The shares of Paytm brand, One 97 Communications, recorded a jump of about 7 percent on Wednesday morning. This boom came when the company reported to reduce the consolidated deficit to Rs 545 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2025. According to PTI news, the stock rose by 6.70 per cent to Rs 870 on BSE. It rose 6.74 percent to Rs 869.80 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). One 97 Communications has given information about reducing the deficit for the fourth quarter to Rs 545 crore for the fourth quarter ending 31 March after the payment processing fee and the reduction in employee profit.
The company improves performance
According to the news, the company said in the regulatory filing that a year ago the company had a loss of about Rs 551 crore in the same period. The company suffered a symbolic deficit of Rs 522 crore during the quarter, which was due to a boom of Rs 492 crore (Employees Stock Ownership Scheme) expenditure and loss of Rs 30 crore, after which Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma voluntarily surrendered 2.1 crore shares given to him as ESOP. Except for an extraordinary loss of Rs 522 crore, the company recorded a loss of Rs 23 crore for the March quarter.
Paytm’s employee cost was almost one third
The company said in a statement on Tuesday that PATM’s PAT (profit after tax) was increased by Rs 185 crore to Rs 185 crore to reach negative level of Rs 23 crore in the fourth quarter of the financial year 2025, which does not include a unique extraordinary ESOP fee of Rs 522 crore. Paytm said that according to the guidance, the company obtained an operational benefit of Rs 81 crore, except for the ESOP cost in the March quarter. Paytm’s employee costs declined by about one -third to Rs 748.3 crore during the March quarter, which a year ago in the same quarter 1,104. It was Rs 4 crore.
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