Technology / Computer HardwareUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

WDC stock hub

WDC trades against a final fair-value range of $142.93-$297.11, with the midpoint set by the accepted valuation synthesis rather than earlier draft model outputs.

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Fair value midpoint

$206

$143 - $297

Upside to midpoint

-57.1%

Based on latest report

Confidence

57/100

Data quality and model convergence

Market cap

$165.4B

NASDAQ

Our take

Research highlights

What our analysis says

Pulled from the latest published report. The full reasoning lives under /analysis.

Biggest opportunity

Bull case

Bull: The AI storage boom structurally extends the current cycle, allowing WDC to sustain peak profitability while unlocking conglomerate discount value through its impending split.

Biggest risk

Cyclical Bust and Oversupply

12-24 Months

Recommended action

Sell

WDC is rated Sell at $480.00 versus the reconciled fair value midpoint of $205.87, implying -57.11% upside/downside. Confidence is separately disclosed at 57/100.

Market data

Price

Recent price action with selectable time range.

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Forecast

Targets

Bull, base, and bear cases with expected-return framing.

Valuation

Models

Fair-value bridge, DCF, owner earnings, and peer multiples.

Sensitivity

Grid

Cost-of-equity and terminal-growth stress table.

Risks

Bear case

Kill scenarios, soft-pass flags, and downside catalysts.

Earnings

Decision tree

Next earnings setup and beat / inline / miss thresholds.

Position sizing

Checkpoints

Entry, exit, conviction, and quarterly monitoring rules.

Financials

History

Revenue, margins, cash flow, and balance-sheet context.

Peers

Comps

Relative valuation and profitability against the cohort.

Moat

Durability

Economic-profit evidence and competitive advantage risk.

Industry cycle

Context

Sector phase, capital cycle, and secular tailwinds.

Scorecard

Factors

Six-factor overlay and 9-category weighted scorecard.

Recommendation

Verdict

Final action, action steps, opportunity, and biggest risk.

Perspectives

Lenses

Growth, value, and income investor reads.

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E27.6

P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a

Trailing P/E0

P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a

ROE85.9

P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a

ROIC41.9

P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a

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Our take

Indicator catalog

All WDC market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

280

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Currency

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Showing 280 of 280 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000106040
Company name	Western Digital Corporation
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	958102105
Employees	51,000
Employees Change	-2,000%
Employees Change Percent	-3.77
Enterprise value	$163.9B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500, NASDAQ100
Industry	Computer Hardware
Isin	US9581021055
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$165.4B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$480
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	230,921.57x
Sector	Technology
Sic	3572
Symbol	WDC
Website	https://www.westerndigital.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	3.86%
EV Earnings	25.7x
EV Sales Forward	10.48x
EV/EBIT	44.54x
EV/EBITDA	41.73x
EV/FCF	56.43x
EV/Sales	13.92x
FCF yield	1.76%
Forward P/E	31.23x
P/B ratio	17.11x
P/E ratio	26.29x
P/S ratio	14.05x
PE Ratio5 Y	18.21x
PEG ratio	0.5x
PS Forward	10.58x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	31.26%
EBITDA Margin	33.35%
FCF margin	24.67%
Gross margin	45.43%
Gross Profit	$5.4B
Gross Profit Growth	61.05%
Gross Profit Growth Q	83.77%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	18.15%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	6.05%
Net Income	$6.4B
Net Income Growth	295.57%
Net Income Growth Q	516.35%
Net Income Growth Quarters	10%
Net Income Growth Years	2%
Net Income Growth5 Y	79.02%
Pretax Margin	59.48%
Profit Margin	55.29%
Profit Per Employee	$125,098
Profitable Years	1
ROA	14.65
Roa5y	3.08
ROCE	35.37
ROE	85.92
Roe5y	5.44
ROIC	41.87
Roic5y	6.61

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	34.68%
Cagr15y	22.45%
Cagr1y	989.98%
Cagr20y	19.81%
Cagr3y	167.12%
Cagr5y	54.86%
Div CAGR10	-12.94%
Div CAGR3	71%
Div CAGR5	-24.21%
EPS Growth	302.7
EPS Growth Q	482.9
EPS Growth Quarters	10
EPS Growth Years	2
EPS Growth5 Y	74.22
FCF Growth	240.16%
FCF Growth Q	158.05%
FCF Growth5 Y	134.46%
OCF Growth	150.65%
OCF Growth Q	121.06%
OCF Growth10 Y	4.5%
OCF Growth5 Y	25.02%
Revenue Growth	32.04x
Revenue Growth Q	45.47x
Revenue Growth Quarters	5x
Revenue Growth Years	2x
Revenue Growth3 Y	-5.99x
Revenue Growth5 Y	-6.28x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.75
Assets	$15B
Cash	$3.2B
Current Assets	$6.9B
Current Liabilities	$4.6B
Debt	$1.7B
Debt EBITDA	$0.43
Debt Equity	$0.18
Debt FCF	$0.59
Equity	$9.7B
Interest Coverage	16.36
Liabilities	$5.4B
Long Term Assets	$8.1B
Long Term Liabilities	$728M
Net Cash	$1.5B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$0.91
Net Debt EBITDA	$-0.39
Net Debt Equity	$-0.16
Net Debt FCF	$-0.52
Tangible Book Value	$5.4B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$15.53
WACC	16.07

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	1.49
Inventory Turnover	4.82
Net Working Capital	$650M
Quick ratio	1.11
Working Capital	$2.3B
Working Capital Turnover	$4.55

