Spotting A Winner: Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) Advances 0.78 And It Still Have Room To Run

Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.97M but it saw 3735921 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 3.95B USD, the company’s current market price of $11.68 came rising about 0.78 while comparing to the previous closing price of $11.59. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $14.19 and as low as $10.92. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $11.515 while lowest mark touched by it was $11.69.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Western Union Company (WU) gives us an average price of $11.83, while its current price level is -17.67% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 6.96% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $11.82 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $12.59. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.62% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 1.93%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 44.42 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

UBS issued its recommendations for the stock as it resumed the price target for the stock is $14.

Year-to-date it is -2.01% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -10.70%.

Currently, Western Union Company’s total number of outstanding shares is 350.50M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 22.53% and return on equity (ROE) at 109.00%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 7.14 while having a 6.41 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.88. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 8.95 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.93. Its return on asset (ROA) is 7.07% on average.