PayPoint (LON:PAY) Insider Nick Wiles Buys 26 Shares

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Nick Wiles purchased 26 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, November 24th. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 482 per share, for a total transaction of £125.32.

Nick Wiles also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Thursday, November 20th, Nick Wiles acquired 25,000 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 538 per share, with a total value of £134,500.
• On Wednesday, October 22nd, Nick Wiles bought 17 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 734 per share, with a total value of £124.78.

PayPoint Price Performance

Shares of LON:PAY opened at GBX 476 on Thursday. PayPoint plc has a 12 month low of GBX 456.30 and a 12 month high of GBX 870. The firm has a market capitalization of £302.36 million, a P/E ratio of 16.71, a P/E/G ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. 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 company’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 681.66 and its 200 day moving average price is GBX 720.85.

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

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Separately, Panmure Gordon reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,100 price target 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.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price 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.