Rob Harding Buys 24 Shares of PayPoint (LON:PAY) Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Rob Harding acquired 24 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, January 22nd. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 506 per share, for a total transaction of £121.44.

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

• On Monday, December 22nd, Rob Harding bought 27 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 470 per share, for a total transaction of £126.90.
• On Friday, December 19th, Rob Harding bought 24 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 470 per share, with a total value of £112.80.
• On Monday, November 24th, Rob Harding purchased 26 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 482 per share, for a total transaction of £125.32.
• On Friday, November 21st, Rob Harding acquired 1,924 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 519 per share, for a total transaction of £9,985.56.

PayPoint Price Performance

Shares of PAY opened at GBX 516 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a current ratio of 0.99. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 483.11 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 637.15. PayPoint plc has a 52-week low of GBX 438.35 and a 52-week high of GBX 870. The firm has a market capitalization of £322.66 million, a PE ratio of 20.36, a P/E/G ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93.

PayPoint (LON:PAY) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, November 20th. The company reported GBX 29.25 EPS for the quarter. PayPoint had a net margin of 11.65% and a return on equity of 30.78%. Sell-side analysts predict that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Panmure Gordon reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 1,100 price objective on shares of PayPoint in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average 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.