Western Digital Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:WDC)

15 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Western Digital in the last twelve months. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" WDC shares.
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15 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Western Digital's shares. Their WDC share price targets range from $36.00 to $60.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $49.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.6% from the stock's current price.
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Western Digital's stock was trading at $31.55 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, WDC shares have increased by 50.0% and is now trading at $47.31.
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Western Digital saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 16,160,000 shares, an increase of 89.2% from the October 31st total of 8,540,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,650,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.5 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 30th 2024.
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Western Digital Co. (NASDAQ:WDC) released its earnings results on Monday, October, 30th. The data storage provider reported ($1.76) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($1.91) by $0.15. The data storage provider had revenue of $2.75 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $2.66 billion. Western Digital had a negative net margin of 21.34% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.01%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 26.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned ($0.02) EPS.
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Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.00%.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) stock in their portfolio include Global X Data Center REITs & Digital Infrastructure ETF (VPN), Fidelity Cloud Computing ETF (FCLD), Invesco S&P 500 Pure Value ETF (RPV), Columbia Seligman Semiconductor and Technology ETF (SEMI), Invesco ESG NASDAQ Next Gen 100 ETF (QQJG), IQ U.S. Mid Cap R&D Leaders ETF (MRND), Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Technology ETF (RSPT) and Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Technology ETF (RYT).

Western Digital updated its second quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Monday, October, 30th. The company provided EPS guidance of -$1.35--$1.05 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of -$1.39. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.85 billion-$3.05 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.92 billion.

70 employees have rated Western Digital Chief Executive Officer David Goeckeler on Glassdoor.com. David Goeckeler has an approval rating of 84% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Western Digital investors own include Micron Technology (MU), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Intel (INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Netflix (NFLX), Visa (V), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Gilead Sciences (GILD).

Western Digital's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Nomura Holdings Inc. (4.15%), DnB Asset Management AS (1.59%), Northern Trust Corp (1.02%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.94%), Legal & General Group Plc (0.83%) and Maple Rock Capital Partners Inc. (0.77%). Insiders that own company stock include Gene M Zamiska, Lori S Sundberg, Michael Charles Ray, Paula A Price, Robert Soderbery and Srinivasan Sivaram.
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