Insider Buying: PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) Insider Buys 18 Shares of Stock

PayPoint plc insider Rob Harding purchased 18 shares at GBX 677 ($9.16) each on May 22nd, totaling £121.86 ($164.97). This follows previous purchases of 20 shares at GBX 641, 12 shares at GBX 632, 19 shares at GBX 633, and 19 shares at GBX 680. The company's stock opened at GBX 671.10 ($9.08) and has a market cap of £480.58 million. PayPoint recently increased its dividend to GBX 9.70 ($0.13), yielding 1.16%.

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY - Get Free Report) insider Rob Harding bought 18 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 22nd. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 677 ($9.16) per share, for a total transaction of £121.86 ($164.97).

Rob Harding also recently made the following trade(s):

On Tuesday, April 22nd, Rob Harding bought 20 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 641 ($8.68) per share, for a total transaction of £128.20 ($173.55).
On Monday, March 31st, Rob Harding bought 12 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 632 ($8.56) per share, for a total transaction of GBX 7,584 ($102.67).
On Tuesday, March 25th, Rob Harding purchased 19 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 633 ($8.57) per share, for a total transaction of £120.27 ($162.81).
On Monday, February 24th, Rob Harding purchased 19 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 680 ($9.21) per share, for a total transaction of £129.20 ($174.90).

PayPoint Trading Down 0.7%

PAY opened at GBX 671.10 ($9.08) on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52, a current ratio of 0.99 and a quick ratio of 0.65. The company's 50 day simple moving average is GBX 650.79 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 703.02. PayPoint plc has a 1-year low of GBX 530 ($7.17) and a 1-year high of GBX 865 ($11.71). The firm has a market capitalization of £480.58 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.78, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93.

PayPoint Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, March 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 27th were paid a GBX 9.70 ($0.13) dividend. This represents a yield of 1.16%. This is a positive change from PayPoint's previous dividend of $9.60. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, February 27th. PayPoint's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 39.02%.

PayPoint Company Profile

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PayPoint plc engages in the provision of payments and banking, shopping, and e-commerce services and products in the United Kingdom. The company operates through two segments: PayPoint and Love2shop. The PayPoint segment provides card payment services to retailers, including leased payment devices; EPoS; ATM cash machines; SIM cards sales; receipt advertising; bill payment services and cash top-ups to individual consumers; parcel delivery and collection services; retailer service fees solutions; and digital payment services, as well as cash through to digital services.