PAYPaymentus Holdings, Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (2.1×) and margins widening.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Positive operating leverage, operating profit is growing faster than sales, so margins widen as the business scales.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 12% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is PAY?
Paymentus Holdings, Inc. earns 35% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 26 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 7.6%
Operating margin · Software - Infrastructure median 5.8% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.08×
Cash conversion · 2.40× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −0.02%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 6.1% |
| FY2021 | 2.6% |
| FY2022 | −0.60% |
| FY2023 | 2.9% |
| FY2024 | 5.1% |
| FY2025 | 6.3% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 25%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 7.6%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 6.2%
- Free cash flow margin
- 12%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 4.6%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.36B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $159M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $85M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 35%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Software, Infrastructure
Ranks #25 of 80 by RyuScore