PayPoint (LON:PAY) Insider Rob Harding Acquires 26 Shares of Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Rob Harding bought 26 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, November 24th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 482 per share, with a total value of £125.32.

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

• On Friday, November 21st, Rob Harding bought 1,924 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 519 per share, for a total transaction of £9,985.56.
• On Wednesday, October 22nd, Rob Harding purchased 17 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 734 per share, with a total value of £124.78.

PayPoint Price Performance

PAY opened at GBX 476 on Thursday. 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 plc has a 12 month low of GBX 456.30 and a 12 month high of GBX 870. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 681.66 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 720.85. The stock has a market cap 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.

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 return on equity of 30.78% and a net margin of 11.65%. On average, research analysts expect that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 EPS for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Panmure Gordon reiterated a “buy” rating and set 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, According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of GBX 1,100.

About PayPoint

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.