Valued at a market cap of $22 billion, Western Digital Corporation (WDC) develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions. The San Jose, California-based company offers a broad range of hard disk drives and solid state drives used in various consumer electronic devices, including desktop PCs, video game consoles, and digital video recorders, to name a few, and is expected to announce its fiscal Q1 earnings results after the market closes on Thursday, Oct. 24. Ahead of this event, analysts expect the tech company to report a profit of $1.52 per share, up 177.2% from a loss o…