Short interest in The Western Union Co (NYSE:WU) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 21.61M to 20.59M. This put 7.94% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Western Union gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Western Union's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 5.29M shares traded per day, it would take 3.89 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.