Western Digital Is Riding The AI Storage Wave. What Comes Next?
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- Western Digital has run from about $29 to near $280 in the past year, powered by demand for high-capacity storage tied to AI workloads.
- After a strong fiscal Q1 2026, management guided Q2 2026 revenue to about $2.9B with improving margins, leaning into cloud and data-center customers.
- The big debate: is this a classic storage upcycle or a longer AI-driven shift that keeps Western Digital central to the data infrastructure stack?
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