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Gen Digital Inc GEN

Gen Digital Inc scores good on business quality (6.9 of 10). Here is why, in plain words, and what our sealed record shows.

Last price$23.25Oct 9, 2026
Business qualityGood
Next earningsOct 28, 2026
Insiders, 90 daysSelling

Why it matters

  1. What Gen Digital Inc does

    Gen Digital sells consumer cyber safety software like Norton and Avast, charging subscription fees to millions of households worldwide.

  2. What it does best

    Gen dominates consumer cyber safety with a gross margin of 78.0%, beating peer CRWD at 75.2%. This edge stems from deep brand equity and massive scale in consumer endpoints that rivals struggle to replicate cost-effectively.

  3. The main risk

    High debt load of $8.2 billion leaves the balance sheet vulnerable. With interest coverage at just 4.0x, a sudden spike in borrowing costs or cash flow disruption would immediately pinch financial flexibility.

Quality, check by check

Scored against its own industry, from company filings.

ProfitabilityStrong

Operating margin hits 42.8% alongside an 80th percentile FCF margin, expanding rapidly on software scale economies.

MoatFair

A top-quartile gross margin of 78% anchors its consumer safety moat, locking in users through trusted brand heritage.

GrowthFast

Revenue is growing at 27.1%, up sharply from prior years as digital safety adoption accelerates across its core consumer subscriber base.

Financial healthWeak

Debt-to-equity of 3.1x and interest coverage of 4.0x constrain the balance sheet, despite $1.5B in free cash flow. Getting softer due to leverage.

Insiders

Executives and directors, from SEC Form 4 filings we read ourselves. Open market trades only; grants, option exercises and pre-planned sales left out.

2 sold $15.5M outside pre-planned sales.

Our sealed record on GEN

Verdicts appear here 30 days after we publish them; members see today's. Each one is in the nightly ledger, fingerprinted the night it was made.

The first sealed verdicts appear here on Oct 11, 2026.

Questions

Is GEN a good business?

Gen Digital Inc scores good on the Cluenex quality check (6.9 of 10), measured against its own industry. Profitability is strong, moat fair, growth fast and financial health weak.

Are insiders buying GEN?

In the last 90 days of SEC Form 4 filings: 2 sold $15.5M outside pre-planned sales.

When does GEN report earnings?

Oct 28, 2026.

For members

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Cite this page: Cluenex, “Gen Digital Inc (GEN)”, https://cluenex.com/stocks/gen/, data as of Oct 10, 2026.