As on Thursday, Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) started slowly as it slid -0.37% to $10.76, before settling in for the price of $10.80 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, WU posted a 52-week range of $10.75-$14.19.
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In the past 5-years timespan, the Financial sector firm’s annual sales growth was -4.63%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -2.13%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 1.76%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $350.50 million, simultaneously with a float of $336.38 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $3.63 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $11.77, while the 200-day Moving Average is $12.54.
Western Union Company (WU) Ownership Facts and Figures
Another important factor to analyze is how key investors are playing towards the stock of the Credit Services industry. Western Union Company’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.42%, in contrast to 92.56% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Feb 26 ’24, this organization’s Director bought 10,000 shares at the rate of 12.85, making the entire transaction reach 128,499 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 56,205.
Western Union Company (WU) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.44 per share during the current fiscal year.
Western Union Company’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 1.76% and is forecasted to reach 1.81 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 4.04% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -2.13% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Western Union Company (WU). The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.23. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $5.49, and its Beta score is 0.88. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.87. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 7.17.
In the same vein, WU’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 1.96, a figure that is expected to reach 0.43 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 1.81 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Western Union Company (WU)
Through scrutinizing the latest numbers posted by the [Western Union Company, WU], it can be observed that its last 5-days Average volume of 4.7 million was better the volume of 4.08 million, it posted the year before. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 3.96% While, its Average True Range was 0.23.
Raw Stochastic average of Western Union Company (WU) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 0.42%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 0.79% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 21.94% that was lower than 24.10% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
