Paytm Q2 Review: Yes Securities Maintains 'Add', Revises Target Price — Check Details

Paytm's profitability metrics have improved to some extent, says Yes Securities, sees 10% upside potential.

Paytm's payment services has grown close to a ~20% handle, after bouncing back from the crisis situation, which does not seem like high-growth phase.

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Overall contribution profit was up 4.7% QoQ at Rs 12.1 billion, translating to a contribution margin of 58.5%, up by 466bps YoY but down -155 bps QoQ. Ebitda before ESOP cost stood Rs 1.41 billion, which translated to an adjusted Ebitda margin of 6.8%, as against -11.2% in Q2 FY25 and 5.3% in Q1 FY26

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Yes Securities Report

We maintain an ‘Add’ rating on Paytm with a revised price target of Rs 1400.

One 97 Communications Ltd.'s total revenue from operations was up 24.2% YoY and 7.5% QoQ to Rs 20.6 billion for the quarter. Revenue from Payments services was up 9.8% QoQ and 21.1% YoY to Rs 11.5 billion.

Revenue from Financial Services business was up 8.9% QoQ and 62.5% YoY to Rs 6.11 billion. The revenue from Marketing Services in Q2 stood at Rs 2.28 billion, down by - 24.5% YoY and -7.7% QoQ.

Payment Services has grown close to a ~20% handle, after bouncing back from the crisis situation, which does not seem like high-growth phase.

Paytm has relaunched the BNPL business. The overall unit economics of the new BNPL offering will be within 20 bps of what the company used to earn from the earlier version.

In the earlier avatar, the BNPL product used to make 70-80 bps margin. Also, management stated AI expands the opportunity hugely on the merchant side.

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