Gen Digital Inc. (GEN)

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Gen Digital Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 5 warning events of 2 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 2 times, the latest 2018-08-13); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, 3 times, the latest 2018-11-07) (its current reports).

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Gen Digital Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $4.0 billion in fiscal 2017 to $5.0 billion in fiscal 2026, up 2.5% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 39% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2019; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-04-03, Gen Digital Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 48% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 11 sales (1 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04, buying about $217 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-04-03, Gen Digital Inc. earned about 37 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 25 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 83 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Gen Digital Inc.'s standing among 218 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 8% by size; a net margin of 19.5% ranks in the top 15%; revenue growth of 14.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 41% (its annual reports).

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Gen Digital Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Pilette, Vincent (CEO, Pres. & Chair, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-12-11, 6.9 years (top 26% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.8 years (top 40%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (top 31%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Gen Digital Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $411 million against debt of $8.0 billion leaves -48.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 1% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 30.5% of revenue (top 13%); a gross margin of 78.5% (top 25%); research spending of 8.2% of revenue (bottom 13%) (its annual report).

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Gen Digital Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 14.6% a year over the last three filed years against 2.5% over all 10, speeding up (top 2% of its family); the newest year grew 26.6% (top 22%); research spending grew 9.3% a year (top 45%); capital spending grew 54% a year (top 12%) (its annual reports). Gen Digital Inc. reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2026: Subscription and Service Revenue at $5.0 billion (100%), Net Interest Income On Notes Receivable at $18 million (0%); 1 of 1 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Gen Digital Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 16.6% above the $4.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 15% of its family); net income of $973 million against a prior three-year average of $861 million (bottom 33%); a net margin of 19.5% against 24.2% before (bottom 19%) (its annual reports).