PayPoint (LON:PAY) Insider Acquires £9,985.56 in Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY - Get Free Report) insider Rob Harding acquired 1,924 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, November 21st. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 519 per share, for a total transaction of £9,985.56.

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

• On Wednesday, October 22nd, Rob Harding bought 17 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 734 per share, with a total value of £124.78.

PayPoint Stock Performance

Shares of PAY traded down GBX 21 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting GBX 480. The stock had a trading volume of 1,334,211 shares, compared to its average volume of 245,906. PayPoint plc has a 52 week low of GBX 470 and a 52 week high of GBX 870. 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 business has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 693.19 and a 200-day moving average price of GBX 725.51. The firm has a market cap of £304.90 million, a P/E ratio of 16.85, a PEG ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93.

PayPoint (LON:PAY - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November 20th. The company reported GBX 29.25 earnings per share for the quarter. PayPoint had a return on equity of 30.78% and a net margin of 11.65%. On average, equities research analysts expect that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, Panmure Gordon reaffirmed a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 1,100 price target on shares of PayPoint in a report on Thursday. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, Based on data from MarketBeat.com, PayPoint has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average price target of GBX 1,100.

Read Our Latest Research Report on PayPoint

PayPoint Company Profile

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.

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