How is Western Digital (WDC) doing?
Western Digital is a company in the computer hardware industry, based in San Jose, CA, worth $136.9B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Strong
Western Digital shares are up 228% over the past year, 183 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Bellwether. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 99th percentile on market beat, the 99th on staying power and the 88th on business growth. It appears on 13 of our dashboards.
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Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Bellwether
Beating the market, steadily, with a growing business and buyers adding. Everything is lined up.
Bellwether since Aug; Distribution Top before that.
Also Bellwether (93 in all): LITE · MU · STX · CIEN · AMD · LRCX
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Semis & hardware, 54 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Chipmakers and the gear that builds them — the AI-cycle epicentre.
Western Digital is +228% over the past year, against +84% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 5th of 54 in Semis & hardware.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual Western Digital typically moves 6.7% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 98% of large US stocks.
WDC on our dashboards
Every question where Western Digital appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with WDC highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| How much are stocks swinging? Market health | 79Choppy | 60 of 60 | Daily move now 4.0% · Usual 4.7% · 1M change −14% |
| How far are stocks from their highs? Market health | 88Growing | 23 of 60 | Below high −47% · Days since high 78 · 1Y change +228% |
| What are this year’s biggest winners and losers? What’s leading | 97Top | 15 of 60 | This year +131% · vs S&P +116 pts · Past month −14% |
| How much do stocks move on earnings? Earnings | 87Big mover | 53 of 60 | Reports 2026-10-29 · Typical move 8.4% · Largest 18% |
| Who beats estimates every quarter? Earnings | 9412 in a row | 31 of 60 | Run 12 · EPS beats 12 of 12 · Sales beats 7 of 12 |
| Is the market rewarding earnings beats? Earnings | –Beat | 17 of 60 | Surprise +8% · Move vs S&P −17.3% · Reported 2026-08-05 |
| Which companies do analysts expect to grow fastest? Earnings | 97Fast | 14 of 60 | EPS growth +61% · This year 20.39 · Next year 32.76 |
| Which stocks show persistent price growth and business growth? Leading stocks | 95Excellent | 7 of 60 | Pressure 62 · 1Y +228% |
| Which stocks keep winning? Leading stocks | 9632 of 52 wks | 21 of 60 | vs S&P, 1Y +212 pts · Rank steadiness 99 · P3 score 95 |
| Who is beating its rivals? Leading stocks | 99Ahead | 8 of 60 | 3M −38 pts · 1Y +212 pts · Rivals STX, MU, SNDK |
| Whose profit margins are widening? Business quality | 95Widening | 22 of 60 | Change, 1Y +11.8 pts · Operating margin 35% · Gross margin 49% |
| Which stocks are cheaper than their rivals? Value | 94Cheaper | 27 of 60 | P/E 16.0x · Rivals’ P/E 35.1x · Growth gap −162 pts |
| Which companies have more cash than debt? Value | 85Net cash | 58 of 60 | Net cash $1.6B · % of value +1% · Debt payback 0.6 yrs |
Go deeper on Stox
WDC’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see WDC’s full profile on Stox.
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