Nick Wiles Purchases 26 Shares of PayPoint (LON:PAY) Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Nick Wiles bought 26 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 22nd. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 470 per share, with a total value of £122.20.

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

• On Friday, December 19th, Nick Wiles purchased 65 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 470 per share, for a total transaction of £305.50.
• On Monday, November 24th, Nick Wiles acquired 26 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 482 per share, with a total value of £125.32.
• On Thursday, November 20th, Nick Wiles bought 25,000 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 538 per share, for a total transaction of £134,500.
• On Wednesday, October 22nd, Nick Wiles bought 17 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 734 per share, for a total transaction of £124.78.

PayPoint Stock Performance

LON:PAY opened at GBX 477.50 on Tuesday. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 593.20 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 691.48. The company has a market cap of £301.63 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.84, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. The company has a quick ratio of 0.65, a current ratio of 0.99 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52. PayPoint plc has a 52 week low of GBX 438.35 and a 52 week high of GBX 870.

PayPoint (LON:PAY) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November 20th. The company reported GBX 29.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. PayPoint had a return on equity of 30.78% and a net margin of 11.65%. As a group, equities analysts anticipate that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

More PayPoint News

Here are the key news stories impacting PayPoint this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Several senior executives have been buying shares at ~GBX 470: Nick Wiles and Rob Harding made small purchases on Dec 19 and Dec 22 (multiple tranches listed), signaling management confidence at current levels. These follow a larger Harding purchase in November (1,924 shares at GBX 519), which underscores continued insider accumulation. Insider buys and selling 2025-12-23
• Neutral Sentiment: PayPoint has disclosed routine share dealings under its Share Incentive Plan (SIP). These are standard allotments/plan-based purchases by management and are generally neutral for valuation but add to insider ownership. PayPoint executives acquire shares under company incentive plan
• Neutral Sentiment: Context for investors: PayPoint is trading below its 50- and 200-day moving averages (GBX ~593 / 691), has a market cap around £300m and a P/E ~19. Analysts (Panmure Gordon) have reiterated a Buy with a GBX 1,100 target — supportive long-term but not an immediate catalyst. These factors help explain mixed technical and fundamental sentiment.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Panmure Gordon restated a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 1,100 price objective on shares of PayPoint in a research note on Thursday, November 20th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, Based on data from MarketBeat.com, PayPoint presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target 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.