Certainly got a lot going for it with a lot of post offices closing down. Im sure you have seen the bill payment service at a local shop were you can pay your utility bills, council tax, top up on your mobile cards, withdraw money from a ATM and a awfull lot more.

This type of business is usually low margin where the shopkeeper and paypoint get a cut of each transaction but they are moving into higher margin business that bodes well and people always have to pay their bills so its not like there is going to be a fall of in trade.

Heres a snap shot of the historical performance.

Summary financial information

Year ended 31 March
2002 2003 2004
m m m
Gross revenue 23.6 43.8 67.1
ABT deferred revenue release* 2.5 6.5 0.0
----- ----- -----
26.1 50.3 67.1

Net Revenue before ABT deferred revenue release** 14.0 21.1 28.6
Operating profit/(loss) before depreciation and (0.2) 4.0 8.1
amortisation ***
Operating profit/(loss)*** (1.4) 2.7 6.1
Profit/(loss) before tax*** (2.4) 1.8 6.0
Net cash flow before financing (0.1) 1.7 10.9

So you can see that they are profitable and in fact have tax credits to shelter future profits.

The company is also highly cash generative which is a very big plus.

The one thing that does look unatractive is the historical P/e, but with operting profits in the last year growing by 130% and this year the business is just booming along(50 new ATMS per month) Im sure we are going to see an attractive P/E come December when results are out.

Heres the link towards all the nitty gritty about the company. Note the name of the large blue chips which are its customers.

http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200409210700311519D.html

All in all a very fast growing company and should be worth a punt over the medium term.

DYOR.

certainly got clanged a bit this morning along with most other stocks

one bright spot for me is C+M Index which perversely is nicely blue

Certainly puts 1200p entry point further back in time.

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Paypoint said overall trading, taking seasonality into account, for the period to 30 June 2014 was in line with the company's expectations.

"Our retail businesses are continuing to generate satisfactory growth this year. Combining the Mobile and Online businesses under the unified group brand should unlock better growth opportunities for the group over time," Paypoint said in a statement.

"We have increased development, marketing and IT spend in the first half, the benefits of which are expected in the second half of the year and therefore, profit growth will be lower than net revenue growth in the first half."

Of the Q1 performance, Paypoint said the overall transactions processed for the 91 day period since year end were 189.3 million, up 5% on the 179.9 million transactions processed in the same period last year.

Revenues of £53 million were up 4% on last year. PayPoint's net revenues were £29 million, up 9% against £27 million last year with growth seen in bill and general, top-ups, retail services and Mobile and Online.

UK and Irish bill and general transactions were down 4% on last year due to lower gas consumption. Retail services transactions (ATMs, debit/credit cards, parcels, money transfer and mobile phone SIM cards) were up 29% on last year.

Mobile top-ups continue to decrease as a result of the decline in the prepaid mobile sector. Other top-ups are growing. UK and Irish retail sites at 30 June numbered 27,705, up 463 since the financial year end.

In Romania, profitable growth continues. We have processed 12.3 million bill payments in the period, up 65% on last year. We have increased our terminal estate since the year end by 173 sites to 8,527. Our Romanian business continues to add new clients and services, including the recently launched service allowing Romanians to pay for their road tax at PayPoint sites.

Collect+ volumes increased by 43% to over 4.0 million transactions in the period, compared to 2.8 million last year, but costs have increased. There has been a small decline in Collect+ sites by 67 to 5,515, whilst we have been planning the next stage of our network expansion, which will be in place ahead of the Christmas peak.

Mobile and Online transactions increased by 14% to 36.1 million in the period, compared to 31.8 million last year with mobile transactions of 10.3 million up 45% and online transactions of 25.8 million up 5%. The business has rolled out the first phase of parking payment services in central Paris in the period, which in total has 155,000 parking spaces and will help mitigate the end of the Westminster contract earlier this month.

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Barclays Capital downgrades PayPoint to underweight from equal weight.

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Paypoint has improved its H1 pretax profit to £22.5m, from £21.3m a year ago. Revenue was £104.3m, from £102.2m. It proposed an interim dividend of 12.4p a share, from 11.4p.

CEO Dominic Taylor was pleased to report continued growth in net revenue and operating profits in the first half of this financial year, demonstrating the quality of the businesses and its retail channels.

"Our Collect+ joint venture continues to grow and the combination of our Mobile and Online business, which we announced in March this year, is progressing satisfactorily," he said in a statement.

