PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) Insider Rob Harding Purchases 20 Shares of Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Rob Harding purchased 20 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, April 22nd. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 641 ($8.51) per share, with a total value of £128.20 ($170.14).

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

• On Monday, March 31st, Rob Harding purchased 12 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 632 ($8.39) per share, for a total transaction of GBX 7,584 ($100.65).
• On Tuesday, March 25th, Rob Harding bought 19 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 633 ($8.40) per share, with a total value of £120.27 ($159.62).
• On Monday, February 24th, Rob Harding acquired 19 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 680 ($9.02) per share, with a total value of £129.20 ($171.47).

PayPoint Stock Up 2.5 %

LON PAY opened at GBX 665 ($8.83) on Thursday. 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 firm has a market cap of £476.21 million, a PE ratio of 13.66, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. PayPoint plc has a one year low of GBX 509 ($6.76) and a one year high of GBX 865 ($11.48). The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 634.30 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 710.70.

PayPoint Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, March 28th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 27th were given a dividend of GBX 9.70 ($0.13) per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, February 27th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.16%. This is an increase from PayPoint’s previous dividend of $9.60. PayPoint’s payout ratio is presently 39.02%.

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.