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Western Digital (WDC)

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$75.88 USD

75.88
883,158

+2.34 (3.18%)

Updated May 23, 2024 10:18 AM ET

Zacks Rank:

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Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy24.08%
2Buy17.91%
3Hold9.44%
4Sell5.10%
5Strong Sell2.55%
S&P50011.04%

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2-Buy of 5   2      

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The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

Value Score A
Growth Score A
Momentum Score A
VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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D Value D Growth B Momentum D VGM

Industry Rank:

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An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 11% (28 out of 249)

Industry: Computer- Storage Devices

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Zacks News

Western Digital Corporation, headquartered in Irvine, CA, is one of the largest hard disk drive (HDD) producers in the U.S. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of HDDs used in desktop PCs, servers, network-attached storage devices, video game consoles, digital video recorders and a host of other consumer electronic devices. The acquisition of SanDisk enabled the company to venture into the flash drive storage technology space. Western Digital mainly competes with companies like Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Seagate Technology and Toshiba Corporation. The company competes with other hard drive manufacturers with offerings in the desktop, notebook, enterprise computer, consumer electronic devices and external storage markets.

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                Why the Earnings Streak Will Continue for Western Digital (WDC)

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                  Toshiba Sues Western Digital, Demands 120B Yen in Damages

                  by Zacks Equity Research

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                        Toshiba Favors Bain Consortium Bid, Foxconn Still Interested

                        by Zacks Equity Research

                        Foxconn reiterated its interest in Toshiba's (TOSYY) chip unit, which the Japanese conglomerate jointly runs with Western Digital (WDC).

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                                  by Zacks Equity Research

                                  Western Digital (WDC) filed an injunction appeal to block the sale of Toshiba's flash memory unit.

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                                            Tech Roundup: WDC-Toshiba Row, MSFT Surface, AAPL-NOK Settle

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                                              Western Digital (WDC) Launches 64-Layer 3D NAND-based SSDs

                                              by Zacks Equity Research

                                              Western Digital Corp (WDC) recently announced the launch of the world???s first client solid state drives (SSDs) built with its 64-layer 3D NAND technology.

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