On August 6, MercadoLibre fell 4.77% in pre-market trading, trading at $1833.0/share, with turnover of $219,200. The decline follows the company's Q2 earnings release after market close on August 5, where year-over-year profit contraction triggered investor selling.
MercadoLibre reported Q2 EPS of $9.19, beating the analyst consensus estimate of approximately $8.58-$8.65, while revenue reached $10.2 billion, surpassing expectations of $9.67-$9.78 billion and marking a roughly 50% increase from $6.79 billion a year ago. However, EPS declined 10.86% from $10.31 in the year-ago quarter. The company continues to invest heavily in Brazil and Argentina — including a planned $3.4 billion investment in Argentina this year and approximately 57 billion reais in Brazil — pressuring short-term margins. This marks the second consecutive quarter of the revenue-growth-without-profit-growth pattern, as Q1 also saw a strong revenue beat paired with an EPS decline, which similarly triggered a post-earnings selloff exceeding 5%.
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