Company Analysis

GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. (GENK)

Nasdaq: GENK · Retail-Eating Places · Cerritos, CA · filing with the SEC since 2021
Grade3.9
◀ Past 4.3● Present 3.4▶ Future 4.3
1 est.

The grade of GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.9/10
◀ Past4.325% of the headline
● Present3.445% of the headline
▶ Future4.330% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

4.3/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
3.4/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

1 warning event since 2021; the latest 2025-04-24.

weight 45% of this tense · 34th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s filings since 2021 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2025-04-24) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
7.3/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+9.1% a year over 4 filed years; profitable in 3 of 4.

weight 33% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s 4 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $164 million in fiscal 2022 to $213 million in fiscal 2025, up 9.1% a year; it rose in 3 of 3 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 3 of 4 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span9.1%top 35% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 10% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 10% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
1.8/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 10.4% a year. 1% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 18th percentile among 37 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 2 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 10.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 1% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 9% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

3.4/1045% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
2.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -11%: lost 11¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 90%: owes 90¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 23rd percentile among 41 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. lost about 11 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 90 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 10.6% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 35% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 19% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 39% of 43 in its family; net margin -1.4%.

weight 33% of this tense · 39th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $213 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 21% by size; a net margin of -1.4% ranks in the bottom 34%; revenue growth of 9.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 36% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$213Mbottom 21% of its family
  • net margin-1.4%bottom 34% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth9.1%top 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
5.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.0/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 34 members with one.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title.
How it was reasoned
family median, 34 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s leadership is put at 5.0 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 34 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 33% of 41 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 41 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $3 million against debt of $14 million leaves -4.1% of its assets as net cash, top 43% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -11.4% of revenue (bottom 8%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-4.1%top 43% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-11.4%bottom 8% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
6.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 40% of 42 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 60th percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 9.1% a year over the last three filed years against 9.1% over all 4, speeding up (top 50% of its family); the newest year grew 2% (bottom 32%); capital spending grew 50.7% a year (top 1%) (its annual reports). GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yeartop 50% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth2.0%bottom 32% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending50.7%top 1% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
2.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 25% of 39 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $213 million in fiscal 2025 came in 9.6% below the $235 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 22% of its family); net income of $3 million against a prior three-year average of $6 million (bottom 19%); a net margin of -1.4% against 3.7% before (bottom 35%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-9.6%bottom 22% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-147%bottom 19% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-5.2 pointsbottom 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton GENK · research, not advice