(VIANEWS) – Shares of Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) jumped by a staggering 15.5% in 5 sessions from $33.03 at 15.5, to $38.15 at 11:38 EST on Friday, after two sequential sessions in a row of gains. NASDAQ is jumping 0.02% to $12,691.40, after two consecutive sessions in a row of gains.
Western Digital’s last close was $38.74, 38.51% under its 52-week high of $63.00.
About Western Digital
Western Digital Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, rest of Asia, and internationally. 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; and flash-based memory wafers. The company also provides enterprise helium hard drives; enterprise SSDs consisting of flash-based SSDs and software solutions for use in enterprise servers, on-line transactions, data analysis, and other enterprise applications; drives are used for data storage systems and tiered storage models; and data storage platforms. In addition, it offers client solutions, such as external HDD storage products in mobile and desktop form; client portable SSDs; removable cards that are used in consumer devices comprising mobile phones, tablets, imaging systems, and cameras and smart video systems; 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 Western Digital, SanDisk, and WD brands to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, dealers, resellers, and retailers. Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Western Digital has a trailing twelve months EPS of $-2.19.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is negative -5.64%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the ongoing quarter and the next is a negative 213.5% and a negative 740%, respectively.
Volatility
Western Digital’s last week, last month’s, and last quarter’s current intraday variation average was 4.16%, 0.57%, and 2.02%.
Western Digital’s highest amplitude of average volatility was 4.35% (last week), 2.24% (last month), and 2.02% (last quarter).
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Western Digital is 1081062 which is 75.72% below its average volume of 3973980.
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