PhysicsWallah Share Price Climbs 14% After Lending Plan Reversal

 

By Dalal Street Investment Journal (DSIJ)
 

Summary:


PhysicsWallah share price surged nearly 14% on June 3, 2026 after the company reversed its plan to directly lend to students through FinZ Finance and shifted back to a co-lending model with established NBFC partners. The move came after concerns over a ₹120 crore investment in FinZ Finance.

PhysicsWallah shares surged nearly 14% on June 3, 2026 after the edtech company said it was pulling back from its plan to lend directly to students through its wholly owned subsidiary FinZ Finance. Instead, it would go back to a co-lending arrangement with established non-banking finance companies, a model it had moved away from only days earlier. The announcement put to rest a concern that investors had been sitting with since the company first signalled its direct lending push the previous week.

What Changed and Why It Mattered?

On May 27, 2026, PhysicsWallah's audit committee signed off on a ₹120 crore investment into FinZ Finance through a rights issue. The money was meant to support the subsidiary's working capital and help scale its student lending book. FinZ had picked up its NBFC licence from the Reserve Bank of India in September 2025 and started lending operations in March 2026, making it the company's first serious attempt at running a lending business under its own roof.

Over the days that followed, investors grew increasingly uneasy about what an in-house lending vertical would mean for PhysicsWallah's credit exposure and balance sheet, and the stock drifted lower as that unease settled in.

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Why The Initial Plan Raised Concerns?

The central issue was one of risk and where it would sit. Under the co-lending model that PhysicsWallah had used before, the credit exposure from student loans was shared with partner NBFCs. Neither party took all the risk. Moving to FinZ meant the entire exposure would now sit on the company's own books, and that is a different proposition entirely for a business that investors think of as an education provider.

The concern had a very specific reference point in Indian edtech. Byju's, once valued at $22 billion, is now in bankruptcy proceedings, and a large part of how that disclosed came down to student loans. Aggressive selling, unclear repayment terms, and families left with debt after courses were cancelled or discontinued, these were recurring themes in the Byju's story. For anyone following the sector, the combination of an edtech company and in-house student lending brought all of that back into view.

FinZ Finance publicly disclosed a starting interest rate of 9% on its loans but made no mention of an upper limit. That alone prompted a set of practical questions that the company had not addressed. What would happen if a student took a loan to enrol and then dropped out? Would the loan be written off, or would repayment obligations continue? Were the teams handling loan approvals and course counselling operating on commission structures linked to the number of loans sanctioned? These are questions any responsible investor would ask, and the fact that answers were not readily available added to the sense that the company had moved faster than its disclosures could keep pace with.

The Strategic Reversal Of PhysicsWallah

On June 3, 2026, PhysicsWallah confirmed it was walking back the direct lending plan and returning to NBFC partnerships for student financing. Credit exposure would go back to being shared with external lenders rather than concentrated on PhysicsWallah's own balance sheet. The decision removed the specific concern that had been dragging on the stock, and the shares moved sharply higher on the day.

This is probably better described as a course correction than a retreat. FinZ Finance still holds its RBI licence and the infrastructure it built is not going anywhere. The company has left the door open to revisiting direct lending further down the road. For the moment though, it has taken the more cautious route, and given the backdrop in the sector, that is a reasonable call.

Existing Lending Track Record Of PhysicsWallah

PhysicsWallah had been in the student financing business well before FinZ Finance entered the picture. For roughly two years prior to the in-house push, the company facilitated education loans through external NBFC partners, disbursing over ₹200 crore in total. Around 70% of those loans went to students already on the platform, with the remaining 30% going to learners from outside. Through all of that, non-performing assets stayed below 1%. By the standards of early-stage education lending, that is a reasonably clean track record, and it is part of why the abrupt shift to an in-house model felt jarring to investors who had seen the external model working quietly in the background.

Financial Performance Of PhysicsWallah

The lending debate unfolded at a time when PhysicsWallah's core business numbers were heading in the right direction. For FY26, the company reported revenue from operations of ₹3,899.54 crore against ₹2,886.64 crore in FY25, a growth of around 35% YoY. Q4FY26 revenue came in at ₹918.80 crore, up 51% from ₹609.60 crore in Q4FY25. Net loss for the quarter narrowed to ₹80.56 crore from ₹329.68 crore in the same period last year, a substantial reduction that pointed to improving operating discipline across the business.

About PhysicsWallah

PhysicsWallah provides test preparation courses for JEE, NEET, and UPSC, as well as upskilling programmes in data science, banking, finance, and software development. It operates through online platforms and a growing base of offline learning centres across India. Founded by Alakh Pandey and Prateek Boob, the company listed on Indian exchanges in November 2025 through a ₹3,480 crore IPO, the first edtech firm to do so after years of turbulence across the sector.

Source: Dalal Street Investment Journal (DSIJ), Business Standard, CNBC

Published Date : 04 Jun 2026

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