Seagate Technology Holdings

STX

Computer Hardware · Technology

Price

$787.66

+42.17 (+5.66%)

Market Cap

$176.62B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

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A high-quality business with solid fundamentals.

Share count falling — buybacks

−11.4% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 245.0M (2021) → 217.0M (2025)

Seagate Technology Holdings plc provides data storage technology and solutions in Singapore, the United States, the Netherlands, and internationally. It provides mass capacity storage products, including enterprise nearline hard disk drives (HDDs), enterprise nearline solid state drives (SSDs), enterprise nearline systems, video and image HDDs, and network-attached storage drives. The company also offers legacy applications comprising Mission Critical HDDs and SSDs; external storage solutions un

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+44.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

+111.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

$724M/ year

↑ Rising (+11% vs prior year)

8.0% of revenue

Below sector average (15%)

R&D investment increasing — building for the future

Insider Activity

0.3%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$1.1B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Revenue accelerating

Seagate Technology Holdings grew revenue 44% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin

46.5%

Healthy — 46.5% gross margin

Operating Margin

32.1%

Excellent — 32.1% operating margin

ROCE

66.8%

Exceptional — 66.8% return on capital

ROIC above 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns more than 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+24.1%

Fast-growing sales (24.1% YoY)

EPS YoY

+49.3%

Earnings growing fast (49.3% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency

8/8 quarters

Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

120%

Turns 120% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

21.0%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (21.0%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.36

Conservative — low debt load (0.36)

Interest Cover

9.74x

Comfortably covers interest (9.7x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

78.5x

Expensive — P/E 78.5

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward

+55.7

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (78.5 → 22.8)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield

0.30%

Small dividend — 0.30% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth

+2.8%

Dividend flat

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