In recent trading session, Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) saw 1.96 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.75. Company’s recent per share price level of $10.29 trading at $0.11 or 1.04% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $3.40B. That most recent trading price of WU’s stock is at a discount of -35.37% from its 52-week high price of $13.93 and is indicating a premium of 12.54% from its 52-week low price of $9.00. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 7.42 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 6.88 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Western Union Company (WU), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 3.55. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 10 analysts covering the stock, 3 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 5 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) trade information
Upright in the green today for gaining 1.04%, in the last five days WU remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 04/25/25 when the stock touched $10.29 price level, adding 0.58% to its value on the day. Western Union Company’s shares saw a change of -2.97% in year-to-date performance and have moved 4.85% in past 5-day. Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) showed a performance of -2.78% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 27.76 million shares which calculate 4.73 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 10.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 2.0% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 7.5 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 11. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 27.11% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 27.11% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 2.20% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 1.95% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 4.66%.
WU Dividends
Western Union Company is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-22 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 9.14%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.94 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 6.2%.
Western Union Company (NYSE:WU)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.29% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 96.97 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 97.26%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 96.97% institutions for Western Union Company that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at WU for having 38.6 million shares of worth $471.74 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 11.401 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 33.88 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 10.0064 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $414.03 million.
On the other hand, T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Value Fund, Inc. and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 15.98 shares of worth $164.09 million or 4.77% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 10.58 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $108.69 million in the company or a holder of 3.16% of company’s stock.
