Insider Buying: PayPoint (LON:PAY) Insider Buys £124.80 in Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Nick Wiles purchased 20 shares of PayPoint stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, July 22nd. The stock was acquired at an average cost of GBX 624 per share, with a total value of £124.80.

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

• On Wednesday, June 17th, Nick Wiles acquired 30,000 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 575 per share, for a total transaction of £172,500.
• On Friday, May 22nd, Nick Wiles acquired 22 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 572 per share, with a total value of £125.84.

PayPoint Price Performance

PayPoint stock traded up GBX 8 during midday trading on Thursday, reaching GBX 620. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 463,792 shares, compared to its average volume of 382,630. PayPoint plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 438.35 and a fifty-two week high of GBX 778. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 191.93, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a current ratio of 0.96. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is GBX 579.27 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 567.71. The firm has a market capitalization of £372.29 million, a PE ratio of 10.62, a P/E/G ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.36.

PayPoint (LON:PAY) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, June 11th. The company reported GBX 74.40 EPS for the quarter. PayPoint had a net margin of 11.67% and a return on equity of 45.78%. The company had revenue of £337.01 million for the quarter. On average, equities research analysts forecast 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.