PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) Insider Nick Wiles Acquires 18 Shares

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Nick Wiles acquired 18 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, January 22nd. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 695 ($8.58) per share, with a total value of £125.10 ($154.52).

PayPoint Price Performance

LON:PAY opened at GBX 684 ($8.45) on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.65, a current ratio of 0.99 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is GBX 774.04 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is GBX 721.80. PayPoint plc has a 52 week low of GBX 470 ($5.81) and a 52 week high of GBX 865 ($10.68). The stock has a market cap of £493.37 million, a PE ratio of 1,395.92, a P/E/G ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93.

PayPoint (LON:PAY) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November 21st. The company reported GBX 27.80 ($0.34) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. PayPoint had a return on equity of 30.65% and a net margin of 11.98%. As a group, analysts forecast that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 EPS for the current fiscal year.

PayPoint Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 27th will be paid a dividend of GBX 9.70 ($0.12) per share. This represents a yield of 1.16%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 27th. This is an increase from PayPoint’s previous dividend of $9.60. PayPoint’s payout ratio is presently 3,877.55%.

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.