NASDAQ:WDC 23 October 2025 - 12 December 2025

Western Digital stock has been on a tear in October. On Oct. 23 it closed around $126.63ts2.tech; by Oct. 29, the price had spiked into the $141 range on heavy volumemarketbeat.com. In pre-market trading Oct. 30 it dipped slightlypublic.com but remained near multi-year highs. This rally was punctuated by the after-hours release of Q1 FY2026 results on Oct. 30.

Western Digital’s stock has been on a tear, climbing sharply in mid-October. On Oct. 23 it closed at $126.63, up 5.1% for the dayinvesting.com, and roughly double its price at the start of 2025ts2.tech. The rally reflects strong industry demand: Western Digital says the exploding need for AI and cloud storage is driving customers to hoard high-capacity hard drives. In fact, the company announced in mid-October that it will raise prices across its HDD product line to manage “booming demand”investopedia.com. CEO Irving Tan and other executives have repeatedly stressed that “HDDs will continue to remain the foundation of the world’s data infrastructure” in an AI-driven erastocktitan.netchartmill.com. To support enterprise customers, Western Digital even opened an expanded AI-focused System Integration and Test lab to speed development and deployment of its driveschartmill.com.