Insider Buying: PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) Insider Acquires 18 Shares of Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Nick Wiles bought 18 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, January 22nd. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 695 ($8.68) per share, with a total value of £125.10 ($156.16).

PayPoint Stock Down 0.3 %

PAY opened at GBX 682 ($8.51) on Friday. The company has a fifty day moving average of GBX 768.40 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 723.12. The stock has a market capitalization of £491.93 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 1,391.84, a PEG ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. PayPoint plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 470 ($5.87) and a fifty-two week high of GBX 865 ($10.80). The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a current ratio of 0.99.

PayPoint (LON:PAY) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November 21st. The company reported GBX 27.80 ($0.35) earnings per share for the quarter. PayPoint had a return on equity of 30.65% and a net margin of 11.98%. On average, research analysts expect that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 earnings per share for the current year.

PayPoint Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 28th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 27th will be given a dividend of GBX 9.70 ($0.12) per share. This is a positive change from PayPoint’s previous dividend of $9.60. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 27th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.16%. PayPoint’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 3,877.55%.

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.