Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) kicked off on Monday, up 1.00% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $8.02. Over the past 52 weeks, WU has traded in a range of $7.99-$13.11.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Financial sector was 2.20%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 1.31%. With a float of $327.77 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $332.10 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 9100 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 36.16%, operating margin of 17.17%, and the pretax margin is 14.38%.
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 0.83%, while institutional ownership is 98.09%.
Western Union Company (WU) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 1.31% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 4.83% during the next five years compared to 2.20% growth 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. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.29. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.65. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 6.22.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.69, a number that is poised to hit 0.44 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.84 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Western Union Company (WU)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 6.85 million, its volume of 7.94 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 9.00%.
During the past 100 days, Western Union Company’s (WU) raw stochastic average was set at 2.78%, which indicates a significant decrease from 13.10% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 0.20 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 0.26 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $8.98, while its 200-day Moving Average is $10.26.
