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Moody's affirms Western Digital's Baa3 senior unsecured rating; outlook remains negative

Rating Action: Moody's affirms Western Digital's Baa3 senior unsecured rating; outlook remains negative. Global Credit Research- 19 Oct 2020. $12 billion of rated debt affected.
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Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital is a developer, manufacturer, and provider of data storage devices and solutions. The company's portfolio of technology and products address the following markets: Client Devices, which consist of hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, flash-based embedded storage products, and flash-based memory wafers and components; Data Center Devices and Solutions, which consist of enterprise HDDs and enterprise SSDs, data center software and system solutions; and Client Solutions, which consist of HDDs and SSDs embedded into external storage products and removable flash-based products, such as cards, universal serial bus flash drives and wireless drives.

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Moody's Investors Service
Moody's Investors Service

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    76,000 structured finance obligations



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