Western Digital Corporation Dividends

The next dividend date for Western Digital Corporation has not yet been scheduled.

What is a Dividend Date

When we talk about a dividend date, we’re referring specifically to the ex-dividend date.

This is the date on which all stockholders will earn a dividend. Technically, a person needs to be the owner of a share of stock as of the night before the ex-dividend date in order to earn the dividend.

The ex-dividend date is different than the date when the dividend is issued. Although you earn a dividend on the ex-dividend date, that dividend is typically not disbursed to your account until several weeks later.

Most brokerages will automatically credit the dividend to your account once it’s issued.

Historical Dividends for Western Digital Corporation (WDC)

Date	Declaration Date	Record Date	Payment Date	Amount
06/04/2025	04/29/2025	06/04/2025	06/18/2025	$0.10
04/02/2020	02/13/2020	04/03/2020	04/17/2020	$0.38
01/02/2020	11/14/2019	01/03/2020	01/21/2020	$0.38
10/03/2019	08/07/2019	10/04/2019	10/22/2019	$0.38
06/27/2019	05/02/2019	06/28/2019	07/15/2019	$0.38
03/28/2019	02/14/2019	03/29/2019	04/15/2019	$0.38
12/27/2018	11/07/2018	12/28/2018	01/14/2019	$0.38
09/27/2018	08/01/2018	09/28/2018	10/15/2018	$0.38
06/28/2018	05/02/2018	06/29/2018	07/16/2018	$0.38
03/28/2018	01/29/2018	03/30/2018	04/16/2018	$0.38
12/28/2017	11/01/2017	12/29/2017	01/16/2018	$0.38
09/28/2017	08/03/2017	09/29/2017	10/16/2017	$0.38
06/28/2017	05/03/2017	06/30/2017	07/17/2017	$0.38
03/29/2017	02/01/2017	03/31/2017	04/17/2017	$0.38
12/28/2016	11/03/2016	12/30/2016	01/17/2017	$0.38
09/28/2016	08/03/2016	09/30/2016	10/17/2016	$0.38
06/29/2016	05/04/2016	07/01/2016	07/15/2016	$0.38
03/30/2016	02/10/2016	04/01/2016	04/15/2016	$0.38
12/29/2015	11/03/2015	01/01/2016	01/15/2016	$0.38
09/30/2015	08/04/2015	10/02/2015	10/15/2015	$0.38
06/30/2015	05/05/2015	07/03/2015	07/15/2015	$0.38
03/31/2015	02/03/2015	04/03/2015	04/16/2015	$0.38
01/30/2015	---	---	---	$0.40
12/30/2014	11/05/2014	01/02/2015	01/15/2015	$0.30
10/01/2014	08/04/2014	10/03/2014	10/15/2014	$0.30
06/25/2014	05/14/2014	06/27/2014	07/15/2014	$0.30
03/26/2014	02/06/2014	03/28/2014	04/15/2014	$0.23
12/24/2013	11/13/2013	12/27/2013	01/15/2014	$0.23
09/26/2013	09/19/2013	09/30/2013	10/15/2013	$0.19
06/26/2013	05/16/2013	06/28/2013	07/15/2013	$0.19
03/26/2013	02/14/2013	03/29/2013	04/15/2013	$0.19
12/12/2012	12/04/2012	12/14/2012	12/26/2012	$0.19
09/26/2012	---	09/28/2012	10/15/2012	$0.19

More About Western Digital Corporation

Website

https://www.westerndigital.com

Country

USA

Full Time Employees

51,000

Western Digital Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, rest of Asia, and internationally. It offers client devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), gaming consoles, and set top boxes; and flash-based embedded storage products for mobile phones, tablets, notebook PCs, and other portable and wearable devices, as well as automotive, Internet of Things, industrial, and connected home applications. The company also provides enterprise HDDs; enterprise SSDs consisting of flash-based SSDs and software solutions for use in enterprise servers, online transactions, artificial intelligence-related workloads, data analysis, and other enterprise applications; and data storage platforms. In addition, it offers external HDD storage products in mobile and desktop form; client portable SSDs; removable cards that are used in consumer devices comprising mobile phones, tablets, imaging systems, and cameras and smart video systems; universal serial bus flash drives for use in the computing and consumer markets; and wireless drive products used in-field backup of created content, as well as wireless streaming of high-definition movies, photos, music, documents to tablets, smartphones, and PCs. The company sells its products under the Western Digital, SanDisk, and WD brands to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, dealers, resellers, and retailers. Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Owning Western Digital Corporation Stock on the Dividend Date

If you own Western Digital Corporation stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.

Theoretically, the price of Western Digital Corporation stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Western Digital Corporation stock).

Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Western Digital Corporation stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Western Digital Corporation dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.

Owning Western Digital Corporation Options on the Dividend Date

Unlike the stock price, which will normally have an abrupt decrease by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, option prices typically do not reflect the same phenomenon.

The reason is that in the time leading up to the ex-dividend date, that projected drop in Western Digital Corporation stock price from the dividend is already baked into Western Digital Corporation option prices.

That means the prices of call options that overlap the Western Digital Corporation ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.

The prices of put options that overlap the Western Digital Corporation ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.

Owners of Western Digital Corporation call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Western Digital Corporation put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.

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