Western Union Company (NYSE:WU)’s traded shares stood at 5.27 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.88. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $11.17, to imply an increase of 0.09% or $0.01 in intraday trading. The WU share’s 52-week high remains $14.19, putting it -27.04% down since that peak but still an impressive 2.24% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $10.92. The company has a valuation of $3.77B, with an average of 5.47 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 4.28 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Hold for Western Union Company (WU), translating to a mean rating of 3.39. Of 10 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 3 analyst(s) give WU a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 5 advise Hold as 2 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.42.
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Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) trade information
After registering a 0.09% upside in the last session, Western Union Company (WU) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -6.37%, and -8.37% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -6.29%. Short interest in Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) saw shorts transact 20.73 million shares and set a 5.53 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $11 and $25 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, WU has been trading -123.81% off suggested target high and 1.52% from its likely low.
Western Union Company (WU) estimates and forecasts
Looking at statistics comparing Western Union Company share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has underperformed competitors. Western Union Company (WU) shares are -17.07% down over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate lower than industry average at 1.15% against 17.80%. Revenue is forecast to grow 13.50% this quarter before falling -2.20% for the next one. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -4.10% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 15 analysts is 1.03B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 11 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 1.03B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 1.05B and 1.01B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -2.10% before jumping 1.90% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -2.13% for the past 5-year period. While 2024 is set for a 1.61% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 3.78% annually.
WU Dividends
Western Union Company has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-04. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Western Union Company has a forward dividend ratio of 0.94, with the share yield ticking at 8.42% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 5.66%.
Western Union Company (NYSE:WU)’s Major holders
Western Union Company insiders hold 0.30% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 93.16% of the shares at 93.45% float percentage. In total, 93.16% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 38.6 million shares (or 11.209% of shares), all amounting to roughly $471.74 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 33.88 million shares, or about 9.8379% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $414.03 million.
We also have Price (T.Rowe) Mid-Cap Value Fund and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Western Union Company (WU) shares. Going by data provided on Jun 30, 2024 , Price (T.Rowe) Mid-Cap Value Fund holds roughly 12.22 shares. This is just over 3.62% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $136.54 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 10.62, or 3.14% of the shares, all valued at about 118.6 million.
