Movement Alert｜Western Digital Overnight Decline 3.28%, Storage Sector Continues Pullback Amid Quarter-End Profit-Taking

On July 2, Western Digital fell 3.28% overnight, trading at $578.0/share, with turnover of $20.104 million.

On the news front, the storage chip sector extended its collective pullback, with peer stocks SanDisk declining 3.92% and Seagate Technology falling 2.05%, indicating broad sector pressure. The Q2 storage chip and hardware supply chain index had surged nearly 160%, and Western Digital itself posted substantial cumulative gains. Short-term profit-taking funds continued to exit positions as quarter-end portfolio rebalancing intensified sector rotation and individual stock correction pressure.

Market analysis suggests that AI-driven storage demand expectations had pushed related stock valuations to elevated levels, and the current pullback represents a normal technical correction. Notably, an earlier $1.28 million deep out-of-the-money put option sell order in the options market signaled that institutional investors still maintain a moderately bullish medium-to-long-term outlook, betting that the stock price will not decline significantly from current levels.

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