Putting The Spotlight On Western Digital Corp (WDC)

Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 8.84M but it saw 3602644 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 15.62B USD, the company’s current market price of $44.90 came rising about 1.26 while comparing to the previous closing price of $44.34. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $61.62 and as low as $39.42. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $44.15 while lowest mark touched by it was $45.4175.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Western Digital Corp (WDC) gives us an average price of $45.76, while its current price level is -27.14% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 13.92% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $47.94 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $50.22. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.97% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.39%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 46.00 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, WDC’s stock price is moving 4.52% up while it is -17.51% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -0.35% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -0.62%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Jan-28, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.12 while estimate for next year EPS is 4.5. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.34B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $9.3B and seeing the company making $9.85B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.7B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Western Digital Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 348.00M with 0.67% of that held by the insiders while 98.97% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 7.46% and return on equity (ROE) at 13.99%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 10.71 while having a 8.32 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.35. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.29 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.00. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.23% on average.