PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) Insider Buys £123.30 in Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY - Get Free Report) insider Nick Wiles bought 15 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 23rd. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 822 ($11.13) per share, with a total value of £123.30 ($166.94).

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

• On Thursday, May 22nd, Nick Wiles bought 18 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 677 ($9.17) per share, with a total value of £121.86 ($164.99).

PayPoint Price Performance

LON PAY opened at GBX 824 ($11.16) on Tuesday. The stock has a market cap of £590.07 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.92, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. The company has a current ratio of 0.99, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52. PayPoint plc has a 52 week low of GBX 571 ($7.73) and a 52 week high of GBX 865 ($11.71). The company has a 50-day moving average price of GBX 706.14 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 691.21.

PayPoint (LON:PAY - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, June 12th. The company reported GBX 70.10 ($0.95) EPS for the quarter. PayPoint had a return on equity of 30.78% and a net margin of 11.65%. Analysts forecast that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 EPS for the current year.

PayPoint Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, March 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 27th were given a GBX 9.70 ($0.13) dividend. This is a positive change 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 is presently 39.02%.

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.

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