Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) kicked off on Tuesday, down -0.09% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $10.62. Over the past 52 weeks, WU has traded in a range of $10.62-$14.19.
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Financial Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -4.63% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 1.76%. With a float of $336.38 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $350.50 million.
The firm has a total of 9000 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 34.47%, operating margin of 16.83%, and the pretax margin is 14.64%.
Western Union Company (WU) Insider Activity
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Credit Services Industry. The insider ownership of Western Union Company is 0.42%, while institutional ownership is 92.80%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 26 ’24, was worth 128,499. In this transaction Director of this company bought 10,000 shares at a rate of $12.85, taking the stock ownership to the 56,205 shares.
Western Union Company (WU) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 1.76% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 4.04% during the next five years compared to -2.13% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Western Union Company’s (WU) current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.85. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 7.07.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.96, a number that is poised to hit 0.42 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.81 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Western Union Company (WU)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Western Union Company, WU], we can find that recorded value of 5.22 million was better than the volume posted last year of 4.1 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 11.84%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.23.
During the past 100 days, Western Union Company’s (WU) raw stochastic average was set at 4.02%, which indicates a significant decrease from 11.23% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 21.17% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 23.31% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $11.57, while its 200-day Moving Average is $12.48. Now, the first resistance to watch is $10.68. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $10.75. The third major resistance level sits at $10.84. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $10.52, it is likely to go to the next support level at $10.43. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $10.36.
Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 3.58 billion has total of 337,801K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 4,357 M in contrast with the sum of 626,000 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 1,036 M and last quarter income was 264,800 K.
