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    Western Digital Advances 1.0% with Q3 Revenue Projected Up 47.5% YoY

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    Western Digital Advances 1.0% with Q3 Revenue Projected Up 47.5% YoY

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    Western Digital closed up 1.01% on October 9, showing signs of stabilization following a 14.67% monthly decline. The company is scheduled to report its Q3 financial results on October 22. Consensus projections anticipate a 128.65% year-over-year increase in earnings per share to $4.07, accompanied by a 47.45% rise in revenue to $4.16 billion. Traders are tracking enterprise storage demand and NAND memory pricing trajectory heading into the print.

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    Market Ontology
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    2026-10-10
    Published
    2026-10-20
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    1 · 2026-10-20

    Cite as: Market Ontology, “Western Digital Advances 1.0% with Q3 Revenue Projected Up 47.5% YoY”, revision 1, evidence through 2026-10-10. https://marketontology.com/market-events/2026-10-10/western-digital-advances-1-0-with-q3-revenue-projected-up-47-5-yoy-73c92f

    EQUITY
    Western Digital Advances 1.0% with Q3 Revenue Projected Up 47.5% YoY
    Western Digital closed up 1.01% on October 9, showing signs of stabilization following a 14.67% monthly decline. The company is scheduled to report its Q3 financial results on October 22. Consensus projections anticipate a 128.65% year-over-year increase in earnings per share to $4.07, accompanied by a 47.45% rise in revenue to $4.16 billion. Traders are tracking enterprise storage demand and NAND memory pricing trajectory heading into the print.
    WDC
    Impact
    70
    OCT 10
    SIG
    84%
    WDC
    Western Digital Advances 1.0% with Q3 Revenue Projected Up 47.5% YoY
    Western Digital closed up 1.01% on October 9, showing signs of stabilization following a 14.67% monthly decline. The company is scheduled to report its Q3 financial results on October 22. Consensus projections anticipate a 128.65% year-over-year increase in earnings per share to $4.07, accompanied by a 47.45% rise in revenue to $4.16 billion. Traders are tracking enterprise storage demand and NAND memory pricing trajectory heading into the print.
    → High-capacity storage demand for data center buildouts lifts NAND and HDD average selling prices, expanding gross margins toward $4.07 EPS.
    Impact
    Western Digital closed up 1.01% on October 9, showing signs of stabilization following a 14.67% monthly decline. The company is scheduled to report its Q3 financial results on October 22. Consensus projections anticipate a 128.65% year-over-year increase in earnings per share to $4.07, accompanied by a 47.45% rise in revenue to $4.16 billion. Traders are tracking enterprise storage demand and NAND memory pricing trajectory heading into the print.
    Affected
    WDC
    Transmission
    High-capacity storage demand for data center buildouts lifts NAND and HDD average selling prices, expanding gross margins toward $4.07 EPS.

    How this development reaches the affected companies

    AssetExposure and channelDirectionEvidence
    WDCenterprise storage pricing power and memory cycle gross margin expansionUp1-4wProjected Q3 revenue growth of 47.45% to $4.16B and EPS growth of 128.65% to $4.07.

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    What happened next

    AssetCallBase close+1 day+5 days+20 days
    WDCUp397.28 2026-10-09PendingPendingPending

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