Smith & Nephew plc vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? Smith & Nephew plc trades at $30.45 (market cap $12.64B), while Western Digital Corp trades at $554.06 (market cap $168.00B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp is far larger — about 13.3× Smith & Nephew plc's market cap, and Smith & Nephew plc pays the higher dividend (2.57%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SNN | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $12.64B | $168.00B |
Sector | Health | Technology |
52-Week High | $38.70 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $28.73 | $67.06 |
Enterprise Value | $15.41B | $166.35B |
Dividend Yield | 2.57% | 0.12% |
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Smith & Nephew designs, manufactures, and markets orthopedic devices, sports medicine and arthroscopic technologies, and wound-care solutions. Roughly 42% of the U.K.-based firm's revenue comes from orthopedic products, and another 30% is sports medicine and ENT. The remaining 28% of revenue is from the advanced wound therapy segment. Roughly half of Smith & Nephew's total revenue comes from the United States, just over 30% is from other developed markets, and emerging markets account for the remainder.
Read more on SNN →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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