PayPoint
PAY · Main Market · Industrial Goods and Services · mcap £418m · 712.0p 3 open situations →
- EV
- £417m
- EV / EBIT
- 13.6x
- Net cash
- £37.8m
- FCF yield
- 2.4%
- Revenue
- £320m
- Cash returned
- 12.3%
- Share price 1y
- −2%
- Insiders 12m
- bought £334k
- Next report
- around 19 Nov
PayPoint runs a network of over 30,000 UK convenience stores offering bill payments, parcel collection and card services. It also owns Love2shop gift cards and savings, plus Open Banking and e-commerce parcel businesses.
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Capital Markets Day strategy update
Planned from January 2026 after the June results, the Capital Markets Day was held on 29 September 2026. It set out unit-level growth drivers and KPIs, kept the 5–8% net revenue growth ambition unchanged, and confirmed the £30m a year buyback to March 2028.
- Financial framework
- Leverage within target range; dividends moving towards about two times cover; £30m a year buyback to March 2028 29 Sep 2026 ↗
- Reorganisation status
- Largely complete; implemented in Q1 FY27 29 Jul 2026 ↗
- Guidance
- On track to meet market expectations for FY27; second-half weighted 29 Jul 2026 ↗
- Network Services
- Underlying net revenue growth target of 5–10% per annum 29 Sep 2026 ↗
- Digital Payments & OB
- More than 20% compound annual net revenue growth; revenue to more than double over four years 29 Sep 2026 ↗
- Capital return
- £30 million per annum buyback continues through to March 2028 29 Sep 2026 ↗
- 29 Sep 2026 Capital Markets Day held; unit targets and KPIs set
- 29 Jul 2026 Reorganisation largely complete; early positive signs
- 11 Jun 2026 Implementation under way; reporting on new structure
- 30 Mar 2026 Reorganisation announced; cost base review underway
Buyback programme
PayPoint: buyback programme of £25 million, 7.2% of the market value – proposed (1 Jul 2026).
- 1 Jul 2026 proposed
Royal Mail Shop rollout
Royal Mail Shop branding went live in October 2025 and has reached 8,500 sites, 3,000 of them with over-the-counter postage. Self-serve kiosks will now only be piloted in H1 FY27, later than the Q4 FY26 promise.
- Sites live
- 8,500, of which 3,000 with over the counter services
- Next milestone
- Kiosk pilot in H1 FY27
Next: pilot Royal Mail self-serve kiosks in selected locations
- 11 Jun 2026 8,500 sites live; kiosk pilot H1 FY27
- 28 Jan 2026 Branding live since October 2025; rollout continuing
- 20 Nov 2025 Over 3,000 sites live
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