The Western Union Company

WU stock score: 40/100

$6.43 · +2.88% · Scored Oct 22, 2026

Technical
34
Fundamental
45
News
23

The reading

The Western Union Company (WU) scores 40 out of 100, which reads weak, higher than 10% of Financial Services stocks and 19% of the 4,161 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 34, fundamentals 45.

Among the fundamentals, Fair Value at 100 and Asset Turnover at 100 score highest, while Fund Ownership at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 46 and contrarian oscillators 46.

News sentiment is negative at 23; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 23 to 43, and it is up 8 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward WU’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

45

Pulling it up

  • Fair Value100

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

  • Asset Turnover100

    Asset turnover is revenue divided by total assets: how much sales a company generates from each dollar of assets.

  • Return on Assets (ROA)100

    Return on Assets (ROA) shows how efficiently a company uses its assets to generate profit.

Holding it back

  • Fund Ownership0

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • PEG Ratio0

    PEG ratio divides the P/E ratio by earnings growth rate.

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)2

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

37 weighted scorers; 4 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

41

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • Candlestick Patterns100

    Candlestick patterns recognize specific price formations that historically suggest continuation or reversal.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (20)0

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • SMA 2000

    Simple Moving Average (200-period) is the most widely followed long-term trend indicator.

  • SMA 200 Cross Up1

    SMA 200 Cross Up tracks when faster moving averages cross above the 200-period SMA.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
23

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly601
Daily413
Weekly262
Monthly232
Quarterly302

Composite score, last 90 days

05010040Jul 25, 2026Oct 22, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 32Jul 26, 2026: 32Jul 27, 2026: 32Jul 28, 2026: 33Jul 29, 2026: 26Jul 30, 2026: 24Jul 31, 2026: 23Aug 2, 2026: 26Aug 3, 2026: 26Aug 5, 2026: 27Aug 6, 2026: 27Aug 7, 2026: 38Aug 8, 2026: 37Aug 9, 2026: 37Aug 10, 2026: 37Aug 11, 2026: 38Aug 12, 2026: 39Aug 13, 2026: 40Aug 14, 2026: 40Aug 15, 2026: 40Aug 16, 2026: 40Aug 17, 2026: 39Aug 18, 2026: 39Aug 19, 2026: 39Aug 20, 2026: 40Aug 22, 2026: 40Aug 23, 2026: 40Aug 24, 2026: 40Aug 25, 2026: 39Aug 26, 2026: 39Aug 27, 2026: 39Aug 28, 2026: 40Aug 29, 2026: 40Aug 30, 2026: 40Aug 31, 2026: 38Sep 1, 2026: 39Sep 2, 2026: 40Sep 3, 2026: 43Sep 4, 2026: 39Sep 5, 2026: 39Sep 6, 2026: 38Sep 7, 2026: 39Sep 8, 2026: 38Sep 9, 2026: 38Sep 10, 2026: 37Sep 11, 2026: 37Sep 12, 2026: 38Sep 13, 2026: 38Sep 14, 2026: 38Sep 15, 2026: 37Sep 16, 2026: 36Sep 17, 2026: 36Sep 18, 2026: 35Sep 19, 2026: 36Sep 20, 2026: 36Sep 21, 2026: 36Sep 22, 2026: 37Sep 23, 2026: 37Sep 24, 2026: 37Sep 25, 2026: 37Sep 26, 2026: 37Sep 27, 2026: 37Sep 28, 2026: 37Sep 29, 2026: 35Sep 30, 2026: 35Oct 1, 2026: 36Oct 2, 2026: 37Oct 3, 2026: 36Oct 4, 2026: 36Oct 5, 2026: 37Oct 6, 2026: 38Oct 7, 2026: 37Oct 8, 2026: 38Oct 9, 2026: 37Oct 10, 2026: 37Oct 11, 2026: 37Oct 12, 2026: 37Oct 13, 2026: 37Oct 14, 2026: 36Oct 15, 2026: 38Oct 16, 2026: 38Oct 17, 2026: 38Oct 18, 2026: 38Oct 19, 2026: 38Oct 20, 2026: 39Oct 21, 2026: 39Oct 22, 2026: 40
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Key facts

Market cap
$2.0B
Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Credit Services
Beta
0.55
Risk grade (1–10)
1
Next earnings
Nov 4, 2026

Credit Services peers

CompanyMarket capScore
ENVA Enova International$4.4B66
SLM SLM$4.1B53
BFH Bread Financial$3.9B61
UPST Upstart$2.3B48
AGM Federal Agricultural Mortgage$2.2B62
ECPG Encore Capital Group$2.1B71

Questions

What is WU's stock score today?

WU scores 40/100 (Weak) as of Oct 22, 2026: technical 34, fundamental 45, and news sentiment 23, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is WU a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 40 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean weak today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the WU score calculated?

99 weighted scorers feed it today: 37 fundamental, scored against Financial Services ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.