Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for WDC in the last 90 days.
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Western Digital (WDC) Stock Analysis & Forecast
$441.36+17.49 (+4.1%)
Close on Sep 18, 2026. Page updated Sep 19, 9:18 pm ET.
Gekko Brief
AI summaryWestern Digital closes at $441.36, up 4.1%, with the price sitting between its 50-day average of $481.71 and 200-day average of $385.87. The GekkoIndex reads 62.9, placing the stock in the Accumulation zone, while the price stands 13% below Gekko Fair Value of $507.45.
Coverage this week centers on the storage sector's diverging performance and Western Digital's positioning in AI-driven demand. SanDisk jumped 6% on concentrated buying while Western Digital rose 3% and Micron ticked up, in a move described as momentum-driven rather than news-specific. Separately, comparisons between Western Digital and Seagate highlight different technology paths for AI storage, with Seagate already shipping 44TB HAMR drives to major cloud customers while Western Digital extends its current ePMR technology ahead of its own HAMR release. Earlier in the week, shares fell 4% to $411 even as the company pressed its AI storage pitch, and other sessions showed swings tied to institutional dip-buying and mass-capacity data center demand.
Looking ahead, the next earnings date falls on 29 October 2026, 39 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day hold. In the last 90 days, Congress recorded 1 buy and 0 sells, and the last 30 days show 2 unusual options signals, with call premium of $4,584,330 against put premium of $3,276,924. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days have averaged a 2.9% gain over 5 years, rising in 3 of them. The gap to Gekko Fair Value bears watching.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 20, 2026 from the data above.
Price vs fair value
Close $441.36200-day averageGekko Fair Value $507.45
Key stats
- Market cap
- $152.1B
- P/E ratio
- 15.5
- Forward P/E
- 20.1
- EPS, TTM
- $27.38
- Revenue, TTM
- $12.92B
- Profit margin
- 73%
- Dividend yield
- 0.12%
- Beta
- 2.18
- Volume
- 13.29M avg 6.05M
- 1-year return
- +337.2%
- Typical daily move
- ±5.2%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±9.8%
- 50-day average
- $481.71
- 200-day average
- $385.87
- Next earnings
- Oct 29 after close
- Shares outstanding
- 360.5M
Western Digital swing-trade checklist
Western Digital scores 5 supportive, 1 mixed and 0 headwinds across the 6 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
5 supportive1 mixed0 headwinds
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $441.36 sits between the 50-day ($481.71) and 200-day ($385.87) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
62.9, Accumulation
Reading 62.9 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
13.0% below
Price is 13% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneysupportive
Leans bullish
Last 90 days: Congress 1 buy / 0 sales. Last 30 days: 2 unusual options signals.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 39 days
Next report Oct 29, 2026, 39 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+2.9% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +2.9% over 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
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Western Digital stock chart and price history
Western Digital closed at $441.36 on Sep 18, 2026, +337.2% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $102.00 to $799.87.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −4.5%
- 3 months
- −40.9%
- 6 months
- +39.3%
- 1 year
- +337.2%
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About Western Digital
Western Digital makes and sells data storage hardware and related software to customers around the world, including the United States, China, Hong Kong, and markets across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Its products span hard disk drives and solid-state drives for desktops, notebooks, gaming consoles, smart video systems, and set-top boxes, along with flash-based storage embedded in phones, tablets, laptops, wearables, cars, industrial equipment, and connected-home devices. It also produces flash memory wafers.
For data centers, Western Digital supplies helium-filled enterprise hard drives and flash-based solid-state drives, often paired with software for servers, transaction processing, and data analysis, plus broader storage systems and platforms. On the consumer side, it offers external hard drives, portable solid-state drives, memory cards, USB flash drives, and wireless drives for backing up and streaming content to phones, tablets, and computers. These products reach the market through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, dealers, resellers, and retailers, under the G-Technology, SanDisk, and WD brand names.
The company was founded in 1970 and is based in San Jose, California. Its shares are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker WDC.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Electronic technology
- Industry
- Computer peripherals
- Website
- westerndigital.com
Western Digital GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Western Digital’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 62.9, in the Accumulation zone, up 1.2 points over five sessions.
62.9Accumulation
Up 1.2 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 18, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 21 | +3.6% | +8.1% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 123 | +0.8% | +2.9% | ||
| Neutral | 410 | +2.6% | +10.3% | ||
| Distribution | 100 | +1.8% | +11.5% | ||
| Selling | 8 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average WDC share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.3% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is Western Digital stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Western Digital trades 13.0% below Gekko Fair Value of $507.45, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Western Digital shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$507.45
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 19, 2026
13.0% Undervalued
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Western Digital insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Western Digital, and members of Congress disclosed 1 purchase and 0 sales, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
1trade disclosed: 1 purchase and 0 sales.
| Member | Amount | Disclosed |
|---|---|---|
| Gilbert Ray Cisneros House, CA, purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 | Sep 7 traded Jul 16 |
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
Buybacks
Western Digital has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jul 3, 2026
- $672.0M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.44%
- Trailing four quarters
- $2.59B
From company filings.
Unusual options activity last 30 days
2signals, 58% of the flagged premium in calls.
Latest: Bullish flow on Sep 19, $3.73M in unusual premium.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
3of the funds Gekko tracks hold WDC.
