if revenue growth moderates toward the guided 25% GMV pace.

5. Valuation

At $100.92, Sea carries a market capitalization of about $57.2 billion on roughly 567 million shares outstanding. On trailing earnings the stock looks expensive — a P/E of 38.2 on TTM EPS of $2.64 (self-check: $100.92 ÷ $2.64 = 38.2 ✓). But trailing multiples are the wrong lens for a business compounding earnings this fast; the forward view is what matters.

Forward P/E (primary method). Consensus EPS for next year is $4.75, putting the stock at a forward P/E of 21.3 (self-check: $100.92 ÷ $4.75 = 21.2 ✓). For a company growing revenue ~48% year-on-year, guiding to 25% GMV growth, and expanding margins, a forward multiple of 21x is undemanding on a growth-adjusted basis — a PEG well below 1.0 if EPS grows anywhere near the pace of the last two years. Applying a range of forward multiples to the $4.75 consensus EPS yields a scenario framework:

– Base case: $4.75 × 30x forward = $142.50 (~41% upside). A 30x multiple is reasonable for a 25%+ grower with expanding margins and a fintech mix shift; it is below where Sea has traded during prior optimism cycles.
– Bull case: $4.75 × 40x forward = $190.00 (~88% upside). This requires the LATAM expansion to gain traction, Monee to keep compounding at 50%-plus with stable credit, and FX headwinds to fade — a re-rating back toward the 52-week high of $195.
– Bear case: $4.75 × 20x forward = $95.00 (~6% downside). This assumes forward EPS is pressured by second-half FX translation losses and take-rate compression from TikTok Shop competition, and the multiple de-rates toward a market multiple.

EV/Sales cross-check. On an enterprise-value basis (market cap $57.2B less ~$5B net cash ≈ $52B EV) against TTM revenue of $27.7 billion, Sea trades at roughly 1.9x EV/Sales — a modest multiple for a business growing revenue near 48% with 44% gross margins and improving operating leverage. Peer MercadoLibre, a comparable e-commerce-plus-fintech compounder, has historically commanded a higher sales multiple, suggesting Sea is not richly valued relative to the closest structural comparable.

Reconciliation with consensus. The analyst consensus 12-month target is $157.97, implying ~56% upside and sitting between our base ($142.50) and bull ($190.00) cases. Across roughly 29 covering analysts, the average target clusters around $157, with bull targets stretching toward $200 on sustained SeaMoney and LATAM momentum. We are broadly aligned with the consensus but slightly more conservative at the base case, reflecting genuine second-half FX risk. Our weighted view — placing meaningful probability on the base case, upside on the bull, and a floor near the bear — supports a fair value in the $145–$160 range, consistent with a Buy rating and a favorable risk/reward skew given the roughly 2:1 ratio of upside-to-downside from current levels.

6. Risk Factors

Risk 1 — Foreign-exchange headwinds (the near-term swing factor). Sea reports in U.S. dollars but earns the vast majority of its revenue in Southeast Asian currencies — the Indonesian rupiah, Vietnamese dong, Thai baht, Philippine peso, and Brazilian real. Management explicitly flagged on the Q2 2026 call that many of these core-market currencies are weakening against the dollar, creating a translation headwind for the second half of 2026. This poses a direct risk to both the ~25% GMV growth guidance and the absolute $1 billion Shopee adjusted-EBITDA target, because a strong dollar shrinks the reported value of local-currency revenue and profit even when the underlying business grows in local terms. This is the single most important reason the stock trades at a discount to its highs, and it is largely outside management’s control. Investors should expect reported (USD) growth to potentially lag local-currency growth over the coming quarters, and should judge the business on constant-currency operating metrics — GMV, orders, loan-book growth — rather than headline dollar figures during this period.

Risk 2 — Credit risk in a rapidly scaling loan book. Monee’s loan book is compounding at 62% year-on-year, and while the 90-day NPL of 1.0% is currently excellent, fast loan growth can mask credit problems: a loan that defaults typically does so months after origination, so a book growing this quickly has a large cohort of “unseasoned” loans whose true loss rate is not yet visible. If a regional economic downturn — potentially triggered by the same currency weakness noted above — hits Sea’s underbanked borrower base, NPLs could rise sharply and force higher provisioning that would hit group profitability directly. The 5.3 million new first-time borrowers added in a single quarter are, by definition, the least-seasoned and highest-uncertainty part of the book. This is the structural vulnerability of the fintech moat, and it warrants close quarterly monitoring of the NPL trend and provisioning coverage.

Risk 3 — Intensifying e-commerce competition and take-rate pressure. TikTok Shop has entered Southeast Asian e-commerce aggressively, backed by ByteDance’s capital and a powerful social-commerce distribution engine, and is willing to subsidize both sellers and buyers to gain share. This threatens Shopee on two fronts: it can slow GMV growth, and — more insidiously — it can pressure the take rate and advertising pricing that drive Shopee’s high-margin revenue. If Sea is forced to respond with matching subsidies, the profitability inflection that underpins this entire thesis could stall or reverse. In Latin America, Sea faces the entrenched incumbent MercadoLibre, which raises the cost and lowers the probability of the LATAM optionality paying off. Competition is the chief threat to the network-effects moat, and while Shopee’s profitable logistics scale is a real defense, the risk of a prolonged subsidy war compressing margins is genuine and must be weighed.

7. Conclusion & Exit Plan

Investment rating: Buy. Sea Limited offers a rare combination — a genuinely profitable, self-funding, three-engine consumer platform growing revenue near 48% year-on-year, trading at 21x forward earnings and roughly 36% below consensus fair value. The three engines are mutually reinforcing: Garena’s high-margin cash funds Shopee’s commerce moat, Shopee’s captive user base feeds Monee’s low-cost underwriting, and Monee’s net interest income lifts group margins. That flywheel, plus a ~$5 billion net-cash balance sheet and embedded Latin American optionality, is the kind of structural advantage that justifies a premium the market is not currently paying. We stop short of Strong Buy only because the second-half FX headwind is a real and near-term drag on reported results.

Entry price range: $95–$105. The current price of $100.92 sits comfortably in a sensible accumulation zone. The bear-case floor of ~$95 (20x forward EPS) offers a reasonable margin of safety, and buyers below $100 are effectively paying a market multiple for a well-above-market grower. Investors uncomfortable with FX volatility could scale in, adding on any pullback toward the low-$90s.

Exit conditions:
– Target achieved: Trim into strength at the base-case target of $142 (~41% upside), and take further profits toward the bull-case $190 if LATAM traction and stable Monee credit materialize.
– Fundamental break: Sell if Monee’s 90-day NPL rises above ~2.5% for two consecutive quarters (credit-cycle break), or if Shopee’s advertising/marketplace revenue growth decelerates below GMV growth (moat erosion / take-rate compression from competition).
– Time-based: Reassess the thesis in six months, or immediately following any quarter where reported growth misses guidance primarily due to operational — not FX — factors.

Item	Detail
Company	Sea Limited (SE)
Current Price	$100.92
Target Price	$142 (base) / $157 (consensus)
Upside	~41% (base) to ~56% (consensus)
Rating	Buy
Key Thesis	Three-engine flywheel (Shopee + Monee + Garena) compounding at scale with expanding margins, priced at 21x forward
Main Risk	Second-half FX translation headwinds and Monee credit-cycle risk

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Sea Limited Three-Engine Flywheel: Why Monee’s 62% Loan Growth and Shopee’s $1B EBITDA Target Point to 56% Upside in 2026