Insider Buying: PayPoint (LON:PAY) Insider Acquires 20 Shares

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Nick Wiles acquired 20 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 24th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 620 per share, for a total transaction of £124.

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

• On Wednesday, July 22nd, Nick Wiles bought 20 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 624 per share, with a total value of £124.80.
• On Wednesday, June 17th, Nick Wiles bought 30,000 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 575 per share, with a total value of £172,500.

PayPoint Price Performance

LON PAY opened at GBX 629.50 on Wednesday. PayPoint plc has a 12 month low of GBX 438.35 and a 12 month high of GBX 770. The stock has a market cap of £375.45 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.78, a PEG ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.36. The company’s 50 day moving average is GBX 599.73 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 586.41. The company has a current ratio of 0.96, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 191.93.

PayPoint (LON:PAY) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, June 11th. The company reported GBX 74.40 earnings per share for the quarter. The business had revenue of £337.01 million during the quarter. PayPoint had a net margin of 11.67% and a return on equity of 45.78%. As a group, research analysts anticipate that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 earnings per share for the current year.

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.