PayPoint (LON:PAY) Insider Acquires £112.80 in Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY - Get Free Report) insider Rob Harding bought 24 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Friday, December 19th. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 470 per share, for a total transaction of £112.80.Rob Harding also recently made the following trade(s): On Monday, November 24th, Rob Harding purchased 26 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 482 per share, with a total value of £125.32. On Friday, November 21st, Rob Harding acquired 1,924 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 519 per share, with a total value of £9,985.56. On Wednesday, October 22nd, Rob Harding bought 17 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were bought at an average price of GBX 734 per share, for a total transaction of £124.78. PayPoint Trading Up 0.3%Shares of PayPoint stock opened at GBX 469.75 on Monday. The company has a 50-day moving average of GBX 598.86 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 693.24. PayPoint plc has a 12-month low of GBX 438.35 and a 12-month high of GBX 870. The company has a current ratio of 0.99, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52. The stock has a market cap of £296.74 million, a PE ratio of 18.53, 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 data on Thursday, November 20th. The company reported GBX 29.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. PayPoint had a return on equity of 30.78% and a net margin of 11.65%. On average, research analysts anticipate that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 EPS for the current fiscal year. Analyst Ratings ChangesSeparately, Panmure Gordon reissued a "buy" rating and issued a GBX 1,100 price objective on shares of PayPoint in a research report on Thursday, November 20th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Buy rating, Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average target price of GBX 1,100.Check Out Our Latest Analysis on PAYPayPoint Company Profile (Get Free Report)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.Read MoreFive stocks we like better than PayPointI Shouldn't Be Sending You ThisWall Street Stock picker Names #1 Stock of 2026They Laughed at $30. They Won’t Laugh at $70.How Long Will $1M Last in Retirement?Nvidia’s Dirty SecretThis instant news alert was generated by narrative science technology and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest reporting and unbiased coverage. Please send any questions or comments about this story to contact@marketbeat.com.Should You Invest $1,000 in PayPoint Right Now?Before you consider PayPoint, you'll want to hear this.MarketBeat keeps track of Wall Street's top-rated and best performing research analysts and the stocks they recommend to their clients on a daily basis. MarketBeat has identified the five stocks that top analysts are quietly whispering to their clients to buy now before the broader market catches on... and PayPoint wasn't on the list.While PayPoint currently has a Buy rating among analysts, top-rated analysts believe these five stocks are better buys.View The Five Stocks Here