Insider Buying: PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) Insider Purchases 19 Shares of Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Rob Harding acquired 19 shares of PayPoint stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 25th. The shares were purchased at an average price of GBX 633 ($8.20) per share, for a total transaction of £120.27 ($155.71).

Rob Harding also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Monday, February 24th, Rob Harding purchased 19 shares of PayPoint stock. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 680 ($8.80) per share, for a total transaction of £129.20 ($167.27).

PayPoint Stock Performance

LON:PAY remained flat at GBX 632 ($8.18) during mid-day trading on Tuesday. 1,846,665 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 309,795. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52, a current ratio of 0.99 and a quick ratio of 0.65. PayPoint plc has a twelve month low of GBX 470 ($6.08) and a twelve month high of GBX 865 ($11.20). The company has a market cap of £452.58 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.98, a P/E/G ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. The stock’s fifty day moving average is GBX 663.13 and its 200 day moving average is GBX 717.06.

PayPoint Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 28th. Investors of record on Thursday, February 27th will be given a GBX 9.70 ($0.13) dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 27th. This represents a yield of 1.16%. This is an increase from PayPoint’s previous dividend of $9.60. PayPoint’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) 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.