WDC · Technology
What a holder would want to know before buying WDC: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 251% above the lowest point of the past year and 47% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 54% of days and more expensive on 46%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 96% of days.
2% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more 4 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 73%; the longest took 7.4 years to get back to its peak. 3 of 4 have recovered so far.
It is in one now: 47% below the Jun 2026 peak.
Western Digital Corporation · Technology · Computer Hardware · a large company worth $148.71B
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…
revenue profit
Sales of $12.92B in 2026, with $9.30B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 73 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Generates more free cash in a year ($2.27B) than it owes in total ($1.19B).
You pay $15 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $12 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 0.15% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Sep 8.
26 analysts: 21 say buy, 5 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $670.79 (range $420.00–$1,050.00).
Insiders made 0 purchases and 20 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.
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