Stock · WDC · Technology
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1987 · Revenue 12 mo. $14.5B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Western Digital Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of data storage devices and solutions based on hard disk drive (HDD) technology in the United States, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Western Digital Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of data storage devices and solutions based on hard disk drive (HDD) technology in the United States, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers internal HDDs, data center drives, data center platforms, external drives, portable drives, NAS for home and office, and accessories. It sells its data storage devices and solutions through its computer sales personnel, dealers, distributors, retailers, and subsidiaries. The company has a collaboration with Open Quantum Design for the development of quantum error correction technology and related systems to advance reliable quantum computing. Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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Summary
52.2 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €3.2B (2026), it supports €35B. The remaining €60.8B of the market value assume it grows 14.0% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
14.0%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 20.8×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 14 quarters: 7.7× to 29.3×, median 16.2×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
2 more unchanged: Net debt, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 106.32% | 14.60% | Rank 98 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 115.06% | 29.77% | Rank 83 |
| EBIT margin | 34.47% | 17.40% | Rank 87 |
| FCF margin | 27.18% | 18.54% | Rank 76 |
| Gross margin | 48.85% | 48.47% | Rank 51 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 35.70% | 12.70% | Rank 89 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per yeardoes not count towards the rank | – | 9.54% | |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 56.07% | 14.07% | Rank 94 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 3.24% | 2.87% | Rank 56 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 9.33% | 2.64% | Rank 96 |
| FCF yield | 3.29% | 3.06% | Rank 52 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 8.22 | 5.18 | Rank 32 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 23.86 | 26.24 | Rank 58 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 51.63% | −0.59% | Rank 89 |
| Share price, 6 months | −44.56% | −4.46% | Rank 7 |
| Share price, 3 months | −34.13% | −5.84% | Rank 8 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −64.65% | −33.23% | Rank 4 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 42.52% | 1.65% | Rank 5 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 6.69% | −0.17% | Rank 7 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 8 | Rank 18 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −2.48% | −1.57% | Rank 44 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 63.95% | 53.98% | Rank 71 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | −0.05 | −0.20 | Rank 47 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.12 | 0.33 | Rank 72 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 81.06% | 50.37% | Rank 10 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 19.1 | 10.2% | $2.9B | 296M | $6.8B |
| 2018 | 20.6 | 17.5% | $3.4B | 307M | $6.2B |
| 2019 | 16.6 | 0.5% | $790.0M | 292M | $7.1B |
| 2020 | 16.7 | 2.0% | $177.0M | 298M | $6.5B |
| 2021 | 16.9 | 7.2% | $895.0M | 309M | $5.4B |
| 2022 | 18.8 | 12.7% | $773.0M | 316M | $4.7B |
| 2023 | 6.3 | −8.8% | −$1.2B | 318M | $6.5B |
| 2024 | 6.3 | −6.4% | −$781.0M | 326M | $6.3B |
| 2025 | 9.5 | 24.5% | $1.3B | 359M | $3.0B |
| 2026 | 12.9 | 34.5% | $3.5B | 383M | −$527.0M |
6 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Western Digital Corporation mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Western Digital Corporation is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
6 of 7 rules met
10 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Western Digital Corporation.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 10.7 | 35.1 |
| P/B ratio | 11.4 | 5.5 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 106.3% | 14.6% |
| Equity ratio | 63.9% | 54.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.12 | 0.33 |
| Dividend yield | 0.2% | 0.9% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| WDC | Western Digital Corporationthis page | |
| SNDK | Sandisk Corp | High9.1 |
| P | Everpure, Inc. | Low2.7 |
| ANET | Arista Networks | High7.3 |
| DELL | Dell Technologies Inc | locked |
| STX | Seagate Technology PLC | locked |
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