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$3.75B revenue; 54.4% gross margin
Revenue and margins accelerated strongly in Q4 with gross margin at guidance high end
Management stated Q4 revenue, gross margin, and EPS were at or above the high end of the guidance range, with pricing and mix contributing to margin expansion.
Read the full earnings transcript for WDC Q4 2026, or visit the Western Digital Corporation company page.
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Agentic AI and inference persistence driving structural HDD storage demand
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Financial Performance Summary
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This transition creates a fundamentally more data-intensive workload and one that is increasingly persistent rather than transient.
Irving Tan
Context
CEO Irving Tan was explaining why Agentic AI shifts storage demand from transient builds to persistent data retention. He described how AI usage scales as training-to-inference evolves, including that training creates initial data while inference generates and retains data continuously. He then tied the emergence of Agentic AI to data generation at every workflow step, increasing both the volume created and the amount that must be stored over time.
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