Western Digital Announces Fiscal Year Revenue of $15.4B

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Western Digital® Corp. today reported revenue of $15.4 billion and net income of $1.7 billion, or $6.75 per share for fiscal year 2013, compared to fiscal 2012 revenue of $12.5 billion and net income of $1.6 billion, or $6.58 per share. On a non-GAAP basis, fiscal 2013 net income was $2.1 billion or $8.53 per share, compared to fiscal 2012 net income of $2.1 billion or $8.61 per share.

For its fourth fiscal quarter ended June 28, 2013, the company reported revenue of $3.7 billion, hard-drive shipments of 59.9 million and net income of $416 million, or $1.71 per share. On a non-GAAP basis, net income was $477 million or $1.96 per share. In the year-ago quarter, the company reported revenue of $4.8 billion, net income of $745 million, or $2.87 per share, and shipped 71.0 million hard drives. Non-GAAP net income in the year-ago quarter was $872 million, or $3.35 per share. The company generated $684 million in cash from operations during the June quarter, ending with total cash and cash equivalents of $4.3 billion. For fiscal year 2013, the company generated $3.1 billion in cash from operations and its free cash flow totaled $2.2 billion.4 During the quarter, the company utilized $235 million to buy back 4.4 million shares of common stock. On May 15, the company declared a $0.25 per common share dividend, which was paid on July 15.
 
That little flood really helped these guys, didn't it!

HD prices are still artificially high. And how come they stopped at 4TB? Ahh yes, it bites into your profits if you spend on R&D.
 
Isn't it going to reach some point where the storage space on a single disk is going to outweigh failure rates? Too many eggs in one basket?
 
Isn't it going to reach some point where the storage space on a single disk is going to outweigh failure rates? Too many eggs in one basket?

Who knows that they have up their sleeves at R&D dept's as disk manufacturers. Anecdotal evidence would point to that, but they may surprise us. At the very least 4TB drives running in raid arrays is still covering quite a bit of information.
 
Isn't it going to reach some point where the storage space on a single disk is going to outweigh failure rates? Too many eggs in one basket?
Even my lowly desktop is mirror raid... This should be common place by now, but its not.
Most people are woefully ignorant at how much at risk they are to lose their files.. not one person I talked to know DVR and CDRs do not last that long.. nearly no one knows what M-disk is either.
 
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