WD Reports Fiscal Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results

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Western Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: WDC) today reported fiscal third quarter 2026 financial results for the period ended April 3, 2026.

“WD started calendar year 2026 with great execution, driving strong sequential and year-over-year revenue growth in all our end markets, while expanding gross and operating margins. Gross margin exceeded 50%, reflecting our continued delivery of innovation across an expanding set of customers. Given our confidence in the durability of our business, we are also announcing a 20% increase in the quarterly cash dividend on the company’s common stock to $0.15 per share,” said Irving Tan, CEO of WD. “The demand drivers are clear: Virtually every AI workload, from training, inference, agentic AI to physical AI, creates data that is stored persistently and cost-efficiently on HDDs.”

Q3FY26 Financial Highlights
($ in millions, except per share amounts)

Business Outlook for Fiscal Fourth Quarter of 2026

“Our business continues to strengthen with visibility extending as we continue to build momentum across all our end markets, driven by innovation, strong customer engagements, and disciplined execution. We have also strengthened our balance sheet while deploying our robust free cash flow to drive shareholder returns,” said Kris Sennesael, CFO of WD. “For our fiscal fourth quarter of 2026, at the mid-point of the ranges provided in the table below, we expect revenues of $3.65 billion, non-GAAP gross margin of 51.5%, with non-GAAP EPS of $3.25.”

(1) We provide earnings guidance only on a non-GAAP basis because certain information necessary to reconcile such guidance to GAAP is difficult to estimate or cannot be allocated or quantified with certainty and is dependent on future events outside of our control. Please refer to the section titled “Non-GAAP Guidance” under “Discussion Regarding the Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in this press release for additional information regarding the non-GAAP measures, including quantification of known expected adjustment items.

Dividend

WD’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.15 per share of the company’s common stock, which will be paid on June 17, 2026 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on June 5, 2026.