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Broadcomvs.Western Digital

AVGO vs WDC · both in Chips & accelerators, part of the AI & digital infrastructure value chain: Designs and builds the processors, accelerators and memory that train and run AI.

Broadcom is about 11× larger than Western Digital by market cap; Western Digital trades at the lower P/E (27.7 vs 65.2); year to date, Western Digital leads (+238.2% vs +15.6%).

Side by side

AVGOWDC
Market cap$1.9T$181B
Price$399.97$582.59
Today−0.3%+0.8%
Return YTD+15.6%+238.2%
Return 1Y+45.2%+795.5%
P/E65.227.7
P/S25.315.3
P/B21.818.7

Data as of 2026-07-11 · updates daily after U.S. close

The two companies

BroadcomAVGO

NASDAQ · USA

Designs custom AI chips (ASICs) for hyperscalers — including Google's TPUs — as well as networking chips and infrastructure software (VMware).

AI hardwareCustom siliconInfrastructure software
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Western DigitalWDC

NASDAQ · USA

Manufacturer of hard drives for data centers. AI is creating record demand for massive, low-cost storage of training data.

Data center storage
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