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Not Tesla or FAANGs, swelling optimism boosts Sea Ltd's shares by over 880%

After a rocky first year of trading, Sea's stock has gone on to trounce everything in its class

Forrest Li
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Sea Ltd. has quietly become the world’s best-performing large-cap stock | Photo: Bloomberg

Bloomberg New York
It gets far less attention than Tesla, the FAANGs or even the Robinhood flavor of the week.

Yet Sea Ltd. has quietly become the world’s best-performing large-cap stock, stoking a debate on Wall Street over whether the Singapore-based gaming, e-commerce and payments company is the next great internet colossus or just Exhibit A in a global tech bubble that’s destined to burst.

For now at least, bulls have the upper hand. Swelling optimism that loss-making Sea may one day become both the Tencent and Alibaba of Southeast Asia has boosted its New York-listed shares by more than 880% in the