1added0opened2trimmed5sold out
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Western Digital earnings: next date and track record
Western Digital reports on Oct 29, 2026, after the close (39 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 29, 2026
Expected after the close, 39 days away
- EPS estimate
- $4.07
- Revenue estimate
- $4.13B
7 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±8.4%average move across the report
6 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Aug 5, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- WD reported 36% year-on-year revenue growth in fiscal 2026, its first full year as a pure-play HDD company, with significantly expanded gross and operating margins, doubled EPS, and $3.5 billion in free cash flow. The company achieved a net positive cash position while returning capital to shareholders. Management highlighted AI-driven storage demand across training, inference, Agentic AI, and physical AI as structural growth drivers, with HDDs representing ~80% of hyperscale data center storage.
- Guidance
- WD enters fiscal 2027 with robust customer demand, increased visibility, and confidence in demand durability. Management views Agentic AI and physical AI as step-function drivers of capacity-oriented storage demand, supporting a durable long-term growth outlook.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2026 | $3.56 est $3.31 | $3.75B est $3.70B | −17.7% |
| Apr 30, 2026 | $8.20 est $2.14 | $3.34B est $3.25B | +4.5% |
| Jan 29, 2026 | $2.13 est $1.93 | $3.02B est $2.93B | −10.5% |
| Oct 30, 2025 | $1.78 est $1.59 | $2.82B est $2.73B | +6.2% |
| Jul 30, 2025 | $1.66 est $1.48 | $2.61B est $2.47B | +11.4% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | $1.36 est $1.12 | $2.29B est $2.31B | +8.2% |
| Jan 29, 2025 | $1.77 est $1.82 | $4.29B est $4.26B | +4.6% |
| Oct 24, 2024 | $1.78 est $1.71 | $2.21B est $4.12B | +4.3% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Western Digital stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Western Digital is $664.92, +50.7% from the last close, from 19 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$664.92consensus 12-month target, +50.7% from the last close
Now $441.36Avg $664.92
Low $500High $1,050
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 19 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9 | Citi | $740 | +67.7% |
| Aug 6 | Evercore ISI | $575 | +30.3% |
| Aug 6 | Wedbush | $650 | +47.3% |
| Aug 6 | Bank of America Securities | $720 | +63.1% |
| Aug 6 | Bank of America Securities | $720 | +63.1% |
+2.9%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+2.9%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±5.2%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Western Digital seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 19, Western Digital averaged +2.9% across the last 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | −0.7% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +4.4% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +1.1% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +2.9% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +5.2% | 2 of 5 |
For scale, WDC’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 9.8%.
Western Digital market cap and key statistics
Western Digital’s market cap is $152.1B, with a P/E ratio of 15.5 and revenue of $12.92B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $152.1B
- P/E ratio
- 15.5
- Forward P/E
- 20.1
- EPS, TTM
- $27.38
- Gekko Fair Value
- $507.45
Trading
- Volume
- 13.29M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 6.05M
- 52-week high
- $799.87
- 52-week low
- $102.00
- Shares outstanding
- 360.5M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $12.92B
- Profit margin
- 73%
- Return on equity
- 130.8%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +984.0%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 2.18
- Typical daily move
- ±5.2%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±9.8%
- Dividend yield
- 0.12%
Western Digital stock news this week
Coverage of Western Digital this week reads positive: 8 positive, 3 neutral and 3 negative headlines.
- SanDisk Jumps 6% as Storage Bid Concentrates in One Name; Western Digital Rises 3%, Micron Ticks Up24/7 Wall St., Sep 18
- Western Digital vs. Sandisk: Which Storage Stock is the Better Bet?Yahoo! Finance Canada, Sep 18
- Western Digital Corporation (WDC) Is a Trending Stock: Facts to Know Before Betting on ItZacks Investment Research, Sep 18
- Western Digital Corp Stock (WDC) Moved Up by 3.48% on Sep 16: What Signal Does It Send?TradingKey, Sep 16
- Western Digital Falls 4% Despite Its AI Storage Pitch; Seagate Drops 5%, Micron Holds Steady24/7 Wall Street, Sep 15
- Western Digital (WDC): Buy, Sell, or Hold Post Q2 Earnings?The Globe and Mail, Sep 15
Western Digital peers
Western Digital’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| SNDKSandisk | Neutral | 10.6% above |
| ANETArista Networks | Neutral | 15.2% above |
| STXSeagate Technology | Accumulation | 2.4% below |
| NTAPNetApp | Neutral | 27.2% above |
| LOGILogitech International S.A. - | Neutral | 9.3% below |
| EXTRExtreme Networks | Accumulation | 14.6% below |
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Western Digital stock FAQ
What is Western Digital’s market cap?
Western Digital’s market cap is $152.1B at the Sep 18, 2026 close of $441.36, with 360.5M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 15.5.
What is the Western Digital stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Western Digital is $664.92, +50.7% from the last close. Of the 19 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 14 rate it a buy, 5 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Western Digital stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Western Digital is undervalued: the Sep 18, 2026 close of $441.36 is 13.0% below Gekko Fair Value of $507.45. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Western Digital report earnings next?
Western Digital is expected to report on Oct 29, 2026, after the market closes (39 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $4.07 per share on revenue of $4.13B. Western Digital beat the earnings estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports, moving 8.4% on average across the report.
What is Western Digital’s 52-week high and low?
Western Digital’s 52-week high is $799.87 and its 52-week low is $102.00; it closed at $441.36 on Sep 18, 2026, +337.2% over the past year.
Is Western Digital stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 5 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value, smart money, earnings risk and seasonality), 1 as mixed (trend). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
Is there unusual options activity in Western Digital?
Gekko flagged 2 unusual options signals in Western Digital over the last 30 days, with $4.58M of flagged premium in calls and $3.28M in puts. The latest, bullish flow, was on Sep 19, 2026 with $3.73M in unusual premium. The signal-by-signal table is in Gekko.
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