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Nasdaq · Computer Storage Devices · CIK 0000106040
$467.46
+1.74% · delayed 15 min
$168.75B market value
What this company does
WESTERN DIGITAL makes computers and computing hardware. It took in $12.92B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 73 cents is left as profit.
Its accounting patterns resemble those of companies that later restated earnings. This is a statistical screen, not evidence of wrongdoing.
Beneish M-Score -0.19, above the −1.78 threshold
Recent open-market selling by STREETER STEPHANIE A, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$2.5M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From WESTERN DIGITAL CORP's FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
Measured against FY2025, from the 10-K
Improved: +35.7%
$9.52B to $12.92B
Improved: +398.9%
$1.89B to $9.42B
Improved: +10.1 pts
38.8% to
It makes a profit rather than burning through money.
$9.42B earned last year
Sales are growing quickly.
up 35.7% on last year
It holds more cash than debt, so borrowings are not a pressure.
$527.0M more cash than debt
A widely used bankruptcy-risk model places it well clear of distress.
Altman Z 23.39
Reported profit is running well ahead of the cash actually coming in.
$9.42B profit vs $3.93B cash
Its accounting patterns resemble those of companies that later restated earnings. That is a prompt to read the filings, not evidence of wrongdoing.
Beneish M -0.19
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Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 17% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 10% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 73 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $9.42B last year.
What it earns, what it keeps, and what it costs to run — all from the same filing
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 2 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 4% of the cash its operations generated.
GoodFigures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned $9.42B and generated $3.93B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Sold on the open market — 2,000 shares at $447.06 ($894.1K)
Holds 38,407 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 2,000 shares at $448.58 ($897.2K)
Holds 36,407 shares after this filing.
Go deeper
Every figure above traces back to one of these filings.
Straight from SEC EDGAR — the original source for every figure above
| Filing | Filed | Covers to |
|---|---|---|
| Major event announcement (amended)(8-K/A) | 2026-08-27 | 2026-08-26 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-08-26 | 2026-08-26 |
Financial figures are from WDC's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-07-03), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
7 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
23.39
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
-0.19
Above the threshold — worth a closer look
Scores above -1.78 are the ones the model associates with earnings manipulation.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +53.1 pts
19.8% to 72.9%
Improved: +174.5%
$1.28B to $3.51B
Improved: turned negative
$2.48B to $0.00
Deteriorated: -25.3%
$2.11B to $1.58B
Deteriorated: +4.0%
347.0M to 361.0M
1 other measure barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 15% and 20%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 5.6% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
Yes, quickly. Sales grew 35.7% last year.
No — it holds more cash than debt, with $527.0M left over after paying off every borrowing. For every $1 it owes, it owns $2.77 in assets.
Around average. Investors pay $17.9 for every $1 of yearly profit.
Some accounting patterns here resemble those found in companies that overstated earnings. This is a statistical flag, not evidence of wrongdoing — it is a prompt to read the filings closely.
At a glance
Sold on the open market — 1,600 shares at $455.00 ($728.0K)
Holds 34,807 shares after this filing.
Reported another kind of transaction — 112,500 shares
Holds 266,647 shares after this filing.
Reported another kind of transaction — 112,500 shares
Holds 112,500 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 112,500 shares
Holds 0 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 112,500 shares
Holds 112,500 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 2,068 shares
Holds 12,043 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 9 shares
Holds 82,135 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 1,143 shares at $450.75 ($515.2K)
Holds 80,992 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 5,171 shares
Holds 86,163 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 9 shares
Holds 86,172 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 2,056 shares at $468.88 ($964.0K)
Holds 84,116 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 8,274 shares
Holds 178,007 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 19 shares
Holds 178,026 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 4,317 shares at $468.88 ($2.0M)
Holds 173,709 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 6,722 shares
Holds 166,428 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 15 shares
Holds 166,443 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 2,741 shares at $468.88 ($1.3M)
Holds 163,702 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 32 shares
Holds 366,347 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 476 shares at $450.75 ($214.6K)
Holds 365,871 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 16,548 shares
Holds 382,419 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 42 shares
Holds 382,461 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 3,314 shares at $468.88 ($1.6M)
Holds 379,147 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 7 shares
Holds 112,153 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 771 shares at $450.75 ($347.5K)
Holds 111,382 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 3,878 shares
Holds 115,260 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 476 shares at $450.78 ($214.6K)
Holds 114,784 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 9 shares
Holds 114,793 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 1,631 shares at $468.88 ($764.7K)
Holds 113,162 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,007 shares at $478.36 ($481.7K)
Holds 112,155 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 432 shares ($194.9K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock.
Filed notice to sell 1,795 shares ($825.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock.
Filed notice to sell 10,000 shares ($4.5M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Award.
Filed notice to sell 1,007 shares ($481.7K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock.
Filed notice to sell 476 shares ($214.6K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock.
Filed notice to sell 684 shares ($305.2K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
| Annual report(10-K) |
| 2026-08-14 |
| 2026-07-03 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-08-05 | 2026-08-05 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-06-11 | 2026-06-11 |
| Major event announcement (amended)(8-K/A) | 2026-06-08 | 2026-06-02 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-06-03 | 2026-06-02 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-05-28 | 2026-05-26 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2026-05-01 | 2026-04-03 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-04-30 | 2026-04-30 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-02-24 | 2026-02-23 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-02-18 | 2026-02-17 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-02-09 | 2026-02-05 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2026-01-30 | 2026-01-02 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2026-01-29 | 2026-01-29 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-11-24 | 2025-11-20 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-11-03 | 2025-10-31 |
| Quarterly report(10-Q) | 2025-10-31 | 2025-10-03 |
| Major event announcement(8-K) | 2025-10-30 | 2025-10-30 |
| Shareholder voting information(DEF 14A) | 2025-10-06 | 2025-06-27 |
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