Western Digital Corporation
WDC
NASDAQ56.81
Western Digital Corporation
NASDAQ:WDC
RECENT
PRICE
56.81
P/E
RATIO
9.84
(PEG:0.02)
P/E RATIO
RELATIVE
TO S&P
0.38
DIV
YLD
0.00%
High:
Low:
0
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0
0
0
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Legends
Stock price
1.42 Beta (1.0 Market)
0
0
0
0
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% total return 05/22:
Stock
S&P
1y.
0
0
3y.
0
0
5y.
0
0
0
Percent shares traded:
0
0
0
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
TTM
Fiscal year
20.19
1.84
0.46
- -
24.96
2.58
1.34
- -
36.53
3.92
3.55
- -
33.57
2.12
3.54
- -
43.20
6.06
5.29
- -
41.24
3.14
3.80
- -
51.78
6.69
9.75
- -
63.70
4.07
8.99
0.75
64.38
6.88
9.31
1.10
62.81
6.31
7.03
1.71
54.37
1.01
5.85
1.94
66.30
1.38
9.93
1.99
69.52
2.27
11.35
2.00
56.74
(2.58)
2.30
2.00
56.16
(0.84)
0.59
2.00
55.48
2.69
2.47
- -
61.84
5.89
4.55
- -
Revenue per share
Earnings per share
Free Cash Flow per sh
Dividends per share
1.40
5.38
1.48
7.84
2.78
12.20
2.34
14.38
3.23
20.65
3.37
23.76
2.98
31.82
3.95
32.75
2.67
37.63
2.64
39.74
2.44
46.63
2.01
39.65
2.81
38.82
3.00
34.13
2.17
32.05
3.76
35.15
3.76
37.13
CAPEX per share
Book Value per share
215
219
221
222
228
231
241
241
235
232
239
288
297
292
298
305
310
Comm.Shares outs.(m)
10.7
0.6
- -
8.4
0.5
- -
6.6
0.3
- -
12.8
0.2
- -
5.7
0.3
- -
10.4
0.6
- -
5.6
0.4
- -
15.0
0.9
1.2%
13.6
0.7
1.2%
13.6
0.7
2.0%
49.7
2.2
3.9%
60.9
2.6
2.4%
31.1
1.2
2.8%
(19.7)
(0.8)
3.9%
(55.3)
(1.5)
4.3%
23.6
0.8
- -
9.8
0.4
- -
Avg. annual P/E ratio
P/E relative to S&P500
Avg. annual div. yield
Capital Structure (1/4/22 | Q1)
Total liabilities
$13,715 m.
Total assets
$25,699 m.
Long-term debt
$7,087 m.
Cash and equiv.
$2,505 m.
Goodwill $10,061 m.
Retained earnings $8,738 m.
Common stock 312 m. shares
Market Capitalisation
$17,791 m. (as of 21/5/22)
9,526
8.2%
12,478
14.2%
15,351
8.2%
15,130
11.8%
14,572
11.1%
12,994
3.6%
19,093
10.2%
20,647
17.5%
16,569
0.5%
16,736
2.0%
16,922
7.2%
19,185
12.9%
Revenue (m)
Operating margin
602
726
825
1,612
1,233
980
1,244
1,617
1,114
1,465
1,154
242
2,128
397
2,056
675
1,812
(754)
1,566
(250)
1,212
821
959
1,821
Depreciation (m)
Net profit (m)
6.9%
7.6%
8.3%
12.9%
19.8%
6.4%
7.7%
10.7%
7.1%
10.1%
(58.2)%
1.9%
48.4%
2.1%
67.6%
3.3%
(162.7)%
(4.6)%
(443.5)%
(1.5)%
11.4%
4.9%
28.0%
9.2%
Income tax rate
Net profit margin
3,317
150
5,488
3,109
1,955
7,669
3,625
1,725
7,893
4,875
2,313
8,842
5,275
2,156
9,219
5,635
13,660
11,145
6,712
12,918
11,418
6,182
10,993
11,531
4,660
10,246
9,967
4,642
9,289
9,551
4,887
8,474
10,721
4,781
7,087
11,984
Working capital (m)
Long-term debt (m)
Equity (m)
12.2%
9.6%
13.2%
15.7%
12.3%
21.0%
9.4%
8.4%
12.4%
13.6%
11.1%
18.3%
12.0%
10.2%
15.9%
2.6%
1.3%
2.2%
3.3%
5.4%
3.5%
3.6%
9.4%
5.9%
2.1%
0.7%
(7.6)%
(10.9)%
(1.7)%
(2.6)%
5.2%
4.8%
7.7%
8.5%
9.7%
15.2%
ROIC
Return on capital
Return on equity
Working Capital
2019
2020
2021
Cash assets
3,455
3,048
3,370
Receivables
1,204
2,379
2,257
Inventory
3,283
3,070
3,616
Other
535
551
514
Current assets
8,477
9,048
9,757
Acc. Payable
1,898
2,352
2,332
Debt due
276
286
251
Other
1,643
1,768
2,287
Current liab.