"Looking ahead, we expect our retail networks in the UK and Romania to continue to deliver profitable growth from our breadth of services and extensive client base.

"We will continue to invest in network expansion, innovative retail technology and new services to improve retail network quality further. We anticipate that this will enhance our competitive advantage and increase retail yield.

"The integration of our Mobile and Online businesses under the unified group brand and investment in product development is expected to unlock better growth opportunities for the group. Trading since 30 September 2014 is in line with our expectations."

Highlights:
⬢ Good performance from retail networks, net revenue up 8.1%

⬢ Romanian bill payment transactions grew 53.0% including contribution from new road tax contract

⬢ Total retail network sites up, to 36,753 and Collect+ now over 5,800 going into Christmas peak

⬢ Mobile and Online transactions up 11.3% to 70.3 million, with strong parking transaction growth

⬢ New developments in areas including smart meters and advanced payments platforms

⬢ Record first half group transaction volumes at 373.4 million, up 6.1%

⬢ Operating profits up 6.0%, lower than net revenue growth due to investments made in the first half

⬢ Robust balance sheet with cash of £28.7 million

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PayPoint expects to deliver FY results within the range of market expectations, despite lower than expected energy volumes in the third quarter.

Overall Q3 transactions processed for the quarter were 216.9 million, up 5% on the 205.6 million transactions processed in the same period last year.

Q3 revenues of £58 million were up 2% on last year. Net revenues2 were £32 million, up 4% from last year with continued strong growth in retail services offset by declines in top-ups and Mobile and Online.

"Bill and general net revenue was slightly higher than last year. Romanian bill payments continued to grow strongly. UK energy payments were held back, despite further growth in prepayment meters and increased PayPoint market share, as utilities have reported significantly reduced gas consumption. Furthermore, last year, we benefited from non-recurring set up revenues for the DWP's Simple Payment services.

"UK and Irish bill and general transactions were up 1% on last year notwithstanding the lower than expected gas consumption. Retail services transactions (ATMs, debit/credit cards, parcels, money transfer and mobile phone SIM cards) grew substantially, up 29% on last year.

"Mobile top-ups continued to decrease as the prepaid mobile sector declined, partially offset however, by an increase in other top-ups. UK and Irish retail sites at 31 December numbered 28,292, up by 295 since the half year end.

"In Romania, profitable growth continued. We processed 13.8 million bill payments in the period, up 27% on last year. We increased our terminal estate since the half year end by 268 sites to 9,024 and continue to add new clients.

"Collect+ volumes increased by 37% to over 5.8 million transactions in the period, with a record Christmas week of 598,000 transactions. Our Collect+ network continued to expand with an increase of 205 sites to 5,822 since the half year end.

"Mobile and Online transactions increased by 9% to 36.5 million in the period, compared to 33.4 million last year, with parking transactions up 17% to 9.6 million, despite the loss of Westminster, and online payment transactions up 7% to 26.9 million. Progress has been made in the aggregation of the Mobile and Online business. Nonetheless, net revenues in the quarter were lower than last year."

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PayPoint said overall Q1 trading was in line with its expectations. Transactions processed for the quarter were 201.6 million, up 6% on the 189.3 million transactions processed in the same period last year.

Net revenues were £29 million, up 1% on last year with growth in retail services partially offset by a decline in Mobile and Online, mobile top-ups and bill and general. Revenues of £51 million were down 2% on last year.

UK and Irish bill and general transactions were in line with last year with a continuation of low levels of energy consumption. Retail services transactions (ATMs, debit/credit cards, parcels, money transfer and mobile phone SIM cards) were up 24% on last year.

While mobile top-ups continue to decrease as a result of the decline in the prepaid mobile sector, other top-ups are growing. UK and Irish retail sites at 30 June numbered 28,702, up 395 since the financial year end.

"In Romania, profitable growth continues. We have processed 14.5 million bill payments in the period, up 18% on last year. We have 9,272 outlets in Romania, up 38 since the financial year end and continue to add new clients and services," PayPoint said.

"Collect+ volumes increased by 22% to over 4.9 million transactions in the period, from 4.0 million last year. We continue our discussions with Yodel with respect to its proposed cost increases to Collect+. There has been a small increase in Collect+ sites by 25 to 5,856 since the financial year end.

"Mobile and Online transactions increased by 16% to 41.8 million in the period, compared to 36.1 million last year with parking transactions up 11% to 11.5 million and online payment transactions up 18% to 30.3 million."

