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Valued at $51.5 billion by market cap, San Jose, California-based Western Digital Corporation (WDC) operates as one of the largest data storage device and solutions companies in the world. It designs, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of HDDs used in desktops, servers, network-attached storage devices, video game consoles, etc.
The HDD giant has significantly outperformed the broader market over the past year. WDC stock prices have soared 235.9% on a YTD basis and 198.8% over the past 52 weeks, notably outpacing the S&P 500 Index’s ($SPX) 16.3% gains in 2025 and 17.7% returns over the past year.