WDC
WESTERN DIGITAL CORPEvidence as of 2026-09-02Overview · WESTERN DIGITAL CORP
Western Digital Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, rest of Asia, and internationally. It offers client devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, such as desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), smart video systems, gaming consoles, and set t…
Management team
- Mr. B. Scott Davis · Chief Sales and Marketing OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Sesh Tirumala · Chief Information OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Tiang Yew Tan · CEO & DirectorFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Katie L. Watson · Chief Human Resources OfficerFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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+0.3 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
FY 2026 = fiscal quarter ended 2026-08-07. The surviving evidence shows sequential improvement in reported top-line and margins across three recent fiscal quarters: revenue rose from $ 2,818,000,000 (quarter ended 2025-10-03) to $ 3,017,000,000 (quarter ended 2026-01-02) to $ 3,337,000,000 (quarter ended 2026-04-03), while gross profit moved from $ 1,227,000,000 to $ 1,380,000,000 to $ 1,676,000,000 over the same dates. Operating income expanded from $ 792,000,000 to $ 908,000,000 to $ 1,190,000,000, and reported net income rose from $ 1,182,000,000 to $ 1,842,000,000 to $ 3,205,000,000.
Balance-sheet and market items underline mixed signals: long-term debt fell materially year-over-year to $ 1,052,000,000 as of 2026-07-03 while cash and equivalents were $ 1,579,000,000 at that same point; shares outstanding fell to 339,037,922 and later were reported at 360,540,944 as of 2026-08-07, indicating a recent increase in share count. Market metrics show very high volatility (90-day vol + 91.2%) and elevated systematic risk (beta 3.12), with a trailing twelve-month momentum signal at + 571.8% (99th percentile) even as 3‑month momentum is negative.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue rose across three consecutive fiscal quarters: revenue was $2,818,000,000 in the quarter ended 2025-10-03, $3,017,000,000 in the quarter ended 2026-01-02, and $3,337,000,000 in the quarter ended 2026-04-03.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001628280-25-047613Gross profit increased across those same quarters: $1,227,000,000 in the quarter ended 2025-10-03, $1,380,000,000 in the quarter ended 2026-01-02, and $1,676,000,000 in the quarter ended 2026-04-03.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001628280-25-047613Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
In the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-14, management reported fiscal year 2026 net revenue of $12,919 million versus $9,520 million in fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2024 net revenue of $6,317 million.
Management's discussion · filed 2026-08-14In the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-14, management reported fiscal year 2026 gross profit of $6,311 million, representing 48.9% of net revenue, versus gross profit of $3,692 million (38.8% of net revenue) in fiscal 2025.
Management's discussion · filed 2026-08-14Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Over the trailing 12-month minus 1-month metric, the signal is +571.8% and ranks in the 99th percentile of the 547-stock research universe.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01Momentum over the last 6 months is +79.9%, with a 6-month momentum rank in the 95th percentile and 6-month relative strength of +67.6% (ranked 95th of 547).
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01weakened in debateReads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00 the security had a 0.34% weight in the IVV ETF.
ETF constituents · market dataThere are 11 Form 4 filings in the provided evidence with filed dates on 2026-08-24 and 2026-08-27.
Form 4 × 11 (90d window not enforced here)Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
An article reports Maple Rock Capital Partners lowered its Western Digital holdings by 3.0% and owned 1,357,834 shares as of the 2nd quarter filing.
News · thelincolnianonline.com · 2026-09-01An article reports Headlands Technologies LLC bought a new position of 3,957 shares in Western Digital during the 2nd quarter, valued at approximately $2,527,000.
News · thelincolnianonline.com · 2026-08-31Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
Kris Sennesael (Chief Financial Officer) reported the sale of 4,317 shares for "$2.0M" on 2026-08-26.
Form 4 · Sennesael Kris (Chief Financial Officer) · $0 code M · 2026-08-26Irving Tan (Chief Executive Officer) reported the sale of 3,314 shares for "$1.6M" on 2026-08-26.
Form 4 · Tan Irving (Chief Executive Officer) · $0 code M · 2026-08-26Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The reported trailing twelve-month price-to-earnings ratio is 26.89.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeNet cash and cash equivalents are $1,579,000,000 as of 2026-07-03 and reported long-term debt is $1,052,000,000 as of 2026-07-03, producing an enterprise value of $161,875,062,815 versus a market capitalization of $162,402,062,815.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
The provided filings and quarterly disclosures show consistent top-line and profit expansion across multiple sequential quarters and a materially larger fiscal 2026 versus prior years, with gross margin improvement reported in the 10-K — these items are primary-company reported figures and thus high-strength evidence of recent operating scale-up. Point-in-time balances show a meaningful reduction in long-term debt during the past year and a documented multi-billion-dollar share repurchase program that management executed in fiscal 2026, both of which are strong, filed-capital-allocation data supporting an improving balance-sheet posture. Market signals across the 6- and 12-month horizons rank highly in the research universe and the majority of street analysts in the provided consensus show buy/maintain-buy positions, which together provide robust third-party market-support evidence. The bear case leans on short-term volatility, insider sales, a rise in shares outstanding later in the sample, and a gap between accounting operating income and operating cash flow; these items are present in the dataset but are either point-in-time, mixed-strength, or require context (e.g., repurchases and debt paydown recorded in filings) and therefore reduce their standalone evidentiary weight relative to the company-filed revenue/profit and capital-allocation disclosures.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.36
40 surviving claims rest on 16 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 20% of them, and 98% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence base is reasonably broad but not robust: 40 surviving claims draw on 16 sources, yet a few sources and one lead analyst carry outsized weight. The very high debate survival rate means the desk reached consensus, but that also makes the read brittle to a single new, high-quality filing or a change in a dominant source.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 1st of 6 in Computer Hardware (as of 2026-09-01).
6-month relative strength ranks 2nd of 6 in Computer Hardware (as of 2026-09-01).
90-day volatility ranks 5th of 6 in Computer Hardware (as of 2026-09-01).
dividend yield ranks 2nd of 6 in Computer Hardware (as of 2026-09-01).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
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What this was built from
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15 filings· 2 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.6 to the score
11 documents· 1 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+1.2 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash+0.2 to the score
2 holdings records
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.3 to the score
3 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
7 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state — stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−0.7 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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