Western Digital (WDC) Stock Soars 260% in 2025: AI Storage Champion or Late-Stage Risk?
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) has gone from a battered cyclical hardware name to one of 2025’s loudest AI winners. As of December 8, 2025, the stock is trading around $168.89, up roughly 260% year-to-date and sitting just below its all‑time high near $178.EBC Financial Group The move has turned Western Digital into the best‑performing stock in the S&P 500 in 2025, as investors crowd into what’s increasingly being seen as “AI plumbing” – the storage infrastructure that keeps all those models fed with data.EBC Financial Group+1 At the same time, the company has completed a spin‑off of its flash