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Western Digital Corporation (WDC) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Western Digital designs and manufactures data-storage hardware, from hard-disk drives for computers and data centres to external, portable and network-attached storage for home and office use. It sells through direct sales staff, dealers, distributors and retailers across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

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Our record on WDC

Every scored call, pick and trade this diary has made on Western Digital Corporation, with the outcome where it is known.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for WDC, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-11-05

DayWeekMonth3 months
WDC−17.4%−32.3%−34.0%−38.4%
Storage−17.6%−35.7%−45.1%—
Rubin Build-Out 100−9.9%−19.2%−31.3%—

Against the index: 13.1 pts behind on the week, 2.7 pts behind on the month; against its Storage sleeve 11.1 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 24 pieces · newest: Midday 10, “Oil — Brent −6.5% on Iran Talks Lifts Stocks; Amazon +5%, Oracle −6% on a $20 Billion Raise” (2026-11-02)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where WDC appears in the diary — 24 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

101 and glossary

Dailies

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 44/100 · S&P 500 fund at 48, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-05
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 73th percentile of the window, -21.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-04
  • Sovereign pressure Index -2.05 · down 2.95 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-05
How it trades on rate days beta 0.09 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How WDC has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.09 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Western Digital Corporation moved 0.09% on average · correlation 0.01 · higher than 11% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months −1.60 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.70% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −4.94% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Storage · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Storage

Curated competitor set — who the market prices this name against, not just who shares its sector.

Compared against WDC on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Western Digital Corporation

WDC in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Western Digital designs and manufactures data-storage hardware, from hard-disk drives for computers and data centres to external, portable and network-attached storage for home and office use. It sells through direct sales staff, dealers, distributors and retailers across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. It has also begun working with Open Quantum Design on error-correction technology for quantum computing, a small step outside its core storage business. It is based in San Jose, California.
Where it sits in the stack
Western Digital carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index, so the diary places it in the storage sleeve of our wider universe, alongside the other hard-disk and memory names that supply capacity to data centres and devices rather than compute itself.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group prices it against Seagate, Sandisk, Micron and NetApp, the set the market treats as its storage comparison rather than the broader semiconductor bucket; Kioxia is the further name investors sometimes add to that comparison.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It sits in the Nasdaq-100 and carries a Closelooknet score, where the quality module reads strongest and valuation reads weakest. Its research diary mentions come from a market-structure note on regrouping the semiconductor bucket, a roadmap piece that lists it on a storage watchlist, and a Morning 10 that tracks it against SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron in a memory-by-geography comparison.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether Western Digital keeps moving with the memory names such as Micron and Sandisk when DRAM pricing swings, or starts trading on its own storage-specific demand instead.

Western Digital Corporation (WDC) trades on US exchanges, classified under Technology, and sits in Layer 3 of the build-out stack. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 56/100 composite (momentum 23, quality 86, valuation 48) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: WDC news on the tape · index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 2 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Argus, 2026-10-26 · last print 2026-10-22

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for WDC from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Argus — target 500 from 600 Target cut to $500 from $600 (+45.4% to spot) 2026-10-26
  • Price target Morgan Stanley — target 643 from 676 Target cut to $643 from $676 (+82.6% to spot) 2026-10-20
  • Latest print EPS 4.64 against 4.11 expected — a +12.9% beat 2026-10-22

2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.05%, annual · buybacks 2.59 bn USD in FY2026

Dividends and capital return

What WDC pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.13 USD per share · a 0.05% yield on the 2026-11-05 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-11-05
  • Change on the year −37.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.20 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.13 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2025-12-04
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.33 USD (partial) first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-06-04
  • Dividends paid, FY2026 184 m USD 4% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2026 2.59 bn USD 1.7% of today's market value
  • Share count +6.7% in FY2026 204 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 2.78 bn USD · 79% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-06

Quick answers

What is Western Digital Corporation (WDC)?

Western Digital Corporation trades as WDC on the US exchange and is classified under Technology in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-06.

Is WDC in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Western Digital Corporation is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-11-06.

What is Western Digital Corporation's Closelooknet composite score?

56 out of 100, with momentum 23, quality 86 and valuation 48 sub-scores, as of 2026-11-06. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does WDC trade against its moving averages?

Western Digital Corporation trades 21.9% below its 50-day and 22.3% below its 200-day moving average (11.4% below its 20-day). As of 2026-11-04 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is WDC doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Western Digital Corporation is −34.0% against −31.3% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 2.7 points behind its index, as of 2026-11-05. Its Storage sleeve is −45.1% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Western Digital Corporation compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Storage), Western Digital Corporation (WDC) sits 59.5% below its 52-week high, 21.9% below its 50-day average; Seagate Technology PLC (STX) is 59.2% below, Sandisk Corp (SNDK) is 51.1% below, Micron Technology Inc (MU) is 36.6% below, as of 2026-11-04. Put any of them next to WDC in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Western Digital Corporation trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Western Digital Corporation had a beta of 0.09 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 11% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.70% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-05; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Western Digital Corporation?

Western Digital Corporation appears in 24 Closelooknet pieces as of 2026-11-06, most recently Midday 10: Oil — Brent −6.5% on Iran Talks Lifts Stocks; Amazon +5%, Oracle −6% on a $20 Billion Raise (2026-11-02); Midday 10: Chips — the open follows Seoul, then turns: chip index from −2.4% to +0.7%; small caps +1.6% (2026-10-20); Morning 10: Fed — minutes point to another rate hike by year-end; Samsung earns a record $80 billion in one quarter (2026-10-08). What Closelooknet said most recently: In New York the storage names gave back their pre-market gains of 2.5% to 2.8%: Seagate is down 4.7% at 614.45, Western Digital 3.9% at 351.98 and SanDisk 2.4% at 1,123.34. (Midday 10, 2026-11-02). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Western Digital Corporation do?

Western Digital designs and manufactures data-storage hardware, from hard-disk drives for computers and data centres to external, portable and network-attached storage for home and office use. It sells through direct sales staff, dealers, distributors and retailers across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. It has also begun working with Open Quantum Design on error-correction technology for quantum computing, a small step outside its core storage business. Closelooknet's peer group prices it against Seagate, Sandisk, Micron and NetApp, the set the market treats as its storage comparison rather than the broader semiconductor bucket; Kioxia is the further name investors sometimes add to that comparison. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does Western Digital Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Western Digital carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index, so the diary places it in the storage sleeve of our wider universe, alongside the other hard-disk and memory names that supply capacity to data centres and devices rather than compute itself. It sits in the Nasdaq-100 and carries a Closelooknet score, where the quality module reads strongest and valuation reads weakest. Its research diary mentions come from a market-structure note on regrouping the semiconductor bucket, a roadmap piece that lists it on a storage watchlist, and a Morning 10 that tracks it against SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron in a memory-by-geography comparison. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does Western Digital Corporation pay a dividend?

Western Digital Corporation has paid 0.13 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 0.05% on the 2026-11-05 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.13 USD on 2025-12-04. In fiscal 2026 the company paid 184 m USD in dividends and bought back 2.59 bn USD of its own shares, 79% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 6.7% over the fiscal year. As of 2026-11-05; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Western Digital Corporation recently?

The most recent analyst action on Western Digital Corporation on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Argus on 2026-10-26 (target 500 from 600). 2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 target changes. Its latest earnings print on the wire, 2026-10-22: EPS 4.64 against 4.11 expected — a +12.9% beat. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

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