Synopsys, Inc. vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? Synopsys, Inc. trades at $388.58 (market cap $72.47B), while Western Digital Corp trades at $550.46 (market cap $168.00B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp is far larger — about 2.3× Synopsys, Inc.'s market cap, and Western Digital Corp pays a 0.12% dividend while Synopsys, Inc. pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SNPS | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $72.47B | $168.00B |
Sector | Technology | Technology |
52-Week High | $645.59 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $378.46 | $67.06 |
Enterprise Value | $80.82B | $166.35B |
Dividend Yield | — | 0.12% |
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Synopsys is a provider of electronic design automation software, intellectual property, and software integrity products. EDA software automates the chip design process, enhancing design accuracy, productivity, and complexity in a full-flow end-to-end solution. The firm's growing SI business allows customers to continuously manage and test the code base for security and quality. Synopsys' comprehensive portfolio is benefiting from a mutual convergence of semiconductor companies moving up-stack toward systems-like companies, and systems companies moving down-stack toward in-house chip design. The resulting expansion in EDA customers alongside secular digitalization of various end markets benefits EDA vendors like Synopsys.
Read more on SNPS →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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