Western Union Co. (WU): Price and Financial Metrics

WU POWR Grades

• WU scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 70.89% of US stocks.
• WU's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• WU ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 32nd percentile.

WU Stock Summary

• Western Union CO's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 98.04% of US listed stocks.
• WU's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 98.72% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for WU comes in at 16.63% -- higher than that of 89.79% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Western Union CO, a group of peers worth examining would be LEE, SBH, ALTG, WHR, and PAG.
• WU's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Western Union CO's official web site, go to www.westernunion.com.

WU Valuation Summary

• WU's EV/EBIT ratio is 10.4; this is 20.93% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• WU's price/earnings ratio has moved down 5.8 over the prior 181 months.
• WU's price/sales ratio has moved down 1.9 over the prior 181 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for WU.

WU Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -26.55%.
• The 5 year revenue growth rate now stands at -5.78%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 19.49%.

Over the past 70 months, WU's revenue has gone down $389,700,000.

The table below shows WU's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	5,070.8	1,045.3	805.8
2021-09-30	5,057.8	977.9	814.1
2021-06-30	5,030	879.2	810
2021-03-31	4,855	940.9	749.4
2020-12-31	4,835	877.5	744.3
2020-09-30	4,870.9	834.9	702.6

WU's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• WU has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 30.91% of graded US stocks.
• WU's asset turnover comes in at 0.55 -- ranking 290th of 561 Business Services stocks.
• ARC, III, and TZOO are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with WU.

The table below shows WU's key quality metrics over time.