PayPoint (LON:PAY) Reaches New 12-Month High - Should You Buy?

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY - Get Free Report)'s share price reached a new 52-week high during trading on Tuesday . The company traded as high as GBX 870 ($11.88) and last traded at GBX 865 ($11.81), with a volume of 34834 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 847 ($11.56).

PayPoint Trading Up 0.3%

The business has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 734.58 and a 200 day simple moving average of GBX 694.88. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52, a current ratio of 0.99 and a quick ratio of 0.65. The company has a market cap of £578.90 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.60, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93.

PayPoint (LON:PAY - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, June 12th. The company reported GBX 70.10 ($0.96) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. PayPoint had a net margin of 11.65% and a return on equity of 30.78%. As a group, equities analysts forecast that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 EPS for the current 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.