In recent trading session, Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC) saw 0.92 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.47. Company’s recent per share price level of $49.22 trading at $0.02 or 0.05% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $17.17B. That most recent trading price of WDC’s stock is at a discount of -25.19% from its 52-week high price of $61.62 and is indicating a premium of 41.43% from its 52-week low price of $28.83. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 7.17 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 8.88 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Western Digital Corp (WDC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.50. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 19 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 3 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 16 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 1.44 in the current quarter.
Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC) trade information
Upright in the green today for gaining 0.05%, in the last five days WDC remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Tuesday, 05/13/25 when the stock touched $49.22 price level, adding 1.3% to its value on the day. Western Digital Corp’s shares saw a change of 9.25% in year-to-date performance and have moved 11.12% in past 5-day. Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC) showed a performance of 37.00% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 29.81 million shares which calculate 2.91 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 65 to the stock, which implies a rise of 24.28% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 50 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 82. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -1.58% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -1.58% for stock’s current value.
Western Digital Corp (WDC) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -27.92% from the last financial year’s standing.
18 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 2.44B for the same. And 16 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 2.48B in the next quarter. Company posted 3.76B and 4.09B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -0.24% during past 5 years.
WDC Dividends
Western Digital Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-29 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 0.00%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.00 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 3.23%.
Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.71% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 104.61 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 105.36%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 104.61% institutions for Western Digital Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at WDC for having 38.83 million shares of worth $2.94 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 11.6601 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 28.09 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.434 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $2.13 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Fidelity Select Portfolios-Semiconductors Portfolio are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 10.8 shares of worth $531.05 million or 3.10% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 10.23 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $502.83 million in the company or a holder of 2.93% of company’s stock.
