Currently, there are 337.90M common shares owned by the public and among those 336.32M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -1.16% and -4.20% over the past three months. WU shares are trading -3.21% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -15.07% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $10.04 and touched a high of $14.19 over the same period. WU has an average intraday trading volume of 5.21 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -1.84%, -3.38%, and -12.38% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) shares accounts for 89.58% of the company’s 337.90M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $3.47B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.83. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 3.75, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $2.74. The company has a PEG of 0.86 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 3.05. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.83% over the week and 2.24% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Western Union Company (WU) will achieve an EPS of 0.42 for the current quarter, 0.45 for the next quarter and 1.88 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.4 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.4. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.45 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 2.72%, and 5.54% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 4.37% over the next five years, compared to 2.21% over the past 5-year period.
BMO Capital Markets coverage for the Western Union Company (WU) stock in a research note released on December 05, 2023 offered a Market Perform rating with a price target of $12. UBS on their part issued Neutral rating on April 10, 2023.
