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Western Digital Corp. WDC
16 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
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In brief
What this company does
Written from the business description in WESTERN DIGITAL CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 14 August 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Growth
USD 12.9B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 16-year series below
Revenue $B
Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 12.9 · Net income 9.4
10B20B
200720112014201820222025
Compound annual growth
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Profitability
73 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin
Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 34.5% · Net 72.9%
20%40%60%-10%-20%
200720162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 133.0%
50%100%
200720162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Each USD of equity produced 133 cents of profit this year.
The 16-year record
16 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 12.9 | 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 | 4.5 | 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 | 4.8 | 2.8 | 0.2 | −0.2 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 4.5 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 2.7 | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ |
| Income tax $B | 0.5 | −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 | 9.4 | 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 |
| Free cash flow $B | 3.5 | 1.3 | −0.8 | −1.2 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 24.28 | 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 $ | 0.50 | 0.10 | ◌ | ◌ | 0.00 | 1.50 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 1.80 | 1.25 | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ |
| Payout % | 2 | 2 | −0 | −0 | 0 | −238 | −77 | 88 | 192 | 27 | 16 | 18 | 0 | — | — | — |
| ROE % | 133.0 | 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 | 0.36 | 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 | ◌ |
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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 78 reconciliationsAUDITED
Reconciled in 16 of the 16 fiscal years we could check. Two checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2008.
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityComputer Storage Devices
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsJuly 3
Data on record since2007