On Friday, Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) was 2.55% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $10.57. A 52-week range for WU has been $10.51 – $14.19.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Financial sector saw sales slided by -4.63%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 1.76%. With a float of $336.38 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $350.50 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 9000 workers is very important to gauge. 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 and Institutional Ownership
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Western Union Company stocks. The insider ownership of Western Union Company is 0.42%, while institutional ownership is 92.62%. 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) Latest Financial update
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
You can see what Western Union Company (WU) is doing with its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.89. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 7.41.
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)
The latest stats from [Western Union Company, WU] show that its last 5-days average volume of 5.03 million was superior to 4.11 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 29.34%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.23.
During the past 100 days, Western Union Company’s (WU) raw stochastic average was set at 12.84%, which indicates a significant decrease from 50.38% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 20.99% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 23.54% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $11.49, while its 200-day Moving Average is $12.45. Now, the first resistance to watch is $10.97. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $11.10. The third major resistance level sits at $11.28. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $10.66, it is likely to go to the next support level at $10.47. The third support level lies at $10.34 if the price breaches the second support level.
Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) Key Stats
There are 337,801K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 3.76 billion. As of now, sales total 4,357 M while income totals 626,000 K. Its latest quarter income was 1,036 M while its last quarter net income were 264,800 K.
