Western Digital forward PE WDC

Share price divided by analysts' consensus earnings for the next twelve months, since 1996.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 15.5×
10-year median: 8.8×
Against its 10-year history: 78th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 4.3× to 117×
Peer median: 14.5×

Western Digital's forward PE is 15.5× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is above its ten-year median of 8.8×, higher than on 78% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 4.3× in Nov 2016 to 117× in May 2022.

The median for 10 computer hardware stocks of a similar size is 14.5×.

Forward PE over time

median 8.8×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	15.5×	15.5×	42.1×
2025	15.5×	5.0×	15.5×
2024	6.3×	6.2×	20.7×
2023	19.8×	16.3×	19.9×
2022	88.7×	7.6×	117×
2021	8.6×	5.4×	8.6×
2020	8.1×	5.5×	16.3×
2019	14.4×	11.2×	27.5×
2018	11.0×	4.8×	14.4×
2017	4.6×	4.6×	5.8×
2016	5.4×	4.3×	9.5×
2015	10.3×	10.0×	13.1×
2014	12.2×	8.1×	12.3×
2013	8.4×	4.9×	8.4×
2012	4.7×	2.9×	5.0×
2011	3.3×	2.7×	10.3×
2010	9.7×	6.6×	10.3×
2009	6.6×	3.8×	6.7×
2008	5.4×	4.9×	16.7×
2007	7.4×	5.6×	10.0×

Against its peers

Companies in Computer Hardware nearest Western Digital's size, closest first, today.

Company	Forward PE
WDCWestern Digital	15.5×
STXSeagate Technology	16.8×
SNDKSandisk	5.8×
HPEHewlett Packard Enterprise	12.2×
ANETArista Networks	36.9×
DELLDell Technologies	n/m
NTAPNetApp	21.7×
PEverpure	37.9×
HPQHP	11.2×
SMCISuper Micro Computer	7.6×
LOGILogitech International	n/m
Peer median	14.5×

Where Western Digital ranks

#22of 95Technology stocks with the lowest forward PE

What the forward PE tells you

Price divided by what analysts expect the company to earn over the next twelve months. It answers "what am I paying for next year" instead of last year.

Estimates are opinions. When forward PE is far below trailing PE, analysts expect a big jump in earnings. If that jump slips, the stock was not as cheap as it looked.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.