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Paypoint's H1 pretax profit has tumbled to GBP3.2m, from a year-earlier profit of GBP22.5m. Revenue was lower at GBP102.8m, from GBP104.3m. The just-finished period included a GBP18.2m goodwill impairment.

Interim dividend was hiked 14.5% to 14.2p.

"Looking ahead to the second half, we expect to conclude current Collect+ joint venture discussions with our partner Yodel and complete the sale of our Mobile and Online businesses," said CEO Dominic Taylor.

"Overall, we expect to make further progress across the business, with trading since 30 September in line with our expectations.

"Our dividend increase anticipates double digit growth in the dividend for the year as a whole and reflects our confidence in the business and its long term prospects."

OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:
- Record first half group transaction volumes at 399 million, up 6.9%

- Romanian bill payment transactions grew 15.6%

- Total retail network sites increased to 38,000 and Collect+ to 6,000 going into Christmas peak

- Mobile and Online transactions up 22.2% to 85.9 million

Numis comment today:
"A disappointing set of results/news. Continuing net revenue at £52m missed our £55m estimate, partly reflecting a decrease in prepaid electricity consumption. PBT was just £3.2m vs. -85% vs. our estimate of £21.9m, reflecting another significant write down in the value of M&O which management did not manage to sell in H1 as planned (now planned for H2 at a lower price) and the collect+ JV swinging back into loss reflecting courier cost increases. Excluding the goodwill writedown, PBT was £21.4m, slightly below our £21.9m estimate. The dividend at 14.2p was 3% higher than our 13.8p estimate, reflecting a higher payout ratio. We would anticipate downgrading our earnings forecasts to reflect weaker underlying trading, further M +O/Collect+ losses, possibly partly offset by some cost reductions, albeit we expect to increase dividend forecasts (reflecting an apparent willingness to increase the payout ratio).
● Numbers: Continuing net revenue was £52.3m (our est. £54.5m), explained as bill/ gen £26.2m (£28.5m), topups £11.1m (£11.1m) and retail £15.1m (£14.9m). PBT was £3.2m (£21.9m), explained as D&A -£2.9m (-£3.2m), other CoS -£5.4m (-£5.5m), admin costs/M+O losses -£23.3m (-£24.4m), collect+ JV -£0.4m (+£0.5m), further write down in M+O value -£18.2m (not expected) and net interest +£0.0m (+£0.1m). DPS was 14.2p (13.8p).
● M&O: Management said "Offers on the Online Payments business have not met expectations and accordingly, we have impaired the entire goodwill on this business." The balance sheet value is now £36m, having previously been written down to £55m and compares to the minimum £53m (acquisition prices paid only, i.e. not including management time, subsequent investment, time value of money, etc.) the company paid for those businesses."

Announcement of sale of Online Payment businesses
PayPoint is pleased to announce the sale of its Online Payment businesses comprising PayPoint.net and Metacharge to Capita, for a consideration of £14 million satisfied in cash at completion today.

Dominic Taylor, PayPoint's Chief Executive, said: "In line with our strategy, we are pleased to have agreed the sale of our Online Payment businesses. We announced our intention to sell our Mobile and Online businesses at our full year results last May, in order to focus on multi-channel payments where we have retail networks, to concentrate on our best prospects for future growth. We believe that Capita is a good owner to take these businesses forward and I would like to thank the management and employees for their contribution to PayPoint and wish them well for the future. We will update on the sale of the Mobile Payments business in due course."

Deloitte LLP acted as corporate finance adviser and Mills & Reeve LLP as legal adviser to PayPoint on the sale.

Jefferies International today reaffirms its buy investment rating on PayPoint PLC (LON:PAY) and cut its price target to 1100p (from 1330p).

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PayPoint continued to make progress across the businesses in Q3. Retail services grew strongly, and the outfit's new terminal is in pilot in the UK. The company has made progressed development of its core epos software.

CEO Dominic Taylor said:
"Since the end of the quarter, we have also concluded the sale of our Online Payments business, further strengthening our balance sheet.

"However, our progress has been partially offset by the unseasonably warm weather and its impact on energy consumption, an extension of the additional costs in Collect+ to facilitate the shareholder discussion and a delay in the sale of our Mobile Payments business. The restructuring of our business continues apace.

