Are we looking at the next big move in Western Union Company (WU)?

Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is -8.30% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $9.00 and a high of $13.60 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 $9.72 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it 0.0%.

Currently trading at $9.72, the stock is -1.14% and -6.22% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 5.89 million and changing 0.00% at the moment leaves the stock -11.90% off its SMA200. WU registered -25.74% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -10.00%.

The stock witnessed a -7.43% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -5.36%, and is -4.33% 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 2.21% over the week and 4.10% over the month.

Western Union Company (WU) has around 9100 employees, a market worth around $3.21B and $4.14B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 3.61 and Fwd P/E is 5.24. Profit margin for the company is 22.12%. Distance from 52-week low is 8.00% and -28.53% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (27.07%).

The EPS is expected to grow by 1.99% this year.

Western Union Company (WU) Top Institutional Holders

The shares outstanding are 332.10M, and float is at 327.86M with Short Float at 8.29%.

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 11.401% 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 10.0064 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ which holds 22.33 million shares representing 6.594% and valued at over $272.84 million, while CAPITAL RESEARCH GLOBAL INVESTORS holds 5.6524 of the shares totaling 19.14 million with a market value of $233.88 million.