WU Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Western Union Company | NYSE:WU)

Western Union provides domestic and international money transfers through its global network of over 500,000 outside agents. The company handled almost 290 million transactions in 2025 and is the largest money transfer company in the world.

Western Union Company trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol WU.

As of October 16, 2026, WU stock price declined to $6.17 with 6,113,492 million shares trading.

WU has a beta of 0.80, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. WU has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.

WU has a market cap of $1.92 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Western Union Company reported $1 billion in Revenue and $.31 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-46 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.13.

In the last 3 years, WU traded as high as $14.19 and as low as $5.87.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that WU belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, SCHD, VB, VBR.

WU has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -12.0%, while the SPY ETF gained +16.7%. In the last 3 month period, WU fell short of the market, returning -23.2%, while SPY returned +1.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks WU has outperformed the stock market by returning +2.8%, while SPY returned -0.8%.

WU support price is $6.09 and resistance is $6.37 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that WU shares will trade within this expected range on the day.