Western Digital

WDC · Memory & storage
$459.45 -0.55% LIVE

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Market sentiment score
45 Neutral
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Momentum -2.6
Relative strength +1.3
Trend -5.8
Volume +4.6
Volatility +2.4
Drawdown -4.6

Base 50, components added, then compressed onto a 2-98 scale. The formula is published and identical on every page.

Market sentiment history

0 50 100 30 Jul 28 Aug
20-session change
-25
Period high
77
Period low
7
Today
45

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 Friday 28 August close, WDC scored 45, eighth 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 -2.6 and relative strength at +1.3. Pulling the other way was trend at -5.8 — price against its own 10- and 20-day moving averages.

Across the 20 sessions recorded since 30 July, WDC has scored between 7 and 77, and that 45 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 57 points on 24 August.

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.

X mentions

0 74 148 21 Aug 27 Aug
Posts, last full day
148
vs prior day
+40%
Rank on the board
19 / 34
Period high
148

Posts on X carrying $WDC, counted by this site directly against the X API over Thursday 27 August, retweets excluded. Weekdays only - weekend counts are collected but run around half a weekday across the whole board, so they are withheld rather than charted beside trading days.

This measures how much Western Digital is being talked about, not whether the talk is positive. Across the whole board, post volume has no relationship with the direction of a day's move - the numbers are here. It sits beside the sentiment score rather than inside it. Full X mentions board →

Market cap
$182.7B
5-day
+0.00%
Turnover
$2.0B
52-week low
$77.90
52-week high
$799.87
In range
53%

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

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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 45 out of 100, which reads as neutral. 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.