Baxter International Inc vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? Baxter International Inc trades at $27.61 (market cap $14.27B), while Western Digital Corp trades at $451.5 (market cap $150.95B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp is far larger — about 10.6× Baxter International Inc's market cap, and Baxter International Inc is trading nearer its 52-week high, Western Digital Corp nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| BAX | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $14.27B | $150.95B |
Sector | Health | Technology |
52-Week High | $28.35 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $15.80 | $74.66 |
Enterprise Value | $21.79B | $150.42B |
Dividend Yield | 0.14% | 0.14% |
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Baxter offers a variety of medical instruments and supplies to caregivers. It enhanced its portfolio of hospital-focused offerings by acquiring Hillrom in late 2021. Legacy Baxter offers tools to help patients with acute and chronic kidney failure. It also sells a variety of injectable therapies for use in care settings, such as IV pumps, and administrative sets.
Read more on BAX →Western Digital is a vertically integrated supplier of data storage solutions, spanning both hard disk drives and solid-state drives. In the HDD market it forms a practical duopoly with Seagate, and it is the largest global producer of NAND flash chips for SSDs in a joint venture with competitor Kioxia.
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