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Western Digital Corporation is a computer hardware business based in the US. Western Digital Corporation shares (WDC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $263.78 – a decrease of 33.29% over the previous week. Western Digital Corporation employs 40,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $14.5 billion.
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| Latest market close | $263.78 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $132.18 - $799.61 |
| 50-day moving average | $414.74 |
| 200-day moving average | $420.70 |
| Wall St. target price | $613.38 |
| PE ratio | 9.4136 |
| Dividend yield | $0.55 (0.17%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $28.43 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $267.63 from 2026-11-05
| 1 week (2026-10-27) | N/A |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2026-10-07) | -33.99% |
| 3 months (2026-08-07) | -38.38% |
| 6 months (2026-05-07) | -42.31% |
| 1 year (2025-11-07) | 64.24% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2024-11-07) | 279.94% |
| 3 years (2023-11-07) | 521.10% |
| 5 years (2021-11-05) | 376.38% |
Valuing Western Digital Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Western Digital Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Western Digital Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 9x. In other words, Western Digital Corporation shares trade at around 9x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Western Digital Corporation's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.4645. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Western Digital Corporation's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Western Digital Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $6.3 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Western Digital Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $14.5 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 47.68% |
| Gross profit TTM | $7.6 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 25.88% |
| Return on equity TTM | 129.6% |
| Profit margin | 69.2% |
| Book value | $25.00 |
| Market Capitalization | $100.2 billion |
| EBITDA | $6.3 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 4.63% of net profits
Recently Western Digital Corporation has paid out, on average, around 4.63% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.26% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Western Digital Corporation shareholders could enjoy a 0.26% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Western Digital Corporation's case, that would currently equate to about $0.55 per share.
While Western Digital Corporation's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Western Digital Corporation is investing more in its future growth.
Western Digital Corporation's most recent dividend payout was on 16 December 2026. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 3 December 2026 (the "ex-dividend date").
Western Digital Corporation's shares were split on a 1323:1000 basis on 23 February 2025 . So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1323 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Western Digital Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 24.4% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Western Digital Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted Western Digital Corporation's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Western Digital Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $132.1834 up to $799.6133. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Western Digital Corporation's is 2.344. This would suggest that Western Digital Corporation's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.
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