3,817
4,406
4,870
100.0%
(0.9)%
100.0%
22.6%
81.5%
47.2%
84.0%
49.1%
73.0%
83.8%
(91.7)%
37.5%
(44.6)%
20.1%
12.1%
35.1%
177.5%
- -
338.0%
- -
100.0%
- -
100.0%
- -
Plowback ratio
Div.&Repurch. to FCF
Western Digital Corporation (US) started trading on January 4, 1991 (cik: 0000106040), operates in the Technology sector (Computer Hardware industry), has 65,600 full-time employees, and is led by Mr. Stephen Milligan. Western Digital Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, rest of Asia, and internationally. It offers client devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, such as desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), smart video systems, gaming consoles, and set top boxes; flash-based embedded storage products for mobile phones, tablets, notebook PCs, and other portable and wearable devices, as well as automotive, Internet of Things, industrial, and connected home applications; and flash-based memory wafers. The company also provides data center devices and solutions comprising enterprise helium hard drives; enterprise SSDs consisting of flash-based SSDs and software solutions for use in enterprise servers, online transactions, data analysis, and other enterprise applications; data center solutions for data storage systems and tiered storage models; and data storage platforms. In addition, it offers client solutions, such as external HDD storage products in mobile and desktop form; client portable SSDs; removable cards that are used in consumer devices comprising mobile phones, tablets, imaging systems, and cameras and smart video systems; universal serial bus flash drives for use in the computing and consumer markets; and wireless drive products used in-field back up of created content, as well as wireless streaming of high-definition movies, photos, music, and documents to tablets, smartphones, and PCs. The company sells its products under the G-Technology, SanDisk, and WD brands to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, dealers, resellers, and retailers. Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Annual rates
(avg rate of change)
Past
5 y.
Past
10 y.
Revenues
-2.37%
4.95%
Cash flow
47.26%
27.43%
Earnings
-159.23%
-71.11%
Dividends
- -
- -
Book value
-1.12%
4.23%
Insider trading
Type
Shares
Date
Zamiska Gene M.
Sale
4,776
05/04/22
Ray Michael Charles
InKind
3,912
04/22/22
Sivaram Srinivasan
InKind
12,372
04/22/22
Goeckeler David
Exempt
1,246
03/09/22
Goeckeler David
InKind
49,777
03/09/22
Fiscal Year Ends
Quarterly Revenue (m)
Full fiscal year
I
II
III
IV
2020
4,040
4,234
4,175
4,287
16,736
2021
3,922
3,943
4,137
4,920
16,922
2022
4,381
4,833
- -
- -
- -
Fiscal Year Ends
Earnings per share
Full fiscal year
I
II
III
IV
2020
(0.93)
(0.47)
0.06
0.50
-0.84
2021
(0.20)
0.20
0.65
2.04
2.69
2022
0.08
1.81
- -
- -
- -
Fiscal Year Ends
Quarterly dividends paid
Full fiscal year
I
II
III
IV
2020
0.49
0.50
0.50
0.50
2.00
2021
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
2022
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
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