PayPoint (LON:PAY) Insider Purchases £172,500 in Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Nick Wiles purchased 30,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 17th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 575 per share, for a total transaction of £172,500.

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

• 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, for a total transaction of £125.84.
• On Wednesday, April 22nd, Nick Wiles bought 19 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was bought at an average cost of GBX 634 per share, for a total transaction of £120.46.

PayPoint Price Performance

PAY stock traded up GBX 12 during trading on Wednesday, hitting GBX 575.50. The stock had a trading volume of 363,063 shares, compared to its average volume of 384,549. PayPoint plc has a 1-year low of GBX 438.35 and a 1-year high of GBX 870. The stock has a market cap of £346.70 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.70, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.38. The company’s 50 day moving average price is GBX 592.23 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 544.80. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 191.93, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a current ratio of 0.96.

PayPoint (LON:PAY) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, June 11th. The company reported GBX 74.40 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The business had revenue of £337.01 million for the quarter. PayPoint had a net margin of 11.67% and a return on equity of 45.78%. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 EPS for the current fiscal 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.