{"id":1023110,"date":"2026-07-23T12:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023110"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:42:57","slug":"paytm-among-jefferies-preferred-fintechs-as-revenue-growth-outpaces-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/23\/paytm-among-jefferies-preferred-fintechs-as-revenue-growth-outpaces-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Paytm among Jefferies&#8217; preferred fintechs as revenue growth outpaces costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai(Maharashtra) [India] July 22 (ANI): Brokerage Jefferies has reiterated its bullish stance on Paytm, calling it one of its &#8220;preferred fintechs&#8221; after the company delivered stronger-than-expected June quarter earnings, driven by robust revenue growth and operating leverage that outpaced the rise in costs. <\/p>\n<p>The brokerage maintained its &#8216;Buy&#8217; rating on the stock and raised its price target to Rs 1,600 from Rs 1,450, citing sustained momentum across payments and financial services, improving profitability and scope for further upside if merchant discount rates (MDR) are introduced on high-ticket UPI transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai(Maharashtra) [India] July 22 (ANI): Brokerage Jefferies has reiterated its bullish stance on Paytm, calling it one of its &#8220;preferred fintechs&#8221; after the company delivered stronger-than-expected June quarter earnings, driven by robust revenue growth and operating leverage that outpaced the rise in costs. The brokerage maintained its &#8216;Buy&#8217; rating on the stock and raised its price target to Rs 1,600 from Rs 1,450, citing sustained momentum across payments and financial services, improving profitability and scope for further upside if merchant discount rates (MDR) are introduced on high-ticket UPI transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023133,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023110\/revisions\/1023133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}