Rob Harding Purchases 19 Shares of PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) Stock

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) insider Rob Harding purchased 19 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 24th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 680 ($8.62) per share, with a total value of £129.20 ($163.86).

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

• On Friday, December 20th, Rob Harding bought 16 shares of PayPoint stock. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 762 ($9.66) per share, with a total value of £121.92 ($154.62).

PayPoint Stock Down 0.7 %

LON PAY opened at GBX 662 ($8.40) on Thursday. 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 plc has a 52 week low of GBX 470 ($5.96) and a 52 week high of GBX 865 ($10.97). The stock has a fifty day moving average of GBX 708.62 and a 200-day moving average of GBX 726.06. The stock has a market capitalization of £474.06 million, a P/E ratio of 13.59, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93.

PayPoint Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 27th will be issued a dividend of GBX 9.70 ($0.12) per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 27th. This is a positive change from PayPoint’s previous dividend of $9.60. This represents a yield of 1.16%. PayPoint’s payout ratio is currently 39.02%.

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.