Paytm: Lack of a Cogent IPO Story?*

Papiya De

Asian Journal of Management Cases, 2024, vol. 21, issue 2, 215-225

Abstract: On 18 November 2021, Paytm, India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, went public, but its shares were listed at a surprising 9% discount from the initial price. This underperformance of Paytm’s highly anticipated ₹183 billion IPO, the largest in India, stunned the market despite the BSE Sensex index hitting an all-time high in October 2021 with a 50% increase over the previous year. While other unicorns like Zomato (thirty-eight times oversubscribed) and Nykaa (nearly eighty-two times oversubscribed) saw tremendous success in the capital market, Paytm struggled on the stock exchange. This raised questions about why a prominent brand with 3.33 billion customers could not effectively engage with stakeholders and failed to excite investors as Zomato and Nykaa did. Raghavendra Das, a communications consultant seeking to work with Paytm, assessed the company’s communication strategy and shared insights with MD and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma. The big question now is, what steps should Paytm and Sharma take next?

Keywords: Business communication; entrepreneurship; strategic management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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