Western Digital Corporation is a developer, manufacturer and provider of data storage devices and solutions based on both hard disk drive and NAND flash technologies. Co. manufactures, markets, and sells data storage devices and solutions in the U.S. and in foreign countries through its sales personnel, dealers, distributors, retailers, and subsidiaries. It manages and reports under two segments: hard disk drives (HDD) and flash-based products (Flash). Its portfolio of technology and products addresses multiple end markets: Cloud, Client and Consumer. Cloud is comprised primarily of products for public or private cloud environments and end customers. The WDC YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the WDC YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether WDC YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the WDC YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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