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Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. As of today (2024-05-23), The Western Union Co's Beta is 0.62.
The historical data trend for The Western Union Co's Beta can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
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0.66 | 1.01 | 1.02 | 0.93 | 0.61 |
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0.81 | 0.82 | 0.70 | 0.61 | 0.63 |
For the Credit Services subindustry, The Western Union Co's Beta, along with its competitors' market caps and Beta data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
For the Credit Services industry and Financial Services sector, The Western Union Co's Beta distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where The Western Union Co's Beta falls into.
Beta is the sensitivity of the expected excess asset returns to the expected excess market returns. A stock's beta can be calculated by dividing the product of the covariance of the individual stock's returns and the market's returns by the variance of the market's returns over a specified period. Basically, GuruFocus uses the returns calculated over three-year period.
The Western Union Co (NYSE:WU) Beta Explanation
Beta is a measure of the volatility, or systematic risk, of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole. We usually compare beta to 1. A beta of 1 indicates that the security's price will move with the market. A beta of less than 1 means that the security will be less volatile than the market. A beta of greater than 1 indicates that the security's price will be more volatile than the market.
Beta is primarily used in the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to calculate the Cost of Equity, which can be used in the calculation of WACC %. The formula of Cost of Equity is:
Cost of Equity = Risk-Free Rate of Return + Beta of Asset * (Expected Return of the Market - Risk-Free Rate of Return)
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Estebarena Rodrigo Garcia | officer: President of North America | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
Suzette Deering | director | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
Jeffrey A Joerres | director | 5301 NORTH IRONWOOD ROAD, MILWAUKEE WI 53217 |
Giovanni Angelini | officer: Head of Europe and Africa | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
Matthew Cagwin | officer: Interim Chief Financ. Officer | C/O FIRST DATA CORPORATION, FIRST DATA, 225 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK NY 10281 |
Cherie Axelrod | officer: Chief Enterprise Risk Officer | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
Benjamin Carlton Adams | officer: Chief Legal Officer & Corp Sec | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
David Cebollero | officer: Interim Chief Legal Officer | 7001 E. BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
Andrew D Walker | officer: Chief Operations Officer | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
Jean Claude Farah | officer: EVP, President-Global Payments | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
Devin Mcgranahan | director, officer: CEO & President | 255 FISERV DRIVE, BROOKFIELD WI 53045 |
Gabriella Fitzgerald | officer: President Americas Region | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
Andrew Summerill | officer: President, Payments (Interim) | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
Caroline Tsai | officer: EVP, Secretary & Gen. Counsel | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
Jacqueline D Molnar | officer: Glbl Hd-Transformation & Compl | 7001 EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE, DENVER CO 80237 |
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