Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) currently has a daily average trading volume of 7.58M but it saw 5236308 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.86B USD, the company’s current market price of $8.65 came falling about -0.35 while comparing to the previous closing price of $8.68. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $13.11 and as low as $8.29. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $8.55 while lowest mark touched by it was $8.73.
Monness Crespi & Hardt downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Sell” from “Neutral” on April 24, 2025 while assigning a price target of $7.50.
Over the week, WU’s stock price is moving -0.23% down while it is -8.56% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -28.63% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -18.40%.
Currently, Western Union Company’s total number of outstanding shares is 332.10M with 0.29% of that held by the insiders while 99.43% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 27.07% and return on equity (ROE) at 136.84%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 3.21 while having a 4.69 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.64. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.06 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.69. Its return on asset (ROA) is 11.16% on average.
