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

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Rob Harding bought 1,924 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, November 21st. The stock was 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, for a total transaction of £124.78.

PayPoint Price Performance

Shares of PAY opened at GBX 472 on Tuesday. PayPoint plc has a twelve month low of GBX 470 and a twelve month high of GBX 870. The company has a market capitalization of £299.82 million, a P/E ratio of 16.57, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. The firm has a 50 day moving average of GBX 689.23 and a 200 day moving average of GBX 724.03. The company has a quick ratio of 0.65, a current ratio of 0.99 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52.

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

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Panmure Gordon reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 1,100 price objective on shares of PayPoint in a report on Thursday, November 20th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently 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.