Nasdaq Inc vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? Nasdaq Inc trades at $90.25 (market cap $51.96B), while Western Digital Corp trades at $558 (market cap $168.00B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp is far larger — about 3.2× Nasdaq Inc's market cap, and Nasdaq Inc pays the higher dividend (1.22%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| NDAQ | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $51.96B | $168.00B |
Sector | Financials | Technology |
52-Week High | $100.98 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $76.85 | $67.06 |
Enterprise Value | $59.02B | $166.35B |
Dividend Yield | 1.22% | 0.12% |
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Founded in 1971, Nasdaq is primarily known for its equity exchange, but in addition to its market-services business (about 35% of sales), the company sells and distributes market data as well as offers Nasdaq-branded indexes to asset managers and investors through its information-services segment (30%). Nasdaq's corporate-services business (20%) offers listing services and related investor relations products to publicly traded companies and through the company's market technology group (15%), Nasdaq facilitates the exchange operations of other exchanges throughout the world and provides financial compliance services.
Read more on NDAQ →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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