Western Digital Corp (WDC) – Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review provides you an in-depth strategic SWOT analysis of the company’s businesses and operations. The profile has been compiled by GlobalData to bring to you a clear and an unbiased view of the company’s key strengths and weaknesses and the potential opportunities and threats. The profile helps you formulate strategies that augment your business by enabling you to understand your partners, customers and competitors better.
The profile contains critical company information including:

- Business description – A detailed description of the company’s operations and business divisions.
- Corporate strategy – Analyst’s summarization of the company’s business strategy.
- SWOT Analysis – A detailed analysis of the company’s strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.
- Company history – Progression of key events associated with the company.
- Major products and services – A list of major products, services and brands of the company.
- Key competitors – A list of key competitors to the company.
- Key employees – A list of the key executives of the company.
- Executive biographies – A brief summary of the executives’ employment history.
- Key operational heads – A list of personnel heading key departments/functions.
- Important locations and subsidiaries – A list and contact details of key locations and subsidiaries of the company.
- Detailed financial ratios for the past five years – The latest financial ratios derived from the annual financial statements published by the company with 5 years history.
- Interim ratios for the last five interim periods – The latest financial ratios derived from the quarterly/semi-annual financial statements published by the company for 5 interims history.

Highlights

Western Digital Corp (Western Digital) is a developer and manufacturer of storage devices. It provides storage technologies and solutions; and designs and manufactures storage products, home entertainment and networking equipment. The company’s major products include hard disk drives which are used in notebook, desktop, home entertainment storage devices, corporate and multiple type data centers. It also offers other products such as networking products, solid state drives and software applications for tablets and smart phones. The company markets its products under the HGST, SanDisk and WD brands to OEMs, distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure providers and consumers. The company has operations in Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Americas. Western Digital is headquartered in Irvine, California, the US.

Western Digital Corp Key Recent Developments

Nov 13,2017: Western Digital Expands Solutions in Life Sciences Through Partnership with Globus to Connect Massive Data to the Researchers Who Need It
Aug 10,2017: Western Digital 96-layer 3d nand recognized as best of show at the flash memory summit
Jul 27,2017: Western Digital reports Q4 net income, provides Q1 guidance
Jun 26,2017: Western Digital announces update on Q4 revenue and reiterates guidance for fiscal 2017
May 22,2017: HGST, a Western Digital Brand, Addresses the Data Demands of the Life Sciences Industry at Every Step of Data Analysis, from Collaboration and Research to Data Archive

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