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WU Stock Forecast: All the More Reason to Consider Western Union Company (WU) Now

Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is -10.15% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $10.51 and a high of $14.19 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The WU stock was last observed hovering at around $10.70 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.01%.

Currently trading at $10.71, the stock is -2.04% and -2.96% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 12.76 million and changing 0.09% at the moment leaves the stock -12.27% off its SMA200. WU registered -10.23% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -13.63%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $11.0364 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $12.2078.

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The stock witnessed a -0.09% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -10.60%, and is -0.46% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.25% over the week and 2.15% over the month.

Western Union Company (WU) has around 9000 employees, a market worth around $3.62B and $4.20B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 5.47 and Fwd P/E is 5.93. Profit margin for the company is 16.09%. Distance from 52-week low is 1.95% and -24.50% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (29.44%).

with sales reaching $1.03B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 1.51% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -4.06% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -2.16% in year-over-year returns.

Western Union Company (WU) Top Institutional Holders

633.0 institutions hold shares in Western Union Company (WU), with institutional investors hold 93.99% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 337.80M, and float is at 336.38M with Short Float at 5.83%. Institutions hold 93.71% of the Float.

The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 38.6 million shares valued at $471.74 million. The investor’s holdings represent 11.209% of the WU Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 33.88 million shares valued at $414.03 million to account for 9.8379 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ which holds 22.33 million shares representing 6.4829% and valued at over $272.84 million, while CAPITAL RESEARCH GLOBAL INVESTORS holds 5.5573 of the shares totaling 19.14 million with a market value of $233.88 million.

Western Union Company (WU) Insider Activity

The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by Murphy Timothy P., the company’s Director. SEC filings show that Murphy Timothy P. bought 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Feb 26 ’24 at a price of $12.85 per share for a total of $0.13 million. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 56205.0 shares.

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