PayPoint (LON:PAY) Stock Price Passes Above 200-Day Moving Average – Should You Sell?

PayPoint plc (LON:PAY) shares crossed above its two hundred day moving average during trading on Monday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 583.49 and traded as high as GBX 613. PayPoint shares last traded at GBX 601, with a volume of 249,502 shares changing hands.

PayPoint Trading Down 0.1%

The company has a 50 day moving average of GBX 594.90 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 583.67. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 191.93, a quick ratio of 0.65 and a current ratio of 0.96. The stock has a market capitalization of £359.65 million, a PE ratio of 10.33, a P/E/G ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.36.

PayPoint (LON:PAY) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, June 11th. The company reported GBX 74.40 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. PayPoint had a return on equity of 45.78% and a net margin of 11.67%.The company had revenue of £337.01 million for the quarter. Sell-side analysts predict that PayPoint plc will post 56.9500056 EPS for the current year.

Insider Transactions at PayPoint

In related news, insider Nick Wiles purchased 30,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 17th. The stock was acquired at an average price of GBX 575 per share, with a total value of £172,500. In the last quarter, insiders have purchased 30,064 shares of company stock worth $17,287,648. Corporate insiders own 2.59% of the company’s stock.

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.