{"id":194054,"date":"2025-03-20T07:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-paratus-expands-with-n327-million-but-profits-lag-behind\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:22:27","slug":"namibia-paratus-expands-with-n327-million-but-profits-lag-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-paratus-expands-with-n327-million-but-profits-lag-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Paratus Expands With N$327 Million, but Profits Lag Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Paratus Namibia Holdings continues its aggressive expansion, driving strong revenue growth but facing profitability challenges due to rising costs and investment-heavy strategies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The company realised N$327.3 million in revenue in an aggressive expansion strategy that delivered a 16.4% year-on-year (y\/y) growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">According to an analysis by Simonis Storm Securities, this growth was driven by strong contract-based services (up 8.8% y\/y), higher Armada Data Centre occupancy, and a surge in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503190491.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paratus Namibia Holdings continues its aggressive expansion, driving strong revenue growth but facing profitability challenges due to rising costs and investment-heavy strategies. The company realised N$327.3 million in revenue in an aggressive expansion strategy that delivered a 16.4% year-on-year (y\/y) growth. According to an analysis by Simonis Storm Securities, this growth was driven by strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,9758,15323,5118,50902,4706,724,257,28803,10139,254],"class_list":["post-194054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-expands","tag-lag","tag-million","tag-n327","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-paratus","tag-profits","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}