Western Digital (WDC)
Technology · NASDAQ · US
Price as at 10 Aug 2026, 21:51 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Western Digital trades at $438.34, which is 47% below the $643.72 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 89 out of 100, which is a wide moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 34.8 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
WDC dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.275 | 2 |
| 2025 | $0.325 | 3 |
| 2020 | $0.756 | 2 |
| 2019 | $1.13 | 3 |
| 2018 | $1.51 | 4 |
| 2017 | $1.51 | 4 |
| 2016 | $1.51 | 4 |
| 2015 | $1.51 | 4 |
| 2014 | $1.13 | 4 |
| 2013 | $0.794 | 4 |
| 2012 | $0.378 | 2 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
WDC earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 26 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Western Digital
Western Digital Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of data storage devices and solutions based on hard disk drive (HDD) technology in the United States, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers internal HDDs, data center drives, data center platforms, external drives, portable drives, NAS for home and office, and accessories. It sells its data storage devices and solutions through its computer sales personnel, dealers, distributors, retailers, and subsidiaries. The company has a collaboration with Open Quantum Design for the development of quantum error correction technology and related systems to advance reliable quantum computing. Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
WDC passes 6 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
18 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$1.88B · 0.7% of book
- Capital Research Global, Capital Research Global Investors$895.13M · 0.1% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$727.14M · 0.4% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$420.20M · 0.1% of book
- Renaissance Technologies, RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$343.29M · 0.5% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is Western Digital (WDC) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $643.72, WDC at $438.34 is 47% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own WDC?
18 of the institutions we track reported a position in WDC in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is WDC's P/E ratio?
WDC trades at 34.8 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Western Digital (WDC) pay a dividend?
Yes. Western Digital yields 0.10% at the current share price. It has paid $0.400 per share over the trailing twelve months. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its WDC data?
Fundamentals for WDC come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NASDAQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 10 Aug 2026, 21:51 UTC and is delayed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.