Seagate has complicated the task of a direct comparison with the results of Western Digital, but managed to extract some information from supporting documents, placed in a special section of the company website. Seagate for the three months prior to the 27th of September this year, managed to get a revenue of $ 3.489 billion and net income of $ 427 million , WD - made $ 3.8 billion and a net profit a $ 495 million profit
A year earlier, Seagate with revenue of $ 3.732 billion, net income reached $ 582 million in principle, the trends are the same for both the largest manufacturers of hard drives: revenue and profits decline as prices are slowly coming back to normal after the end of the jump in 2011, and the costs of the development of new magnetic recording technology are growing. A year ago, Seagate has spent on the respective needs $ 268 million in the third quarter this year - $ 294 million Seagate CEO said the company continues to expect growth in demand for hard disk drives, dictated by the cloud environments, network storage and the mobile segment.
Seagate increased revenues, profit margins and earnings per share diluted share compared to the previous quarter of this year. The quarterly dividend was increased by 13%.
In the last quarter, which was the first in the financial calendar 2014, Seagate's managed to increase its average selling hard drive capacity up to 875 GB: 733 GB from a year earlier and 863 GB in the previous quarter. The overall size of the market Seagate estimated at 140 million hard drives - it's a million more than under the version of Western Digital.
Seagate sold in the last quarter 55.7 million hard drives from WD, the figure was 62.6 million. A year earlier, Seagate managed to sell 58 million hard drives, and in the previous quarter - 53.9 million units. If Western Digital profits and revenues are reduced with an increase in the number of CDs sold, then Seagate growth in sales is only visible in the quarterly comparison. Average selling price of Seagate hard drive for the year decreased slightly - from $ 63 to $ 62, while for competitor it was reduced from $ 62 to $ 58.