PayPoint (LON:PAY) Insider Rob Harding Acquires 24 Shares

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Rob Harding purchased 24 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, January 22nd. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 506 per share, with a total value of £121.44.

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

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

PayPoint Trading Up 2.0%

LON:PAY opened at GBX 516 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of £322.66 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.36, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. PayPoint plc has a one year low of GBX 438.35 and a one year high of GBX 870. 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 business’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 483.11 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 638.48.

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

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Separately, Panmure Gordon reissued a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,100 price objective on shares of PayPoint in a report on Thursday, November 20th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to MarketBeat, PayPoint currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus 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.