Western Digital/$WDC
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About Western Digital
Western Digital is a leading vertically integrated supplier of hard disk drives. The HDD market is a practical duopoly, with Western Digital and Seagate being the two largest players. Western Digital designs and manufactures its HDDs, with much of the manufacturing and workforce located in Asia. The primary consumers of HDDs are data centers.
- Ticker
- $WDC
- Sector
- Digital Hardware
- Primary listing
- NASDAQ
- Employees
- 40,000
- Headquarters
- San Jose, United States
- Website
- www.westerndigital.com
Western Digital Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$153B
17.46
$24.28
2.22
$0.55
0.14%
Price and volume
Market cap
$153B
Beta
2.22
52-week high
$799.87
52-week low
$102.00
Average daily volume
6.9M
Dividend rate
$0.55
Financial strength
Current ratio
1.329
Quick ratio
0.85
Long term debt to equity
0.012
Total debt to equity
0.119
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
1.95%
Interest coverage (TTM)
37.39%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
5,002
Gross margin (TTM)
48.85%
Net profit margin (TTM)
72.95%
Operating margin (TTM)
35.60%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
4.86%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$320,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
20.63%
Return on equity (TTM)
130.85%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
17.46
Price to revenue (TTM)
11.319
Price to book
16.74
Price to tangible book (TTM)
33.68
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
41.651
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
2.40%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
10.177
Dividend yield (TTM)
0.13%
Forward dividend yield
0.14%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
35.70%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
372.38%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
27.35%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
-0.06%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
65.34%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
37.57%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
-12.94%
What the Analysts think about Western Digital
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Western Digital stock.
Analyst projections of the future price of Western Digital stock.
Bulls say / Bears say
Western Digital exited fiscal 2026 with strong operating momentum: Q4 revenue rose 44% year over year to $3.75 billion, non-GAAP gross margin reached 54.4%, and free cash flow was $1.28 billion. Management guided to approximately $4.1 billion of fiscal Q1 2027 revenue and 55%–56% non-GAAP gross margin. (wdc.gcs-web.com) (Western Digital)
The post-Sandisk separation leaves WD focused on a single HDD business, and fiscal 2026 demonstrated significant operating leverage: revenue increased 36%, operating income rose 91%, and non-GAAP operating margin expanded to 37.3%. The company also declared a $0.15 quarterly dividend for September 2026. (investor.wdc.com) (Western Digital)
The stock’s rally has raised the bar for execution: despite strong results and above-consensus guidance, Western Digital fell 14.6% after its August 2026 report because investors viewed the outlook as insufficient against lofty AI-storage expectations. (investing.com) (Reuters)
Revenue concentration is substantial: cloud represented 89% of fiscal 2026 revenue, while the top 10 customers represented 73% and three customers individually contributed at least 10%. A pullback in hyperscaler AI infrastructure spending or pricing pressure from major customers could therefore have an outsized impact. (sec.gov) (SEC)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 8 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing Western Digital
AllUSDEURGBP
Fund name | Fund size | $WDC weighting |
|---|---|---|
iShares MSCI USA SRI$SUAS | $3.4B | 1.78% |
iShares MSCI USA SRI€QDVR | €2.9B | 1.78% |
iShares MSCI USA SRI£SUUS | £2.5B | 1.78% |
Xtrackers Artificial Intelligence And Big Data€XAIX | €7.9B | 1.08% |
Xtrackers Artificial Intelligence And Big Data£XAIX | £6.8B | 1.08% |
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