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Paytm posts first full-year profit of ₹552 Cr

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Paytm operates a digital payments platform and distributes financial products like loans and insurance

FY26 net profit was ₹552 Cr, reversing a loss of ₹663 Cr in FY25, with revenue up 22% to ₹8,437 Cr

Profit was supported by ₹854 Cr in other income from its ₹13,315 Cr cash balance, partly from the PayPay stake sale

Paytm reported its first full-year net profit of ₹552 Cr in FY26, compared to a loss of ₹663 Cr in FY25.
Revenue from operations grew 22% to ₹8,437 Cr in FY26.
EBITDA turned positive at ₹502 Cr in FY26, versus a loss of ₹1,506 Cr in FY25.
In Q4 FY26, net profit was ₹183 Cr, revenue was ₹2,264 Cr (up 18% YoY), and EBITDA was ₹132 Cr.
The company's cash balance stood at ₹13,315 Cr as of March 2026, partly from the December 2024 sale of its PayPay stake.
Other income in FY26 was ₹854 Cr, including interest and treasury income from cash parked in fixed deposits, debt mutual funds, and dollar assets.
Profit before tax was ₹582 Cr, meaning other income was 47% higher than PBT.
The profit includes a one-time impairment of ₹190 Cr related to the Paytm First Games joint venture.

Profitability milestone comes with a caveat: core businesses are scaling, but profit is still supported by interest and treasury income from the large cash balance.
Analyst Sunny Agarwal (SBI Securities) cited the J-curve phenomenon, where listed platform companies achieve scale-driven profitability after initial losses.
Paytm became a majority Indian-owned company as of April 2026, with FII stake falling from 72.11% (June 2023) to 49.4% (March 2026).
The RBI cancelled Paytm Payments Bank's banking license in April 2026 due to persistent non-compliance; Paytm says no financial or business impact as the investment was already impaired as of March 31, 2024.

Paytm's core payments business includes UPI, QR codes, Soundbox, and card machines for merchants, as well as consumer UPI, recharges, and bill payments.
It distributes financial products through an asset-light model: merchant loans, consumer credit (Postpaid, personal loans), and wealth products (equity broking, MTF, MF SIPs, digital gold).
AI Soundbox is deployed at 1.51 Cr merchant locations and is evolving into a small business operating system with insights and notifications in multiple languages.
AI is used in fraud detection, merchant onboarding, collections prioritisation, and software development, with custom small language models for Indian languages.
Paytm Money offers Margin Trading Facility at 7.99% p.a. with up to 4X buying power on 1200+ stocks.
The company also operates an insurance marketplace and distributes credit cards (Paytm HDFC, SBI Card, Axis Bank).

FY27 revenue growth is expected to be higher than 22%, with indirect expenses growing meaningfully slower than revenue.
Growth levers include merchant payments expansion, merchant loan distribution growth, consumer lifecycle monetisation, and AI-led operating leverage.
Cash will be deployed in capex, scaling the MTF business, AI investments, distribution, talent, and selective inorganic action at the right price.
AI is positioned as the operating system for the entire business, with the CEO seeing the AI transition as a leapfrog opportunity.