Separate the HDD and Flash businesses into two independent public companies
Delivered after the deadline (52 days after the deadline)
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- Announced
- 30 Oct 2023
- Due
- 31 Dec 2024
- Delivered
- 21 Feb 2025
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The separation is intended to be structured in a tax-free manner and is targeted for the second half of calendar year 2024.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Western Digital announced a target to separate its HDD and Flash businesses by the second half of 2024, but the separation was not completed until February 21, 2025.
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A Western Digital 10-Q filed 2025-05-02
“On February 21, 2025, we completed the separation of our HDD and Flash business units (the “Separation”) to create two independent, public companies” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +0.7% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (1 May 2025 to 6 May 2025). What this measures
Checked 8 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Transaction other
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Separate
- Deliverable
- two independent public companies
- Language
- Aspirational (“aims”, “intends”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: board approval; execution of definitive documentation; receipt of opinions or rulings as to the tax-free nature of the transaction; effectiveness of appropriate filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; completion of audited financials
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Financing
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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