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Western Digital Reports Fiscal Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results

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Western Digital Corp. (Nasdaq: WDC) today reported fiscal second quarter 2023 financial results. "The Western Digital team delivered revenue at the high end of our guidance range, despite a challenging flash price environment and continued cloud inventory digestion," said David Goeckeler, Western Digital CEO. "We continue to take action to reset the business in response to the post-pandemic environment by optimizing our cost structure and strengthening our liquidity.

These actions, including strategically reducing our capital expenditures across both flash and HDD and our operating expenses, as well as amending our financial covenants and securing recent financings, will give us the financial flexibility and optionality to weather this cycle, while also positioning us to continue executing our product roadmap and furthering our technical leadership over the long term."



The company generated $35 million in cash flow from operations and ended the quarter with $1.87 billion of total cash and cash equivalents.

Additional details can be found within the company's earnings presentation, which is accessible online at investor.wdc.com.

In the fiscal second quarter:
  • Cloud represented 39% of total revenue. Sequentially, declines in both capacity enterprise drives sold to Cloud customers and smart video customers were partly offset by an increase in flash shipments. The year-over-year decline was primarily due to inventory digestion in hard drives.
  • Client represented 35% of total revenue. Sequentially, the decline was driven by pricing pressure across our flash products, which was partly offset by an increase in hard drive shipments. The year-over-year decline was also due to pricing pressure in flash as well as lower client SSD shipments for PC applications.
  • Consumer represented 26% of revenue. Sequentially, the increase was driven by a seasonal uptick in both retail hard drives and flash. The year-over-year decline was driven by lower retail hard drive shipments and pricing pressure in flash.
Investor Communications
The investment community conference call to discuss these results and the company's business outlook for the fiscal third quarter of 2023 will be broadcast live online today at 1:30 p.m. Pacific/4:30 p.m. Eastern. The live and archived conference call/webcast and the earnings presentation can be accessed online at investor.wdc.com.

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Is it just me or is this really bizarely positively worded, compared to what the numbers actually show - a decrease in practically all sectors, especially Y/Y numbers?
 
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Is it just me or is this really bizarely positively worded, compared to what the numbers actually show - a decrease in practically all sectors, especially Y/Y numbers?

It's how they all report their earnings.. we had a great year offsetting our loses with our superb product portfolio! You have 21 million reasons to believe us Investors!
 
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