| Previous Close | 71.61 |
| Open | 72.88 |
| Bid | 72.01 x 800 |
| Ask | 73.80 x 900 |
| Day's Range | 71.19 - 74.00 |
| 52 Week Range | 39.02 - 77.07 |
| Volume | 4,810,471 |
| Avg. Volume | 3,620,180 |
| Market Cap | 16.99B |
| Beta (5Y Monthly) | 1.17 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 19.17 |
| EPS (TTM) | 3.83 |
| Earnings Date | Apr 20, 2021 - Apr 26, 2021 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 2.68 (3.65%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | Mar 23, 2021 |
| 1y Target Est | 75.95 |
(WDC) shares were gaining ground Friday after Goldman Sachs analyst raised his rating on the disk-drive and flash memory storage company to Buy from Neutral and lifted his target price on the stock to $85, from $56. Micron (ticker: MU) generates about two-thirds of its business from DRAM. Western Digital (WDC), while continuing to be one of the two primary plays on disk drives, along with (STX) (STX), also has a substantial business in NAND flash memory products.
In the next few months, the opportunity might be in old school tech, forgotten stocks like HP Inc. and Dell Technology.
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data storage and management solutions, today introduced LyveTM Cloud storage-as-a-service platform, an S3-compatible storage-only cloud. Lyve Cloud enables always-on mass capacity data storage and activation. It is designed as a simple, trusted, and efficient service allowing enterprises to unlock the value of their massive unstructured datasets. Seagate is collaborating with Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company, to make Lyve Cloud accessible to more customers. This collaboration will provide extensive interconnect opportunities for additional cloud services and geographical expansion.