WDCWestern Digital
+9.9% today · +78.2% over a year
1/10 A 1–10 summary of how an instrument compares with similar ones (same sector and region) by published rules. It describes today's data; it is not a price forecast. More in the glossary → «Balanced» — higher than 55% of the instruments we score
Stability: among the weakest; priced lower than most peers. Dividend yield 0.19%.
Western Digital (WDC) dividends: trailing yield 0.19%, next ex-dividend date 4 Dec 2026, Dividend Safety 39/100.
Yield after tax (estimate)
Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom
- Last 12 months
- 0.19% → 0.16%
- Forward
- 0.24% → 0.20%
Of every 100 paid out
- Withheld at source (United States)
- 15.00%
- Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
- 0.00%
- Cyprus GeSY health contribution
- 2.65%
- You keep
- 82.35%
- Source country assumed: United States (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
- US rate 15 % assumes a W-8BEN form is on file with your broker (US–Cyprus treaty); without it the US withholds 30 %.
- GeSY 2.65 % applies to dividends and interest of every Cyprus resident, domiciled or not, up to €180,000 of income a year.
Cyprus resident, domiciled: 0.16%
Estimate, not tax advice: published rules as of 2026-10-14 for the profile chosen; your broker’s withholding and your own situation can differ. How we estimate tax
Next payment
- Ex-dividend date
- 04 Dec 2026
- Payment date
- 17 Dec 2026
- Amount per share
- $0.175
- Status
- Announced
Dividend profile
- Years without a lower dividend
- 1
- Years without a cut of over 10 %
- 1
- Payout ratio (earnings)
- 2%
- Payout ratio (free cash flow)
- 5%
Annual total matches the company's SEC filing
Our rules see a meaningful risk that this dividend is cut.
Caution. Dividend Safety below 40 points. More in the glossary →Dividend Safety below 40 points.
Dividends per share by year
Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.
Payment history
Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.
| Status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Dec 2026 | 17 Dec 2026 | $0.175 | Regular | Announced | 2 |
| 08 Sep 2026 | 17 Sep 2026 | $0.15 | Regular | Verified | 4 |
| 05 Jun 2026 | 18 Jun 2026 | $0.15 | Regular | Verified | 3 |
| 05 Mar 2026 | 19 Mar 2026 | $0.125 | Regular | Verified | 3 |
Each payment is checked against up to 4 data feeds. Several feeds can share one upstream, so Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.
What dividend safety is made of
0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.
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