Ratings Western Digital Corporation

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07-10	Mizuho Adjusts Price Target on Western Digital to $75 From $61, Maintains Outperform Rating	MT
06-23	Western Digital convinces US judge to throw out $552.7 million patent award	RE

The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.

The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
The group's high margin levels account for strong profits.
Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
For the last 4 months, the company has been enjoying highly positive EPS revisions, which were frequently and significantly raised.
Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.

As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
The potential for earnings per share (EPS) growth in the coming years appears limited according to current analyst estimates.
The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
The appreciation potential seems limited due to the average target prices set by the analysts covering the stock.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.
Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.
The price targets of analysts who cover the stock differ significantly. This implies difficulties in evaluating the company and its business.