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AVT vs WDC
Side-by-side comparison of Avnet Inc. (AVT) and Western Digital Corporation (WDC): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both AVT and WDC operate in Electronic Components (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
- WDC is the larger of the two at $162.44B, about 22.1x AVT ($7.35B).
- Over the past year, AVT is up 70.6% and WDC is up 454.5% - WDC leads by 383.9 points.
- AVT has been more active in the news (18 items in the past 4 weeks vs 16 for WDC).
- WDC has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 8 for AVT).
- Company
- Avnet Inc.
- Western Digital Corporation
- Price
- $88.71-0.88%
- $453.73+0.72%
- Market cap
- $7.35B
- $162.44B
- 1M return
- -0.25%
- -13.90%
- 1Y return
- +70.56%
- +454.47%
- Industry
- Electronic Components
- Electronic Components
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 18
- 16
- Recent ratings
- 8
- 25
Avnet Inc.
Avnet, Inc., a technology solutions company, markets, sells, and distributes electronic components. The company operates through two segments, Electronic Components and Farnell. The Electronic Components segment markets, sells, and distributes semiconductors; interconnect, passive, and electromechanical devices; and other integrated components from electronic component manufacturers. It also offers design chain support that provides engineers with technical design solutions; engineering and technical resources to support product design, bill of materials development, and technical education and training; and supply chain solutions that provide support and logistical services to original equipment manufacturers, electronic manufacturing service providers, and electronic component manufacturers. In addition, this segment provides integrated solutions, such as technical design, integration, and assembly of embedded products, and systems and solutions primarily for industrial applications, as well as for intelligent embedded and innovative embedded display solutions comprising touch and passive displays. Further, it develops and manufactures standard board and industrial subsystems, and application-specific devices that enable it to produce systems tailored to specific customer requirements. This segment serves various markets, such as automotive, medical, defense, aerospace, telecommunications, industrial, and digital editing. The Farnell segment distributes kits, tools, and electronic and industrial automation components, as well as test and measurement products to engineers and entrepreneurs. It has operations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Avnet, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions. It offers client devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, such as desktop and notebook personal computers (PCs), smart video systems, gaming consoles, and set top boxes; 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; flash-based memory wafers; and embedded storage solutions and flash products. The company also provides data center devices and solutions comprising enterprise helium hard drives; enterprise SSDs consisting of flash-based SSDs and software solutions for use in enterprise servers, online transactions, data analysis, and other enterprise applications; data center solutions, including HDDs and drive configurations for use in data storage systems and tiered storage models; and data storage platforms and systems. In addition, it offers client solutions, such as external HDD storage products in mobile and desktop form; client SSDs; removable cards that are used in consumer devices comprising mobile phones, tablets, imaging systems, and still and action video cameras; universal serial bus flash drives for use in the computing and consumer markets; and wireless drive products used in-field back up of created content, as well as wireless streaming of high-definition movies, photos, music, and documents to tablets, smartphones, and PCs. The company sells its products under the G-Technology, SanDisk, and WD brands to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, resellers, and retailers. It operates in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, rest of Asia, and internationally. Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Latest AVT
- SVP, General Counsel Mccoy Michael Ryan covered exercise/tax liability with 2,318 shares and was granted 5,537 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 102,431 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Executive Officer Gallagher Philip R was granted 29,811 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 12,476 shares, increasing direct ownership by 6% to 307,249 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP, CIO Chan Leng Jin was granted 3,194 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 1,337 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 56,790 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP, Chief People Officer Arnold Ken E. was granted 5,111 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 2,139 shares, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 85,923 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Financial Officer Jacobson Kenneth A was granted 6,388 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 2,674 shares, increasing direct ownership by 5% to 76,521 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP, Chief Digital Officer Youngblood Jay David was granted 7,090 shares, increasing direct ownership by 107% to 13,725 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP, CIO Chan Leng Jin was granted 14,157 shares, increasing direct ownership by 35% to 54,933 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP, Chief People Officer Arnold Ken E. was granted 21,452 shares, increasing direct ownership by 35% to 82,951 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Financial Officer Jacobson Kenneth A was granted 30,488 shares, increasing direct ownership by 72% to 72,807 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Executive Officer Gallagher Philip R was granted 120,991 shares, increasing direct ownership by 72% to 289,914 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest WDC
- Chief Legal Officer & Corp Sec Tregillis Cynthia L was granted 3,878 shares, sold $696,280 worth of shares (1,483 units at $469.51) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, converted options into 16 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 2,402 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.01% to 112,155 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Product Officer Shihab Ahmed Mohammed converted options into 15 shares, covered exercise/tax liability with 2,741 shares and was granted 6,722 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 163,702 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Executive Officer Tan Irving converted options into 74 shares, covered exercise/tax liability with 3,790 shares and was granted 16,548 shares, increasing direct ownership by 4% to 379,147 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP & Chief Accounting Officer Feller Brad was granted 2,068 shares, increasing direct ownership by 21% to 12,043 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief of Global Operations Gubbi Vidyadhara K covered exercise/tax liability with 3,199 shares, was granted 5,171 shares and converted options into 18 shares, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 84,116 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Financial Officer Sennesael Kris covered exercise/tax liability with 4,317 shares, was granted 8,274 shares and converted options into 19 shares, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 173,709 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Sales & Mrktng Officer Davis Brian Scott was granted 3,619 shares, converted options into 14 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 2,615 shares, increasing direct ownership by 1% to 101,321 units (SEC Form 4)
- Amendment: SEC Form 8-K/A filed by Western Digital Corporation
- Western Digital Corporation filed SEC Form 8-K: Other Events, Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
- Chief Legal Officer & Corp Sec Tregillis Cynthia L converted options into 14 shares, covered exercise/tax liability with 1,488 shares and sold $417,339 worth of shares (919 units at $454.12) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 112,146 units (SEC Form 4)