{"id":1044168,"date":"2026-10-16T16:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044168"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:04:06","slug":"persistent-systems-to-raise-rs-9000-cr-via-debt-to-fund-nagarro-acquisition-q2-profit-drops-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/16\/persistent-systems-to-raise-rs-9000-cr-via-debt-to-fund-nagarro-acquisition-q2-profit-drops-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistent Systems to raise Rs 9,000 cr via debt to fund Nagarro acquisition; Q2 profit drops 25%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT firm Persistent Systems\u2019 board of directors approved the issuance of short-term debt instruments to raise capital worth Rs 9,000 crore. The issuance of non-convertible debentures and commercial papers is being considered as part of long-term debt financing related to Persistent\u2019s acquisition of Nagarro SE. <\/p>\n<p>Persistent Systems to issue NCDs and CPs worth Rs 9,000 crore <\/p>\n<p>The Pune-based firm has proposed to issue NCDs worth Rs 8,000 crore on a private allotment basis. The company said in its regulatory filing that these securities will be listed on the National Stock Exchange.  <\/p>\n<p>Also, Persistent Systems\u2019 upper management has approved the issuance of commercial paper aggregating to Rs 1,000 crore. The IT firm will issue 20,000 CPs on a private basis. These will have a tenure of one year from the date of allotment and will be listed on NSE. <\/p>\n<p>Persistent Systems Q2 FY27 result <\/p>\n<p>For Q2 FY27, the tech firm posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 351 crore, down 25% year-on-year against Rs 471 crore reported in the year-ago period. On a sequential basis, its profit fell 27% from Rs 483 crore reported in the trailing quarter. <\/p>\n<p>The IT firm\u2019s consolidated revenue from operations for the quarter ended September jumped 30% YoY to Rs 4,663 crore as compared to Rs 3,580 crore reported in Q2 FY26. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, revenue expanded by 8% from Rs 4,303 crore reported in Q1 FY27. <\/p>\n<p>Persistent Systems share price <\/p>\n<p>Persistent Systems\u2019 share price was down over 3% in Friday\u2019s intraday trading session. Over the past one month, its stock has delivered a return of 2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT firm Persistent Systems\u2019 board of directors approved the issuance of short-term debt instruments to raise capital worth Rs 9,000 crore. The issuance of non-convertible debentures and commercial papers is being considered as part of long-term debt financing related to Persistent\u2019s acquisition of Nagarro SE. Persistent Systems to issue NCDs and CPs worth Rs 9,000 crore The Pune-based firm has proposed to issue NCDs worth Rs 8,000 crore on a private allotment basis. The company said in its regulatory filing that these securities will be listed on the National Stock Exchange. Also, Persistent Systems\u2019 upper management has approved the issuance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044168","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044178,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044168\/revisions\/1044178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}