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# Why did Meli stock dip on good news?
- URL: https://www.theinvestorsociety.com/why-did-meli-stock-dip-on-good-news/
- Published: 2026-08-06T12:51:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-06T12:51:19.000Z
- Author: Jose Kont
- Tags: The Daily Dealflow

Hi, and welcome to a new edition of [The Daily Dealflow](https://www.theinvestorsociety.com/tag/the-daily-dealflow/) — the 5-minute briefing that gives you clear context on capital flows and market-moving trends across the Americas, from Silicon Valley to Buenos Aires. Let's dive in.

## 🏆 Deal of the Day

MercadoLibre, Latin America's largest e-commerce and fintech platform, reported Q2 2026 results after the close on August 5, posting its fastest revenue growth in four years — net revenue and financial income up 50% year-over-year to $10.2 billion, with gross merchandise volume up 44% to $22 billion per [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stay-ahead-game-mercadolibre-meli-131504427.html?ref=theinvestorsociety.com).

**Why This?:** As the region's biggest tech company, MercadoLibre's results are a bellwether for consumer spending, credit growth, and fintech adoption across Latin America.

![Q2 2026 Results MELI (Mercado Libre). ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/72/4072b0a5-dd13-4755-b3a4-f7b56403df30/content/images/2026/08/meli-q2-2026.jpeg)

**Positive Context:**

- Mercado Pago's monthly active users grew 30% to 88 million, and its credit portfolio surpassed $16 billion, up 75% year-over-year.
- Unique buyers rose 26% to 89 million, showing the commerce engine is still expanding, not just monetizing existing users.

**Yes, but:**

- Operating income fell 17% to $683 million as heavy spending on shipping, credit, and pricing squeezed margins, and shares dipped roughly 4% in after-hours trading.
- Analyst price targets range from $1,750 to $2,800, reflecting real uncertainty about when margin pressure eases.

**Zoom in:** The company spent roughly $80 million on AI in the quarter, which new CEO Ariel Szarfsztejn framed not as a cost to cut, but as an accelerator of a wider opportunity.

> **"We are building something quite unique globally; an ecosystem of commerce and financial services that compounds on itself."* Ariel Szarfsztejn, MercadoLibre CEO, via* [*Yahoo Finance*](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stay-ahead-game-mercadolibre-meli-131504427.html?ref=theinvestorsociety.com)

## 💰 Venture Capital

[Shelfmark (US)](https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/08/05/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/shelfmark-raises-35-million-to-automate-manufacturings-most-underserved-production-lines-and-make-them-smarter-every-run/2398953?ref=theinvestorsociety.com) – $3.5M, Seed, physical-AI platform automating continuous-flow manufacturing lines.

Decade (Brazil) – $85M, Seed (largest in Latin America), AI-native wealth advisor giving Brazilians integrated financial views and personalized investment guidance – [The Investor Society](https://www.theinvestorsociety.com/decade-raises-85m-in-latin-americas-largest-seed-round-to-bring-ai-wealth-management-to-brazil).

[Ordway (US)](https://ventureburn.com/ordway-secures-20m-funding/?ref=theinvestorsociety.com) – $20M, growth round, AI-powered quote-to-cash and billing platform.

Freehand (US) – $75M, funding round, AI agents that optimize Fortune 500 companies’ supply-chain spending and procurement decision-making at scale – [The Investor Society](https://www.theinvestorsociety.com/freehand-raises-75m-to-put-ai-agents-in-charge-of-fortune-500-supply-chain-spend/).

[Advocate Technologies (US) ](https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/08/04/advocate-18-million-commercial-insurance?ref=theinvestorsociety.com)– $18M, Seed, commercial-insurance benchmarking and transparency platform.

Rintin (Argentina/Mexico) – $6.2M, growth round, B2B marketplace with embedded credit connecting small merchants to manufacturers – [LatamRepublic](https://www.latamrepublic.com/rintin-announces-us-6-2-million-investment-to-scale-b2b-marketplace-in-mexico/?ref=theinvestorsociety.com).

![SpaceX today is a growth machine, not a profit engine: it’s generating more revenue than ever, but it’s still burning cash and closed Q2 2026 with a net loss of about $541 million. Source: Investing Visuals.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/72/4072b0a5-dd13-4755-b3a4-f7b56403df30/content/images/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-06-at-6.37.59---AM.png)

SpaceX today is a growth machine, not a profit engine: it’s generating more revenue than ever, but it’s still burning cash and closed Q2 2026 with a net loss of about $541 million. Source: Investing Visuals.

