Insider Buying: PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) Insider Purchases 16 Shares of Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Rob Harding acquired 16 shares of PayPoint stock in a transaction dated Friday, November 22nd. The stock was purchased at an average price of GBX 792 ($9.95) per share, for a total transaction of £126.72 ($159.16).

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

• On Monday, September 23rd, Rob Harding purchased 18 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was bought at an average price of GBX 682 ($8.57) per share, for a total transaction of £122.76 ($154.18).

PayPoint Price Performance

The stock has a market cap of £590.02 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 1,669.39, 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 1 year low of GBX 445 ($5.59) and a 1 year high of GBX 865 ($10.86). The firm has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 737.44 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 668.54.

PayPoint Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 28th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 27th will be given a GBX 9.70 ($0.12) dividend. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 27th. This represents a dividend yield of 1.16%. This is a boost from PayPoint’s previous dividend of $9.60. PayPoint’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 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.