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Western Digital Corporation WDC
15 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2024 reported
SEC FILINGS ONLY
Revenue · FY2024
$9.5B
▲ 50.7% vs FY2023
EPS · FY24
$5.12
Dividend / sh · FY24
$0.10
Payout · FY24
2%
ROE · FY24
23.4%
Net margin · FY24
19.8%
Dividend coverage
51.2×
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Result
USD 9.5B
Revenue, FY2024 · full 15-year series below
Revenue
Net income
20 cents of every revenue dollar became profit this year.
Per share
USD 5.12
Diluted EPS, FY2024
EPS
Dividend
Earnings covered the dividend 51.2 times — the rest stayed in the company.
Profitability
23.4%
Return on equity, FY2024
ROE
Operating margin24.5%
Net margin19.8%
Return on assets9.9%
Each USD of equity produced 23 cents of profit this year.
Returned to shareholders
USD 193.0M
returned in FY2024 · dividends + net buybacks
Dividends paidUSD 44.0M
Net buybacksUSD 149.0M
Share of profit10.2%
Consecutive raises—
USD 44.0M in dividends and USD 149.0M in buybacks — 10% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.
Growth
−10.7% a year
revenue, compounded over five years
CAGR
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue
−20.3%
−10.7%
−4.2%
Net income
+6.9%
+2.6%
EPS, diluted
+1.5%
−1.9%
Dividend / share
−41.8%
−25.1%
Returned to shareholders
−20.2%
−17.8%
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where the series crosses a loss.
Share base
0.35B
Shares outstanding, FY2024
Change, 5 years+14.9%
Change, 10 years+50.9%
The share count grew 15% in five years — the same company, cut into more, smaller slices.
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Balance sheet
USD 14.0B
total assets, end of FY2024
Total assetsUSD 14.0B
EquityUSD 5.3B
CashUSD 2.1B
Gross debtUSD 4.7B
Net debtUSD 2.6B
Current ratio1.08×
Net debt stands at 49% of equity.
History
15 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
Metric
2024
2023
2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2008
2007
Revenue $B
9.5
6.3
6.3
18.8
16.7
16.6
20.6
13.0
14.6
15.1
15.4
12.5
9.5
7.5
8.1
Operating income $B
2.3
−0.4
−0.5
2.4
0.3
0.1
3.6
0.5
1.6
1.8
1.3
1.8
0.8
0.5
1.0
EBITDA $B
2.7
−0.1
−0.2
3.1
1.1
0.9
4.5
1.4
2.4
2.7
·
·
·
·
·
Income tax $B
−0.5
0.0
0.1
0.6
0.2
0.5
1.4
−0.1
0.1
0.1
0.2
0.1
0.1
0.0
0.1
Net income $B
1.9
−0.8
−1.7
1.5
−0.2
−0.8
0.7
0.2
1.5
1.6
1.0
1.6
0.7
0.5
0.9
EPS, diluted $
5.12
−2.61
−5.37
4.89
−0.84
−2.58
2.20
1.00
6.18
6.68
3.98
6.58
3.09
2.08
3.84
Dividend / sh $
0.10
·
·
0.00
1.50
2.00
2.00
2.00
1.80
1.25
·
·
·
·
·
Payout %
2
−0
−0
0
−238
−77
88
192
27
16
18
0
·
·
·
ROE %
23.4
−7.3
−14.5
12.5
−2.6
−7.0
6.0
2.2
16.2
19.3
12.6
24.5
13.2
16.0
32.2
Shares out B
0.35
0.34
0.32
0.32
0.30
0.29
0.30
0.28
0.23
0.23
0.24
0.25
0.23
0.23
·
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks figures not disclosed in the filing for that year.
How we verifyAUDITED
58 of 58
checks passed before publication
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidity
Every figure was compared against the original statement: 0 failures and 0 presentation gaps.
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