Wdc stock price forecast market sentiment around "wdc stock

Market sentiment around "wdc stock price forecast" has shifted positively after stronger than expected Q1 revenue at $3.10B, driven by enterprise SSD sales. Short-term technical charts show support near $52, with potential breakout above $60 if volumes stay high. Now the most important inputs to a discounted cash flow are the discount rate, and of course, the actual cash flows. You don't have to agree with these inputs, I recommend redoing the calculations yourself and playing with them. The DCF also does not consider the possible cyclicality of an industry, or a company's future capital requirements, so it does not give a full picture of a company's potential performance. Given that we are looking at Western Digital as potential shareholders, the cost of equity is used as the discount rate, rather than the cost of capital (or weighted average cost of capital, WACC) which accounts for debt. In this calculation we've used 8.3%, which is based on a levered beta of 1.139. Beta is a measure of a stock's volatility, compared to the market as a whole. We get our beta from the industry average beta of globally comparable companies, with an imposed limit between 0.8 and 2.0, which is a reasonable range for a stable business. In related news, CEO Irving Tan sold 8,621 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $75.90, for a total value of $654,333.90. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 594,836 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $45,148,052.40. The trade was a 1.43% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink . Also, insider Vidyadhara K. Gubbi sold 11,343 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $90.29, for a total transaction of $1,024,159.47. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 151,596 shares in the company, valued at $13,687,602.84. This represents a 6.96% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 49,730 shares of company stock valued at $3,921,594. 0.30% of the stock is owned by insiders. Analysts tracking semiconductor sector rotation see the "wdc stock price forecast" benefiting as cyclical capital inflows target undervalued storage names. Price consolidation around $54 hints at accumulation phases from large funds.