Western Digital (WDC)
Information Technology · Hard disk drives and enterprise storage
Western Digital is a data storage innovator that manufactures hard disk drives and specializes in enterprise, cloud, and edge computing storage solutions following its separation from its flash business.
What Western Digital does
Western Digital Corporation is a Delaware corporation that develops, manufactures, and sells data storage products and solutions. Following the completed separation of its flash-based products business (now Sandisk), Western Digital operates primarily as a hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer serving enterprise, cloud infrastructure, and edge computing markets. The company competes in dynamic storage markets with a focus on developing new storage technologies and expanding into adjacent data storage markets.
Themes: ["Data center infrastructure","Cloud storage","Enterprise computing","Storage technology","Edge computing"]
Fundamentals
- Price$550.30 as of 2026-07-08 close
- Market cap$165.0B as of 2026-07-09
- 1-year return+759.6% as of 2026-07-08 close
- P/E25.34 as of 2026-07-09
- Net margin+55.3% as of 2026-07-09
- Gross margin+45.4% as of 2026-07-09
- ROE+90.8% as of 2026-07-09
- Debt / equity0.16 as of 2026-07-09
- Revenue growth (YoY)+32.0% as of 2026-07-09
- Revenue CAGR (3y)-20.3% SEC XBRL
- Beta2.19 as of 2026-07-09
Dividend: yield +0.1%; 1-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Supply chain disruption risks including dependence on a limited number of suppliers","Competitive market pressures and actions by competitors affecting product pricing and market share","Trade policy and tariff impacts on international operations and cost structures"]
Competitors & peers
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-09. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-08.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.