PayPoint (LON:PAY - Get Free Report) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday. The company reported GBX 70.10 ($0.95) EPS for the quarter, Digital Look Earnings reports. PayPoint had a net margin of 11.65% and a return on equity of 30.78%.
PayPoint Price Performance
LON:PAY traded down GBX 2.43 ($0.03) during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting GBX 790.57 ($10.71). 422,828 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 245,162. 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 firm's 50 day simple moving average is GBX 682.77 and its 200 day simple moving average is GBX 692.27. PayPoint has a 1 year low of GBX 571 ($7.74) and a 1 year high of GBX 865 ($11.72). The company has a market cap of £566.13 million, a PE ratio of 16.23, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93.
PayPoint Increases Dividend
The firm also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, March 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 27th were issued a dividend of GBX 9.70 ($0.13) per share. This is an increase from PayPoint's previous dividend of $9.60. This represents a yield of 1.16%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, February 27th. PayPoint's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 39.02%.
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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.
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