{"id":989362,"date":"2026-02-02T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989362"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:31:31","slug":"zoho-founder-sridhar-vembu-on-why-he-sees-huge-opportunity-for-indian-it-companies-as-software-stocks-are-coming-down-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/zoho-founder-sridhar-vembu-on-why-he-sees-huge-opportunity-for-indian-it-companies-as-software-stocks-are-coming-down-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu on why he sees huge opportunity for Indian IT companies, as &#8216;Software stocks are coming down hard&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has said that falling software stocks are creating a major opportunity for Indian IT services companies, as he questioned high valuations and business models of large global software firms. In a post shared on social media platform X, the Zoho founder said many software companies were \u201cmassively over-valued\u201d and are now seeing sharp corrections. Vembu\u2019s post came after Microsoft witnessed its worst stock market days recently after it lost $400 billion in just a few hours as the company\u2019s stock plunged.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, Sridhar Vembu said software stocks are \u201ccoming down hard\u201d because many mature software companies were trading at price-to-earnings ratios of 30 to 40, which he believes are unsustainable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has said that falling software stocks are creating a major opportunity for Indian IT services companies, as he questioned high valuations and business models of large global software firms. In a post shared on social media platform X, the Zoho founder said many software companies were \u201cmassively over-valued\u201d and are now seeing sharp corrections. Vembu\u2019s post came after Microsoft witnessed its worst stock market days recently after it lost $400 billion in just a few hours as the company\u2019s stock plunged. In the post, Sridhar Vembu said software stocks are \u201ccoming down hard\u201d because many mature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989362","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}