Western Digital
Prices as of 2026-10-20 00:32 UTC. Updates live in your browser.
Base 50, components added, then compressed onto a 2-98 scale. The formula is published and identical on every page.
Market sentiment history
Trading sessions only, so each step is one market day against the one before it. Free history covers the last 30 days; scores are recorded after every US close.
What the score is reading for WDC
At the Monday 19 October close, WDC scored 27, 9th of the 34 names here. The two inputs furthest above the board's median that session — not simply the largest, which is what separates WDC from any other name that had a good day — were momentum at -5.3 and relative strength at -5.0. Pulling the other way was trend at -9.6 — price against its own 10- and 20-day moving averages.
Across the 15 sessions recorded since 21 September, WDC has scored between 6 and 52, and that 27 sits around the middle of that range. Net across the window it is down 25 points, and the largest single-session move was a fall of 43 points on 2 October.
Figures, not reasons. Every number above is the formula's own output for Western Digital or a score this site published on a named day; the score describes how the price behaved and has no view on why.
What Western Digital does
Supplies high-capacity hard drives for the bulk storage tier that sits beneath AI training data, following its separation from flash.
What moves WDC
- Nearline drive pricing and capacity
- Cloud storage buildout
- Areal density roadmap
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Latest WDC news
Headlines from the last 24 hours, most heavily covered first. Coverage is shown for context and is not an input to the market sentiment score.
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Common questions
Why do hard drives still matter in an AI datacentre?
Training datasets are enormous and mostly cold. Bulk capacity remains far cheaper per terabyte on spinning media than on flash.
What is Western Digital's market sentiment score right now?
WDC currently scores 27 out of 100, which reads as cool. The score combines six weighted, price-based inputs: momentum, relative strength against the complex, trend against its moving averages, volume, volatility and drawdown from the 52-week high. The full breakdown is shown above.
Where does WDC sit in the AI supply chain?
Western Digital is grouped under memory & storage. High-bandwidth memory and the storage beneath it. Memory bandwidth, not compute, is what most often limits AI training throughput.