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Profile - Western Digital Corp. (NYSE:WDC)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
20511 Lake Forest Drive
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Phone: (949) 672-7000
Fax: (949) 672-5490
Email: investor@www.wdc.com
Employees (last reported count): 7,321
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Computer Storage Devices
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 9%
·Institutional: 57% (63% of float)
(179 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 11.9M shares (+10.53%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Western Digital Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets hard drives featuring leading-edge technology. The Company's hard drives are designed for the desktop PC market and for the emerging market for hard drives specially designed for digital audio-visual applications, such as new digital video recording devices, digital cable set-top boxes, satellite television boxes, audio/ visual juke boxes and video game devices. The Company's hard drive products currently include 3.5-inch form factor hard drives ranging in storage capacity from 7.5 gigabytes (GB) to 45.0 GB. The Company's WD Caviar and WD Protege brand products are designed to serve the advanced and value portions, respectively, of the desktop PC hard drive market, and its WD Performer brand products are designed to serve the emerging audio-visual portion of the hard drive market.
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Financial Summary
WDC designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of hard drives for the desktop PC market, the high-end hard drive market and for the emerging market for hard drives specifically designed for audio-visual applications. For the fiscal year ended 6/29/01, revenues fell less then 1% to $1.95 billion. Net loss before extraordinary items and accounting change fell 66% to $119.8 million. Results reflect lower volumes related to the softness in PC demand, offset by improved margins.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Thomas Pardun, 56
Chairman
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Matthew Massengill, 39
Pres, CEO, Director
$869K
Arif Shakeel, 46
COO
549K
Steven Campbell, 44
Sr. VP of Engineering
411K
W. Michael Williams, 41
Sr. VP and Gen. Mang., Connex, Inc.
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Dollar amounts are as of 30-June-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc..
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:WDCAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 20-Dec-2000
$2.188
Recent Price$3.18 
52-Week High
on 6-Oct-2000
$6.813
Beta2.05 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)930.8K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)443.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-44.7%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-25.8%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$563.6M
Shares Outstanding177.2M
Float161.3M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 4-June-1997
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$0.04 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.71 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.34 
Sales (ttm)$11.49 
Cash (mrq*)$0.93 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)83.85 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.28 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.95B
EBITDA (ttm*)-$66.6M
Income available to common (ttm)-$119.8M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)-6.1%
Operating Margin (ttm)-3.4%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsJune 29
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
29-June-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-21.20%
Return on EquityN/A 
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)1.13 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)16.54 
Total Cash (mrq)$167.6M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short3.89M
Percent of Float2.4%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
3.39M
Short Ratio3.84 
Daily Volume1.01M
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001, except mrq*/ttm* items as of 29-June-2001)

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