Acting on panic never helps investors, but it's still a good idea to question why you're really buying individual investments.
Consider digital storage firm Western Digital
Here at the Motley Fool, we like to consider both the good and bad sides of an investment, so in this article, so I'm highlighting three of the main bearish arguments on Western Digital today. Be sure to read the bullish side as well, and then weigh in with your own comments below or rate Western Digital in CAPS.
1. Not meeting expectations
Unlike the expectations-beating quarterly earnings and guidance that competing memory and storage maker SMART Modular Technologies
2. Margin attack
Despite strong full-year outlooks from Intel
3. Heated competition
With Seagate holding a strong lead in the enterprise space, counting giants like IBM
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