Lan Tu Acquires 4,569 Shares of PayPoint (LON:PAY) Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Lan Tu purchased 4,569 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, November 20th. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 543 per share, with a total value of £24,809.67.

PayPoint Stock Performance

Shares of PAY opened at GBX 523 on Friday. PayPoint plc has a 1 year low of GBX 501 and a 1 year high of GBX 870. The stock has a market capitalization of £332.21 million, a P/E ratio of 18.36, a P/E/G ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a current ratio of 0.99. The company’s fifty day moving average is GBX 696.57 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 726.08.

PayPoint (LON:PAY) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November 20th. The company reported GBX 29.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. PayPoint had a net margin of 11.65% and a return on equity of 30.78%. On average, sell-side analysts predict that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Panmure Gordon reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a GBX 1,100 price objective on shares of PayPoint in a report on Thursday. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus 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.