PayPoint (LON:PAY) Issues Quarterly Earnings Results

PayPoint (LON:PAY) announced its earnings results on Thursday. The company reported GBX 70.10 ($0.95) earnings per share for the quarter, Digital Look Earnings reports. PayPoint had a return on equity of 30.78% and a net margin of 11.65%.

PayPoint Price Performance

Shares of LON:PAY opened at GBX 787.44 ($10.67) on Thursday. The business has a 50 day moving average price of GBX 675.12 and a 200 day moving average price of GBX 693.75. PayPoint has a twelve month low of GBX 568 ($7.70) and a twelve month high of GBX 865 ($11.73). The company has a market cap of £563.89 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.17, a PEG ratio of 31.13 and a beta of 0.93. The company has a quick ratio of 0.65, a current ratio of 0.99 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.52.

PayPoint Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Friday, March 28th. Investors of record on Thursday, February 27th were paid a dividend of GBX 9.70 ($0.13) per share. This is an increase from PayPoint’s previous dividend of $9.60. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, February 27th. This represents a yield of 1.16%. PayPoint’s dividend payout ratio is presently 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.