Ryanair Holdings plc vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? Ryanair Holdings plc trades at $58.99 (market cap $29.31B), while Western Digital Corp trades at $550.46 (market cap $168.00B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp is far larger — about 5.7× Ryanair Holdings plc's market cap, and Ryanair Holdings plc pays the higher dividend (1.68%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| RYAAY | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $29.31B | $168.00B |
Sector | Industrials | Technology |
52-Week High | $73.82 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $53.24 | $67.06 |
Enterprise Value | $26.33B | $166.35B |
Dividend Yield | 1.68% | 0.12% |
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Ryanair is the leading airline group by passenger numbers in Europe. The company employs a low-cost no-frills model to offer low fares to leisure customers on short-haul intra-European routes. In 2020, the most recent pre-pandemic fiscal year, the company carried 149 million passengers, utilizing a fleet of 467 Boeing 737 aircraft across its 1,800 routes. To keep costs low the company serves predominantly lower-cost secondary airports. The company generated sales of EUR 8.5 billion in fiscal 2020.
Read more on RYAAY →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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