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Qualcommvs.Western Digital

QCOM 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.

Qualcomm and Western Digital are similar in size by market cap; Qualcomm trades at the lower P/E (20.0 vs 27.7); year to date, Western Digital leads (+238.2% vs +10.6%).

Side by side

QCOMWDC
Market cap$198B$181B
Price$189.16$582.59
Today−1.0%+0.8%
Return YTD+10.6%+238.2%
Return 1Y+18.9%+795.5%
P/E20.027.7
P/S4.515.3
P/B7.318.7

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

The two companies

QualcommQCOM

NASDAQ · USA

Leader in mobile chips and on-device AI — artificial intelligence that runs locally on phones and PCs rather than in the cloud.

On-device AIMobile
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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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