Western Digital Corp (WDC): Not A Time To Panic Nor Freeze

Western Digital Corp (WDC) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $65.78, with 7.12 million shares of worth about $468.57 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 43.42% during that period and on July 02, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 3.04%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 349.00M shares, out of which, 345.47M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 5.16% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 26.04%. Year-to-date (YTD), WDC shares are showing a performance of 14.89% which increased to 45.99% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $28.83 but also hit the highest price of $64.34 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Western Digital Corp shares is 7.83 million. The stock is currently trading 11.03% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 27.19% for SMA50 and it goes to 34.98% higher than SMA200.

Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ: WDC) currently have 349.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 103.29% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $22.95B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.58. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 12.51, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.26 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 1.31 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.49. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for WDC, volatility over the week remained 2.44% while standing at 2.64% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 3464.07% while it is estimated to increase by 8.58% in next year.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by JP Morgan on May 01, 2025 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $57 to it. Coverage by TD Cowen stated Western Digital Corp (WDC) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on May 01, 2025, suggesting a price target of $58 for the stock. On April 30, 2025, Summit Insights Upgrade their recommendations, while on April 16, 2025, Morgan Stanley Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $46. Stock get a Buy rating from The Benchmark Company on April 10, 2025.

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