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	1.07%
Dividend Growth	400%
Dividend Growth Years	0%
Dividend per share	$0.6
Dividend Years	2
Dividend Yield	0.13%
Ex Div Date	2026-06-05
Last Dividend	$0.15
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	2.73%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	1,862.99%
1Y total return	988.2%
200-day SMA	201
3Y total return	1,807.26%
50-day SMA	335.6
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	790.41%
All Time High	483.9
All Time High Change	-0.8%
All Time High Date	2026-05-06
All Time Low	1
All Time Low Change	47,900%
All Time Low Date	1991-12-12
ATR	26.14
Beta	2.16
Beta1y	1.78
Beta2y	2.24
Ch YTD	178.6
High	483.7
High52	483.9
High52 Date	2026-05-06
High52ch	-0.8%
Low	469.3
Low52	43.88
Low52 Date	2025-05-09
Low52ch	993.89%
Ma50ch	43.04%
Premarket Change Percent	2.22
Premarket Price	$474
Premarket Volume	159,474
Price vs 200-day SMA	138.8%
RSI	76.28
RSI Monthly	93.25
RSI Weekly	86.42
Sharpe ratio	4.12x
Sortino ratio	7.61
Total Return	1.19%
Tr YTD	178.8
Tr15y	1,986.9%
Tr1m	53.87%
Tr1w	11.24%
Tr3m	69.95%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	23
Analyst Count Top	18
Analyst Price Target Top	$392
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$2.36
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	71.01
Earnings Revenue Estimate	3,239,487,136x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	41.22x
Operating Income	$3.7B
Operating Income Growth	115.1
Operating Income Growth Q	120.9
Operating Income Growth3 Y	216.6
Operating Income Growth5 Y	38.51
Operating margin	31.26
Price target	$342
Price Target Change	$-28.77
Price Target Change Top	$-18.25

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	342,298,446%
Float Percent	99.31%
Net Borrowing	-1,905,000,000
Shares Insiders	0.55%
Shares Institutions	97.3%
Shares Out	344,682,131
Shares Qo Q	1.57%
Shares Yo Y	-1.07%
Short Float	7.82%
Short Ratio	3.07
Short Shares	7.76

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$2.7B
Average Volume	7,784,668.5x
Bv Per Share	28.06
CAPEX	$-381M
Ch10y	1,187.9
Ch15y	1,160.5
Ch1m	53.87
Ch1w	11.24
Ch1y	983.5
Ch20y	2,143
Ch3m	69.86
Ch3y	1,335
Ch5y	569.9
Ch6m	194.6
Change	3.47%
Change From Open	1.04
Close	463.9
Days Gap	2.4
Depreciation Amortization	247,000,000
Dollar Volume	3,806,340,960
Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$3.7B
EBITDA	$3.9B
EPS	$18.35
F Score	5
FCF	$2.9B
FCF EV Yield	1.77x
FCF Per Share	$8.43
Financing CF	-4,325,000,000
Fiscal Year End	June
Founded	1,970
Goodwill	4,321,000,000
Graham Number	107.62079
Graham Upside	-77.58
Income Tax	$524M
Investing CF	-388,000,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Last Report Date	2026-04-03
Last Split Date	1997-06-04
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2025-08-14
Lynch Fair Value	$459
Lynch Upside	-4.45
Ma150	238.5
Ma150ch	101.28%
Ma20	408.7
Ma20ch	17.43%
Net CF	-1,427,000,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-29
Open	475.1
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	56.95
P OCF Ratio	50.35
Payment Date	2026-06-17
Position In Range	74.48
Post Close	480
Postmarket Change Percent	0.15
Postmarket Price	$481
Ppne	2,549,000,000
Pre Close	463.9
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$42.12
Ptbv Ratio	30.87
Relative Volume	1.02x
Revenue	11,777,000,000x
SBC By Revenue	1.73x
Share Based Comp	204,000,000
Tax By Revenue	4.45x
Tax Rate	7.48%
Tr20y	3,613.52%
Tr6m	194.94%
Us State	California
Views	366
Volume	7,929,877
Z Score	7.6

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Decision checkpoints

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Risk gate

Named kill scenarios are reviewed before any bullish rating can stand.

Moat score

3/10

Business quality stays separate from stock attractiveness.

Forward P/E

27.6x

Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.

Next action

Sell

Final action steps are kept in the recommendation tab.

Our take

Income

WDC dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+0.1%

$0.60 annual per share

Payout ratio

+2.7%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

-24.2%

0 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+1.2%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-06-05

Performance

WDC stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns WDC?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+97.3%

Float: +99.3% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.5%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

WDC momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

76.3

Above 70: short-term overbought

Price vs 200-day MA

+138.8%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

2.16

More volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

4.12

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

WDC vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
BKR	Baker Hughes Company	63.4B	20.4x	2.3x	15.0%	+6.8%	+79.0%	비중 축소
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	매도
COP	ConocoPhillips	138.7B	19.4x	2.3x	9.0%	+21.1%	+34.3%	적극 매수
LITE	Lumentum Holdings Inc.	64.8B	171.8x	26.0x	8.3%	+7.7%	+1264.4%	비중 축소

Questions

About WDC

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What is the current WDC stock rating?

Western Digital Corporation is currently shown with Sell in the latest report. The hub links directly to the full analysis surface where the rating, fair-value bridge, risks, and scorecard are documented together.

Where can I read the full WDC analysis?

The full report lives at /stocks/WDC/analysis. The bare ticker page is a product hub that summarizes the latest read and sends readers into the relocated analysis tabs without making the analysis surface depend on the hub.

What fair-value range is used for WDC?

The latest report frames WDC around $143 to $297. Treat that range as the entry point, then check the valuation, sensitivity, and bear-case tabs before making an investment decision.

How often is the WDC page updated?

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