Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) on Friday, soared 1.84% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $10.86. Within the past 52 weeks, WU’s price has moved between $10.51 and $14.19.
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A company in the Financial sector has dropped its sales by -4.63% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 1.75%. With a float of $336.38 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $350.50 million.
In an organization with 9000 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. 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
Observing investor behavior towards Credit Services industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Western Union Company is 0.42%, while institutional ownership is 92.63%. 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
As on 9/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.37 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 0.37) by 0. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.44 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 1.75% 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
Western Union Company (WU) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.91. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 7.50.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.96, a number that is poised to hit 0.43 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.81 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Western Union Company (WU)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 4.11 million. That was inferior than the volume of 4.11 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 65.64%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.22.
During the past 100 days, Western Union Company’s (WU) raw stochastic average was set at 21.26%, which indicates a significant decrease from 93.28% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 17.66% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 23.56% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $11.38, while its 200-day Moving Average is $12.42. However, in the short run, Western Union Company’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $11.14. Second resistance stands at $11.22. The third major resistance level sits at $11.35. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $10.94, it is likely to go to the next support level at $10.81. The third support level lies at $10.73 if the price breaches the second support level.
Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 3.80 billion based on 337,801K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 4,357 M and income totals 626,000 K. The company made 1,036 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 264,800 K in sales during its previous quarter.
