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

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Rob Harding bought 24 shares of PayPoint stock in a transaction on Friday, December 19th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 470 per share, with a total value of £112.80.

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

• On Monday, November 24th, Rob Harding purchased 26 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 482 per share, for a total transaction of £125.32.
• On Friday, November 21st, Rob Harding acquired 1,924 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 519 per share, with a total value of £9,985.56.
• On Wednesday, October 22nd, Rob Harding acquired 17 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were purchased at an average cost of GBX 734 per share, with a total value of £124.78.

PayPoint Stock Performance

LON PAY opened at GBX 469 on Tuesday. PayPoint plc has a 1 year low of GBX 438.35 and a 1 year high of GBX 870. 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 stock has a market capitalization of £296.26 million, a PE ratio of 18.50, a P/E/G ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 593.20 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 691.48.

PayPoint (LON:PAY) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November 20th. The company reported GBX 29.25 EPS for the quarter. PayPoint had a net margin of 11.65% and a return on equity of 30.78%. 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 analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average 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.