"We aim to resolve the Collect+ joint venture arrangements and complete the sale of our Mobile Payments business by the time we report our full year results in May, so we can focus all our effort on the development of our retail networks."

Group net revenues were £35.0 million, up 1.8% from net revenues for the third quarter last year3 whilst revenues of £58.1 million were down 3%3. We saw strong growth in retail services of 22.7% and Mobile and Online of 9.6% offset by declines in top ups of 13.7% and bill and general of 2.4%, the latter mainly due to lower energy consumption.

Overall transactions processed during the quarter were 225.4 million, up 3.9% on the 216.9 million transactions in the same period last year. The adverse VAT ruling from HMRC, as previously reported, along with the unseasonably warm weather, has slowed the improvement in our results.

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Paypoint has seen its FY pretax profit tumble 83.6% to GBP8.2m, from GBP49.6m, thanks to GBP48.99m of impairments, versus nil. Revenue was lower at GBP212.6m, from GBP218.5m.

Total dividend was 42.4p, from 38.5p.

"Following our decision to sell the mobile and online payments businesses, we have reviewed our capital requirements and allocation," the company said in a statement.

"Focussing on multi-channel payments where we have retail networks, simplifies our business and reduces the capital headroom we require. Given the high level of current changes in the business, we are adopting a cautious approach to the return of capital and plan to release the surplus over a period of five years at £25 million per annum.

"We will continue with a progressive dividend policy. It is our current intention not to borrow more than one times our earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation. The first special dividend is planned for December this year.

"If there is a potential acquisition which offers better returns, we may defer the special dividend as appropriate. In addition, we will distribute the sale proceeds from the sale of online payments business, together with the final dividend from the year under review.

"We also intend to distribute sale proceeds from the mobile payments business once the sale is completed."

Canaccord Genuity today reaffirms its buy investment rating on PayPoint PLC (LON:PAY) and raised its price target to 1063p (from 1035p).

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PayPoint said overall trading for Q1 remains in line with its expectations.

"We continue to make good progress on our strategy," said CEO Dominic Taylor.

"The commercial trial of PayPoint One is encouraging.

"Together with MultiPay, which is also progressing well, I am confident we have the platforms for extending and enhancing our proposition for clients and retailers."

PayPoint will release its half yearly financial report for the period ended 30 September on 24 November 2016.

These are doing quite well at the moment.

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PayPoint has today reached agreement with Yodel Delivery Network Ltd for a new arrangement with respect for Collect+, which will put the framework in place for long-term growth in the premier parcels click and collect and returns network.

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PayPoint (PAY), which offers a bill paying system in the UK and Romania, grew organic net revenue by 4.2% to £28.4 million in the three months to 30 June.

This was despite a 4.5% reduction in transaction volumes to 150.3 million, as a result of a decline in UK prepay energy volume.

UK retail services net revenue grew by 10.5%, driven by PayPoint One, card payment transactions and ATM transactions.

Romania net revenue grew by 16.1% at constant currency.

UK parcel volumes grew by 16.6% to 6.1 million.

Net revenue in bill and general decreased by 2.7% as transaction volume declined by 11.2%, driven mainly by a 15.1% reduction in prepay energy volume.

Dominic Taylor, PayPoint's chief executive, said: "The successful roll out of our innovative new PayPoint One terminal in the UK continues, following its launch last September. We are on target to achieve 8,000 installations by the end of this financial year, with 5,000 terminals already in service. This good progress underpins the board's confidence in our strategy and our full year outlook remains in line with previous guidance."

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PayPoint's revenue fell by 4.1% to £97.6 million in the six months to 30 September, following the sales of PayByPhone and Drop and Collect.

The number of transactions processed slipped from 337.2 million to 295.2 million, with transaction value down from £4.9 billion to £4.7 billion.

The previous six month figures include the results of the mobile payments business PayByPhone, which was sold on 23 December 2016, and Drop and Collect before the company's renegotiation with Yodel, which completed on 16 December.

The ongoing retail networks business grew revenue by 2.3% to £97.6 million, but pre-tax profit fell by 3% to £24.4 million as a result of higher costs associated with its investment in PayPoint One, MultiPay and improving customer service.

The company said progress is being made in reshaping the business towards future growth opportunities in retail services.

The company has declared an interim ordinary dividend of 15.3p per share, an increase of 2% year-on-year, alongside the additional interim dividend of 12.2 pence per share, resulting in an incremental payment of £18.7 million to shareholders.