[Stock Market Feature] Cybersecurity concerns create opportunities for “return-to-analog” stocks—focus on laggard stocks tied to paper and cash payments

Amid rising cyber risk, companies involved in cash payments and paper-based payments are once again attracting market attention, even as digitisation advances. These developments suggest that new opportunities may emerge for related stocks targeting a return to analog.

There is a view that the market's focus is shifting to lagging paper- and cash-payment-related stocks. An analysis has been reported that companies involved in cash payments may be subject to renewed valuation alongside the expansion of digital payments.

Investors are watching these developments, with interest in the performance of related issues and follow-up news. Official sources are mainly reporting on trends among related paper- and cash-payment stocks.