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Pine LabsPINELABS.NSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

India · INR·IT›Packaged Software

Provides point-of-sale payment terminals and merchant commerce software for retailers across India and Southeast Asia.

≈ India's Square/VerifoneMomentum neutral 41
Mkt cap
$1.98B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
50%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$28.0M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
79.2×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 17.8%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
117 days
3 Mar 2027
Close · INR₹162.45
1D+0.5%
1W+6.0%
1M-8.6%
3M+4.1%
6M-19.4%
YTD-32.1%
1Yn/a
ATR %5.0%
Beta1.00
52w lowhigh42.8% off high

What Pine Labs does

Provides point-of-sale payment terminals and merchant commerce software for retailers across India and Southeast Asia.

Earns a small fee on payments flowing through its terminals and online gateway, plus charges for terminal rental and software and fees on gift-card and pay-later programmes it runs for brands and lenders, so volume processed matters more than the terminal count.

In one line: India's Square/Verifone.

Products and services

  • POS terminals
  • Merchant payment processing
  • Buy-now-pay-later/financing
  • Gift cards/loyalty

Customers

  • Retail merchants
  • Banks (terminal deployment partners)
  • Consumer brands (gift cards)

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Payment hardware (POS terminals)
  • Merchant software (billing, financing)
  • Payment processing/settlement

What could go right

  • Digital payments penetration growth
  • Merchant financing/value-added services

What could go wrong

  • Payment processing fee competition
  • Regulatory changes in payments

Moat: narrow (installed base, switching costs). Large installed base of POS terminals and merchant integrations create switching costs.

Headquarters: Noida, India · Founded: 1998 · Employees: 5,007

Named competitors

  • Paytm PAYTM.NS
  • Razorpay private or unlisted
  • Ingenico private or unlisted
  • MSwipe private or unlisted

Pine Labs at a glance

Size Pine Labs (PINELABS.NS) is an India Information Technology company (Packaged Software) with a market value of $1.98B, the 372nd largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹162.45 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 19.4%, against -6.0% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — 6th lowest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 49.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +9.6%); the operating margin is 7.0% (peer median -0.5%).

Valuation It trades at 79.2× forward earnings against a peer median of 27.2× (7th most expensive of 17).

Next results Next results expected around 3 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

70809010011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 93PINELABS.NS 83
Six months, rebased to 100: Pine Labs against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Pine Labs financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue₹29.9B₹26.9B₹22.7B₹10.3B₹10.6B
Revenue growth—+18%+121%-3%—
Gross profit₹8.50B₹6.81B₹4.53B-₹2.42B-₹1.08B
EBITDA₹4.96B₹3.48B₹2.57B-₹1.85B-₹355M
Net income₹1.60B₹1.13B-₹1.45B-₹1.87B-₹562M
Free cash flown/a₹7.37B₹5.40B₹2.24B₹1.64B
Capital expendituren/a₹2.38B₹1.50B₹2.22B₹3.41B
Total debt₹3.53B₹4.41B₹9.70B₹5.75B₹3.90B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Pine Labs competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%-25%0%+25%+50%-20%0%+20%6035330023546002714686300315300459KAROPLNW20261860688158EMBRAC-BAIYAMPL300166FIVNPBI688343PINELABS.NS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Pine Labs is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-20%0%+20%+40%0×200×400×603533002354600271300315KAROPLNW1860600633688158EMBRAC-BAIYAMPL300166FIVNPBIPINELABS.NSRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Pine Labs is the large dot.

Pine Labs competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (PINELABS.NS vs PAYTM.NS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Pine Labs PINELABS.NS$1.98B-19%+50%7%79.2×n/a
One 97 Communications PAYTM.NS$12.2B+50%+24%2%94.4×n/a

How Pine Labs compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Pine Labs against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasurePINELABS.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-8.6%+8.4%5th lowest of 21
6-month return-19.4%-6.0%6th lowest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-42.8%-33.5%7th lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+49.5%+9.6%2nd highest of 21
Operating margin7.0%-0.5%7th highest of 21
Forward P/E79.2×27.2×7th most expensive of 17

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Pine Labs PINELABS.NSIndia$1.98B-19%+50%7%79.2×n/an/a
iReader Technology 603533.SSChina$1.98B+20%+14%-2%91.2×37.2%+9.5%
Tianyu Digital Technology 002354.SZChina$2.00B+31%+8%-2%135.3×25.9%+15.8%
Aisino 600271.SSChina$1.96B-16%-12%-24%26.2×n/an/a
Justsystems 4686.TJapan$2.01B+33%+10%44%n/a-6.3%+4.6%
Ourpalm 300315.SZChina$1.96B-3%-5%-65%125.6×55.8%-17.0%
Zhejiang Jinke Tom Culture Industry 300459.SZChina$2.01B-9%-10%-108%n/a43.2%-12.5%
Karooooo KAROUnited States$1.95B+25%+32%25%24.1×10.4%+17.7%
Planisware Societe anonyme PLNW.PAFrance$1.94B+46%+8%31%28.2×12.3%+16.8%
Pony AI 2026.HKHong Kong$1.93B-56%+67%-214%n/an/an/a
Mobvista Incorporation 1860.HKHong Kong$2.05B-43%+26%4%19.6×-1.1%+31.9%
Zhejiang Digital Culture Technology 600633.SSChina$2.06B-15%+14%10%20.8×15.4%-2.8%
UCloud Technology 688158.SSChina$2.08B-34%+26%2%499.0×n/an/a
Embracer EMBRAC-B.STSweden$2.08B+37%-31%-43%16.4×-9.8%+12.0%
China TransInfo Technology 002373.SZChina$1.89B-11%+16%1%39.7×22.0%-2.7%
iFAST AIY.SISingapore$1.89B-10%+35%24%18.6×-11.6%+24.8%
Amplitude AMPLUnited States$2.09B+161%+18%-27%109.2×36.9%+27.4%
Business-Intelligence of Oriental Nations 300166.SZChina$1.88B-27%+7%-5%94.1×n/an/a
Five9 FIVNUnited States$2.10B+27%+9%6%8.1×17.9%+21.4%
Pitney Bowes PBIUnited States$2.11B-1%-4%25%9.6×-5.4%-11.8%
Shenzhen Intellifusion Technologies 688343.SSChina$1.87B-46%-4%-52%n/an/an/a

Questions

Who are Pine Labs's main competitors?
Named competitors: Paytm (PAYTM.NS), Razorpay (private or unlisted), Ingenico (private or unlisted), MSwipe (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes iReader Technology (603533.SS), Tianyu Digital Technology (002354.SZ), Aisino (600271.SS), Justsystems (4686.T), Ourpalm (300315.SZ), Zhejiang Jinke Tom Culture Industry (300459.SZ).
Is Pine Labs expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 79.2× against a peer median of 27.2×, 7th most expensive of 17 in its peer set.
How has Pine Labs stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -19.4% against -6.0% for the median peer.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.