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STX vs WDC
Side-by-side comparison of Seagate Technology Holdings PLC (STX) and Western Digital Corporation (WDC): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both STX and WDC operate in Electronic Components (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
- WDC is the larger of the two at $252.52B, about the same size as STX ($245.32B).
- Over the past year, STX is up 722.2% and WDC is up 1113.5% - WDC leads by 391.3 points.
- STX has been more active in the news (14 items in the past 4 weeks vs 11 for WDC).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC
- Western Digital Corporation
- Price
- $1097.84+2.58%
- $735.36-1.48%
- Market cap
- $245.32B
- $252.52B
- 1M return
- +45.61%
- +59.36%
- 1Y return
- +722.23%
- +1113.55%
- Industry
- Electronic Components
- Electronic Components
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- 2002
- News (4w)
- 14
- 11
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 25
Seagate Technology Holdings PLC
Seagate Technology Holdings plc provides data storage technology and solutions in Singapore, the United States, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers hard disk and solid state drives, including serial advanced technology attachment, serial attached SCSI, and non-volatile memory express products; solid state hybrid drives; and storage subsystems. It also provides enterprise data solutions portfolio comprising storage subsystems and mass capacity optimized private cloud storage solutions for enterprises, cloud service providers, and scale-out storage servers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). In addition, the company offers external storage solutions under the Seagate Ultra Touch, One Touch, and Expansion product lines, as well as under the LaCie and Maxtor brands in capacities up to 16TB. It sells its products primarily to OEMs, distributors, and retailers. Seagate Technology Holdings plc was founded in 1978 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions. It offers client devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, such as desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), smart video systems, gaming consoles, and set top boxes; flash-based embedded storage products for mobile phones, tablets, notebook PCs, and other portable and wearable devices, as well as automotive, Internet of Things, industrial, and connected home applications; flash-based memory wafers; and embedded storage solutions and flash products. The company also provides data center devices and solutions comprising enterprise helium hard drives; enterprise SSDs consisting of flash-based SSDs and software solutions for use in enterprise servers, online transactions, data analysis, and other enterprise applications; data center solutions, including HDDs and drive configurations for use in data storage systems and tiered storage models; and data storage platforms and systems. In addition, it offers client solutions, such as external HDD storage products in mobile and desktop form; client SSDs; removable cards that are used in consumer devices comprising mobile phones, tablets, imaging systems, and still and action video cameras; universal serial bus flash drives for use in the computing and consumer markets; and wireless drive products used in-field back up of created content, as well as wireless streaming of high-definition movies, photos, music, and documents to tablets, smartphones, and PCs. The company sells its products under the G-Technology, SanDisk, and WD brands to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, resellers, and retailers. It operates in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, rest of Asia, and internationally. Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Latest STX
- Seagate Tech downgraded by Fox Advisors
- EVP & CTO Morris John Christopher converted options into 942 units of Ordinary Shares and sold $1,200,579 worth of Ordinary Shares (1,364 units at $880.19) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 12,088 units (SEC Form 4)
- EVP Global Operations Chong Kian Fatt converted options into 678 units of Ordinary Shares, increasing direct ownership by 37% to 2,518 units (SEC Form 4)
- EVP & Chief Commercial Officer Teh Ban Seng converted options into 989 units of Ordinary Shares and sold $870,508 worth of Ordinary Shares (989 units at $880.19) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
- EVP & CFO Romano Gianluca converted options into 1,695 units of Ordinary Shares and sold $795,029 worth of Ordinary Shares (903 units at $880.19), increasing direct ownership by 2% to 42,860 units (SEC Form 4)
- CEO Mosley William D converted options into 3,319 units of Ordinary Shares and sold $1,556,394 worth of Ordinary Shares (1,768 units at $880.19), increasing direct ownership by 0.48% to 327,517 units (SEC Form 4)
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC filed SEC Form 8-K: Regulation FD Disclosure
- Seagate Announces Redemption of Exchangeable Notes
- Director Arumugavelu Shankar sold $927,680 worth of Ordinary Shares (1,000 units at $927.68), decreasing direct ownership by 13% to 6,626 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Bhatt Prat sold $929,880 worth of Ordinary Shares (1,000 units at $929.88) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 7% to 12,869 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest WDC
- Western Digital downgraded by Fox Advisors
- Director Cole Martin I sold $385,924 worth of shares (720 units at $536.01) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 25,433 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Cole Martin I sold $1,676,600 worth of shares (3,280 units at $511.16) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 11% to 26,153 units (SEC Form 4)
- Amendment: SEC Form 8-K/A filed by Western Digital Corporation
- Chief Legal Officer & Corp Sec Tregillis Cynthia L converted options into 6 shares, covered exercise/tax liability with 699 shares and sold $235,699 worth of shares (432 units at $545.60) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 0.96% to 116,643 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief of Global Operations Gubbi Vidyadhara K converted options into 13 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 1,764 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 83,403 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Sales & Mrktng Officer Davis Brian Scott converted options into 6 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 881 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 0.85% to 102,557 units (SEC Form 4)
- Western Digital Corporation filed SEC Form 8-K: Other Events, Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
- Chief of Global Operations Gubbi Vidyadhara K sold $1,376,694 worth of shares (2,475 units at $556.24), decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 85,154 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form SD filed by Western Digital Corporation