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WDC: Western Digital Corporation

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 internationa...

40.43 USD
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USD
Fair Value
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39.10 - 81.55
52-week range

Analysis

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Trailing Twelve Months
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The following section summarizes insights on Western Digital Corporation's Buyback Yield:

Jun 2016Jun 2018Jun 2020Jun 2022Jun 20240.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%

Performance Summary
  • Western Digital's latest twelve months buyback yield is 0.2%
  • Western Digital's buyback yield for fiscal years ending July 2020 to 2024 averaged -0.2%.
  • Western Digital's operated at median buyback yield of -0.2% from fiscal years ending July 2020 to 2024.
  • Looking back at the last 5 years, Western Digital's buyback yield peaked in December 2024 at 0.2%.
  • Western Digital's buyback yield hit its 5-year low in July 2020 of -0.5%.
  • Western Digital's buyback yield decreased in 2020 (-0.5%, -113.0%) and increased in 2021 (-0.4%, -31.4%), 2022 (-0.2%, -36.3%), 2023 (-0.1%, -53.0%), and 2024 (0.0%, -73.6%).

How does Western Digital's Buyback Yield benchmark against competitors?

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We've identified the following companies as similar to Western Digital Corporation because they operate in a related industry or sector. We also considered size, growth, and various financial metrics to narrow down the list to the ones listed below.

Metric Usage: Buyback Yield

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  • Fwd Earnings Yield - The inverse of the forward price-to-earnings ratio.
  • Avg EV / EBIT (5y) - Five-year quarterly average EV / EBIT.
  • EV / Fwd Revenue - Measures the dollars in Enterprise Value for each dollar of revenue projected to be earned over the next twelve months.
  • Price Close (Unadjusted) - The price at the close of the trading day that have not been adjusted for splits and cash dividends.
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Buyback Yield

A ratio that measures the difference between the amount of share repurchases and the amount of share issuances over the trailing twelve months divided...

Definition of Buyback Yield

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Buyback Yield is defined as:

Share Repurchases - Share Issuances
(/) Market Cap
(=) Buyback Yield

Buyback yield measures the difference between the amount of share repurchases and the amount of share issuances over the trailing twelve months divided by the company’s market capitalization

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Sector Benchmark Analysis

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-104.2%-74.2%-44.2%9.1%2006001,0001,400

The chart above depicts the distribution of buyback yield for companies operating in the Information Technology sector in the Developed economic region. Over 2,560 companies were considered in this analysis, and 2,464 had meaningful values. The average buyback yield of companies in the sector is -3.7% with a standard deviation of 13.0%.

Western Digital Corporation's Buyback Yield of 0.2% ranks in the 78.7% percentile for the sector. The following table provides additional summary stats:

Buyback Yield In The Information Technology Sector
Economic Risk RegionDeveloped
Total Constituents2,566
Included Constituents2,464
Min-106.5%
Max9.0%
Median0.0%
Mean-3.7%
Standard Deviation13.0%

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