What does the company do?
Western Digital Corporation (WD) designs, develops, manufactures and sells hard drives. The Company sells its products worldwide to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) for use in computer systems, subsystems or consumer electronics (CE) devices, and to distributors, resellers and retailers. Its hard drives are used in desktop computers, notebook computers, and enterprise applications, such as servers, workstations, network attached storage, storage area networks and video surveillance equipment. Additionally, its hard drives are used in CE applications, such as digital video recorders (DVRs), and satellite and cable set-top boxes (STBs). WD also sells its hard drives as stand-alone storage products and integrates them into finished enclosures, embedding application software and offering the products as WD-branded external storage appliances. On March 27, 2009, it completed the acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc.
How much does the company sell and earn?
Investors need to know how much stuff or services a company sells, and how much of that total it keeps as income (or profit) to grow its business or return to shareholders. The more of each, the better. In general, look for companies that sell and earn more than peers.
- Western Digital one-year sales: 7.55 Bil.
Difference from the average for the Data Storage Devices group: -22.04% - Western Digital one-year income: 547.00 Mil.
Difference from the average for the Data Storage Devices group: 116.55%| Sales & Income (past 12 months) | Company | Industry |
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| Sales | 7.55 Bil | 9.69 Bil | | Income | 547.00 Mil | 252.59 Mil |
How fast is the company growing?
- Western Digital one-year sales growth: 4.70%.
- Western Digital one-year income growth: 36.50%.
Difference from the average for the Data Storage Devices group: 24.80 pct. pts.| Sales & Income Growth (past 12 months) | Company | Industry |
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| Sales Growth | 4.70% | -2.10% | | Income Growth | 36.50% | 11.70% |
How profitable is the company?
Investors prefer companies that increase profit margins -- the percentage of sales that they keep -- every year. This is accomplished either by lowering expenses or raising prices. Look for companies that consistently find ways to squeeze more profits out of sales than their peers.
- Western Digital one-year net profit margin: 7.2%
Difference from the company's 5-year average net profit margin: -1.4 pct. pts.
Difference from the average for the Data Storage Devices group: 6.1 pct. pts.
| Net profit margins (%) |
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| Company | 7.2% | | Company 5-Yr Avg. | 8.6% | | Industry | 1.1% |
How is the company's financial health?
The debt/equity ratio shows how much a firm has borrowed as a percentage of its stock equity. The lower, the better.
- Western Digital debt/equity ratio: 0.13.
Difference from the average for the Data Storage Devices group: -66.67%.
| | Company | Industry |
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| Debt/equity ratio | 0.13 | 0.39 |
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