Rob Harding Buys 1,924 Shares of PayPoint (LON:PAY) Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Rob Harding purchased 1,924 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, November 21st. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 519 per share, with a total value of £9,985.56.

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

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

PayPoint Stock Up 0.5%

Shares of PAY opened at GBX 474.50 on Wednesday. The stock has a market capitalization of £301.41 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.65, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. PayPoint plc has a 1 year low of GBX 470 and a 1 year high of GBX 870. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 685.52 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 722.57. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52, a current ratio of 0.99 and a quick ratio of 0.65.

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

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Panmure Gordon reissued a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 1,100 price objective on shares of PayPoint in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. 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 a consensus price target of GBX 1,100.

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.