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May 01, 2026
Western Digital Corporation: Western Digital Earnings: Margins Breach 50% as HDD Structural Shift Accelerates
Summary
Western Digital is a leading vertically integrated supplier of hard disk drives. The HDD market is a practical duopoly, with Western Digital and Seagate being the two largest players. Western Digital designs and manufactures its HDDs, with much of the manufa
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Eric Compton
Equity Analyst
Eric Compton, CFA, is an equity analyst for Morningstar Research Services LLC, covering the U.S. and Canadian banking sectors, including the U.S. money center banks, U.S. regional banks, and the Big Six Canadian banks.Before joining Morningstar in 2015, Compton was a business analyst for ESIS, a global provider of risk management products and a subsidiary of ACE Group. Compton holds a bachelor's degree in applied health science from Wheaton College. He has passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst® program and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.
