Western Union is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in global money movement and payment services, providing people and businesses with ways to send money and make payments around the world. Co.'s segments are: Consumer-to-Consumer, which focuses on money transfers from one consumer to another; and Business Solutions, which facilitates payment and foreign exchange solutions, primarily cross-border, cross-currency transactions, for small and medium size enterprises, and other organizations and individuals. Co.'s remaining businesses and services, which consist of its bill payment services in Argentina and the U.S. and money order services, are included in Other. We show 58 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our WU shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute WU market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing Western Union market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing Western Union's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of Western Union versus a peer is one thing; comparing
Western Union market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like Western Union can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching Western Union by allowing them to research the Western Union market cap history. |
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