Western Digital (WDC) Stock News Today: Nasdaq-100 Entry, AI-Driven HDD Boom, Earnings Outlook, and Analyst Price Targets (December 23, 2025)
Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC) is in the spotlight on December 23, 2025, as the stock digests a major index milestone, a powerful AI-and-cloud demand narrative, and a drumbeat of bullish analyst revisions that have pushed some price targets into the $200s. After closing recently around the mid-$170s, WDC traded in a roughly $174.50–$177.61 range in the latest session data available for Dec. 23, reflecting a modest pullback after a sharp multi-month run. Investing.com+1 At the same time, the broader story remains unchanged: investors are betting that AI workloads are turning data storage into a structural bottleneck—and that Western Digital,