Western Digital informa el segundo trimestre fiscal 2022 Resultados financieros

Corporación digital occidental. (Nasdaq: WDC) today reported fiscal second quarter 2022 resultados financieros. “I’m proud of the Western Digital team for delivering another quarter of strong results that exceeded guidance, even in the midst of ongoing supply chain disruptions and COVID-related challenges,” dijo david goeckeler, CEO de Western Digital. “While we continue to experience strong demand across our end markets, these challenges continue to present a headwind to near-term results. We’ve executed well in building a solid foundation for future profitable growth driven by innovative products within our flash and hard drive businesses. As these transitory headwinds subside, we expect to emerge in a stronger position to drive better through-cycle results, creating value for our shareholders, employees and customers.”

La empresa generó $666 million in cash flow from operations, made a total debt repayment of $2.21 billón, issued $1.00 billion in notes and ended the quarter with $2.53 miles de millones de efectivo total y equivalentes de efectivo. Durante el trimestre, the company fully repaid the remaining balance of its Term-Loan B-4 in an amount of $943 millón, and repaid $1.27 billion on its Term-Loan A-1. Además, the company closed a public offering of $1.00 billion aggregate principal amount in senior unsecured notes, bringing total gross debt outstanding to $7.40 billion at the end of the fiscal second quarter.

New End Market Summary
Nube representada 40% de los ingresos totales. Supply chain disruptions impacted cloud hard drive deployments at certain customers, which led to a sequential decline in exabyte shipments in the fiscal second quarter. Sin embargo, healthy overall demand for capacity enterprise drives, along with Western Digital’s leadership position at the 18 terabyte capacity point, drove a greater than 50% year-over-year increase in exabyte shipments.

Client accounted for 38% de los ingresos totales. The continued ramp of 5G phones helped offset declines in both client SSD and client hard drive revenue. Within mobile, shipments of BiCS5 products into leading 5G smartphones increased over 60% sequentially and 50% año tras año, led by strong content growth.

Consumidor representado 22% de los ingresos totales. With a strong holiday season, retail flash led the sequential growth in Consumer. The WD_BLACK premium SSD product line, optimized for the best gaming experience, continues to gain momentum, with revenue increasing approximately 50% sequentially and doubling in calendar year 2021.