Western Union Company (WU) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $9.37, with 6.99 million shares of worth about $65.52 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -13.72% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a loss of about -1.06%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 332.10M shares, out of which, 327.81M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -5.16% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -7.78%. Year-to-date (YTD), WU shares are showing a performance of -11.60% which decreased to -26.74% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $9.00 but also hit the highest price of $13.11 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Western Union Company shares is 6.94 million. The stock is currently trading -3.44% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.22% for SMA50 and it goes to -13.51% lower than SMA200.
Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) currently have 332.10M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 97.45% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $3.10B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.72. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 3.48, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.69 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.74 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.97. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for WU, volatility over the week remained 1.33% while standing at 1.58% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 1.94% while it is estimated to increase by 4.38% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 4.73% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 2.20% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Monness Crespi & Hardt on April 24, 2025 offering a Sell rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $7.50 to it. On December 05, 2023, BMO Capital Markets Initiated their recommendations, while on October 20, 2023, UBS Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $14. Stock get a Peer perform rating from Wolfe Research on April 20, 2023.
