Estee Lauder Companies Inc vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? Estee Lauder Companies Inc trades at $88.01 (market cap $31.76B), while Western Digital Corp trades at $450.8 (market cap $150.95B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp is far larger — about 4.8× Estee Lauder Companies Inc's market cap, and Estee Lauder Companies Inc pays the higher dividend (1.59%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| EL | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $31.76B | $150.95B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Technology |
52-Week High | $119.61 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $67.23 | $74.66 |
Enterprise Value | $37.93B | $150.42B |
Dividend Yield | 1.59% | 0.14% |
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Estee Lauder is the world leader in the global prestige beauty market, participating across skincare (56% of fiscal 2022 sales), makeup (26%), fragrance (14%), and haircare (4%) categories, with popular brands such as Estee Lauder, Clinique, MAC, La Mer, Jo Malone, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, Too Faced, Origins, Dr. Jart+, and The Ordinary. The firm operates in 150 countries, with 26% of fiscal 2022 revenue stemming from the Americas, 43% from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and 31% from Asia-Pacific. The company sells its products through department stores, travel retail, multi-brand specialty beauty stores, brand-dedicated freestanding stores, e-commerce, salons/spas, and perfumeries.
Read more on EL →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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