Ticker brief
WU WESTERN UNION CO
Financial · Diversified Finan Serv
last close
$7.24
1 day
+0.4%
14 days
-2.8%
mkt cap
$2.5B
signals 14d
9
authors 14d
5
crowd 14d
-0.8σ
Options inteloptions-surface reads · latest available day per source
| metric | reading | context |
|---|---|---|
| IV — ATM 30d | 34% mid · 33 pctile own 1y | IV/HV 0.69× (as of 2026-08-17) |
| Skew — 25Δ RR 30d | -0.168 1 pctile own 1y | puts bid vs calls (downside bid) |
| Net dealer OI (NDOI) | +0.60 normal | 5-session Δ +0.12 (as of 2026-07-09) |
| OI alarm | quiet | last alarm 2026-02-26 (z=2.0) |
Sentiment — last 14 days
daily mean sentiment, 2026-08-15 → 2026-08-24 · now +0.40 (−1 bearish … +1 bullish)
Who spoke5
| author | grade | trader score | signals | mean sent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| @OHare888 | A | -0.44 | 5 | +0.29 |
| @leadlagreport | B | -0.55 | 1 | -0.20 |
| @EmmanuelInvest | C | -1.11 | 1 | +0.35 |
| @Capitol_Forum | A | -0.49 | 1 | -0.20 |
| @stockgutter | B | +0.78 | 1 | +0.15 |
Recent signals9of 9 in 14d — receipts included
| date (PT) | author | sent | what they said | since then | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-24 | @OHare888 | +0.65 | Rejects bearish claims that Western Union is dead and says the stock proves otherwise. | -1.1% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-24 | @stockgutter | +0.15 | Discloses being out of WU and says a sale could make sense after it integrates IMXI. | -1.1% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-19 | @OHare888 | +0.00 | Rejects institutional index ownership as evidence that BKKT is fundamentally worth holding. | +0.6% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-19 | @OHare888 | +0.15 | Ticker-only reply with media suggests attention to WU but lacks a clear stance. | +0.6% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-19 | @Capitol_Forum | -0.20 | Western Union's International Money Express deal faces an open-ended California regulatory review. | +0.6% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-18 | @EmmanuelInvest | +0.35 | Verizon expands its Western Union partnership across Total Wireless stores through 2026. | +0.4% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-18 | @OHare888 | +0.65 | Presents a long-term recovery thesis for Western Union's digital transition and misunderstood business model. | +0.4% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-17 | @OHare888 | +0.00 | Presents a one-year performance comparison between BKKT and Western Union. | +0.8% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-08-15 | @leadlagreport | -0.20 | New York approved Western Union's Intermex deal while California paused it, creating closing risk. | -2.8% | tweet ↗ |
“Since then” = price move from the close on the signal's date (PT) to the latest close — what happened after they said it, not a backtest. A — means no trading session has closed since the signal yet. Sentiment is our extracted per-tweet score, −1…+1.