Key Points
- Rob Harding, a PayPoint insider, purchased 24 shares on Dec. 19 at GBX 470 (£112.80), adding to several recent buys including a large 1,924-share purchase on Nov. 21 at GBX 519 (~£9,985.56).
- PayPoint shares opened at GBX 469 with a market cap of ~£296.3m; analysts hold a consensus Buy rating with a GBX 1,100 target, and the company reported quarterly EPS of GBX 29.25, a net margin of 11.65% and ROE of 30.78%.
PayPoint plc (LON:PAY - Get Free Report) insider Rob Harding bought 24 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 19th. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 470 per share, with a total value of £112.80.
Rob Harding also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Monday, November 24th, Rob Harding bought 26 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 482 per share, with a total value of £125.32.
- On Friday, November 21st, Rob Harding purchased 1,924 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average price of GBX 519 per share, for a total transaction of £9,985.56.
- On Wednesday, October 22nd, Rob Harding purchased 17 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 734 per share, for a total transaction of £124.78.
PayPoint Trading Up 0.1%
Shares of PAY opened at GBX 469 on Tuesday. PayPoint plc has a fifty-two week low of GBX 438.35 and a fifty-two week high of GBX 870. The firm has a market cap of £296.26 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.50, a PEG ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 593.20 and a 200-day moving average price of GBX 691.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a current ratio of 0.99.
PayPoint (LON:PAY - Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Thursday, November 20th. The company reported GBX 29.25 EPS for the quarter. PayPoint had a net margin of 11.65% and a return on equity of 30.78%. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 earnings per share for the current year.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
Separately, Panmure Gordon reiterated a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 1,100 price objective on shares of PayPoint in a report on Thursday, November 20th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, According to data from MarketBeat.com, PayPoint has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a consensus target price of GBX 1,100.
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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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