## 🏛️ Private Equity

[Procter & Gamble](https://www.axios.com/pro/merger-deals/2026/08/04/procter-gamble-thorne-3b?ref=theinvestorsociety.com) (NYSE: PG) agreed to buy supplements maker Thorne for $3.8b from L Catterton.

Bending Spoons (Italy) – $1.285B, acquisition of Airtable, no-code spreadsheet and database platform for enterprise workflow automation – [The Investor Society](https://www.theinvestorsociety.com/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-1-28b-in-first-post-ipo-acquisition/).

[Gran Tierra Energy (TSX: GTE)](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/canadas-gran-tierra-sell-south-american-assets-maurel-prom-133-billion-deal-2026-08-05/?ref=theinvestorsociety.com) agreed to sell its Colombian and Ecuadorean oil operations to Maurel & Prom (Paris: MAUP) for $1.33b (including debt).

[BlueAlly (US) ](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blueally-acquires-giganetworks-expanding-enterprise-security-and-network-solutions-expertise-302839488.html?ref=theinvestorsociety.com)acquired GigaNetworks, a Miami-based provider of enterprise IT and network security solutions.

Deel (US) – $40–50M, acquisition of Clarity, AI cybersecurity startup that detects deepfakes and verifies candidate identities in real time – [The Investor Society](https://www.theinvestorsociety.com/deel-acquires-israeli-deepfake-security-startup-clarity-in-40-50-million-deal/).

[Francisco Partners (US)](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/04/3338569/0/en/command-alkon-announces-acquisition-by-francisco-partners-from-thoma-bravo.html?ref=theinvestorsociety.com) acquired a 55% stake in Command Alkon, a Hilliard, Ohio-based construction software maker, from Thoma Bravo. Germany's Heidelberg Materials retains a minority stake.

Vensure (US) – acquisition, buys Tecspal, Uruguayan HR and workforce-management platform that scaled to $35M revenue without external capital – [The Investor Society](https://www.theinvestorsociety.com/vensure-acquires-tecspal-the-uruguayan-startup-that-scaled-to-35m-without-outside-capital/).

[Walmart (Nasdaq: WMT)](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/walmart-completes-its-acquisition-of-tv-advertising-company-vibe-co/?ref=theinvestorsociety.com) completed its purchase of VibeCo, a streaming ad platform that had raised nearly $80m from firms like Hedosophia, Revolut, Elaia and Singular.

## 📈 Public & Capital Markets

![Opening Market Figures, Thu 6 Aug, 2026.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/40/72/4072b0a5-dd13-4755-b3a4-f7b56403df30/content/images/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-06-at-6.41.06---AM.png)

Opening Market Figures, Thu 6 Aug, 2026.

[Shopify (US) ](https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/shopify-stock-surges-strong-second-144200145.html?ref=theinvestorsociety.com)– Q2 earnings, revenue up 34% to $3.58B, shares jumped over 18% on AI-driven commerce growth.

[Attovia Therapeutics (US)](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/05/3338994/0/en/Attovia-Therapeutics-Announces-Pricing-of-Upsized-Initial-Public-Offering.html?ref=theinvestorsociety.com) – $289M IPO, upsized biotech offering priced at $17/share on Nasdaq, valuing the company at $767M.

[Lithium (Argentina)](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/05/3339229/0/en/lithium-argentina-announces-220-million-of-new-debt-facilities-closed-at-cauchari-olaroz.html?ref=theinvestorsociety.com) – $220M, debt issuance, unsecured facilities closed at the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project to fund expansion.

## 📅 ICYMI

On this day in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee made the World Wide Web publicly available, posting its first description to the alt.hypertext newsgroup and publishing the first-ever website at info.cern.ch – [NPR](https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later?ref=theinvestorsociety.com).

A truck carrying 413,793 KitKat bars vanished en route from Italy to Poland this year, turning a real 12-ton candy heist into one of 2026's most-memed internet mysteries – [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/europe/kitkat-bars-stolen-europe-intl-scli?ref=theinvestorsociety.com).

[This chart ](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-economic-power-shifted-over-200-years/?ref=theinvestorsociety.com)reveals how global economic dominance has shifted over the last 200 years, and where power will reside next.

[Shopping is decreasingly a human task, apparently](https://www.customerexperiencedive.com/news/amazon-customers-embracing-alexa-for-shopping/826734/?ref=theinvestorsociety.com): Amazon says it 2x’d the number of Alexa for Shopping users over Q2\. Better yet for Amazon: orders led by its AI assistant were, on average, worth 40% more per order.  
  
*See you tomorrow,*

[***Jose Kont***](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-kont/?ref=theinvestorsociety.com)  
*The human behind The Investor Society.*

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