GEN Restaurant Group $GENK Read from its own SEC filings · nothing written, nothing inferred
🫧 Edgar looked up GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. ($GENK). Last filing: 8-K (1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement), 2026-09-29. 9 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months. Auditor change (8-K Item 4.01) filed 2025-04-24.
🔖 Exposure: revenue $212.5M (FY2025), total debt $13.6M. Experience: revenue up 2.0% on the year, up 9.1% a year over 3 years; operating margin -9.4%, down from 0.2%. Soundness: equity 10.2% of assets, return on equity -73.1%. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $190.2M and $254.1M next year (method v4.1: its own 3-year record of growth weighed at 40% against $100M–1B filers; across 2019–2025, 69.0% landed inside, 83.4% on the one year the method never saw). In a shock year the stress range is $176.8M to $274.2M. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (31 filers, $50M+ revenue, retail-eating places): operating margin -9.4% against a 4.3% median; growth 2.0% against 4.7%.
Gold paid out, navy kept. Kept share × return on equity = the growth it can fund itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.
Speed and cash · fiscal 2025
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| Cash flow (op · inv · fin · free) | $3M · −$28M · $3M · −$24M |
| Investment book (cash · short · long) | $3M · — · — · current ratio 0.42 |
| Revenue swing · equity of assets | 6.2% · 10.2% |
GEN Restaurant Group is growing faster than its size class, with steadier revenue. Its own audited SEC figures.
The figures, as filed
| Fiscal year end | 2025-12-31 |
| Revenue | $213M |
| Revenue, on the year | 2.0% |
| Revenue, a year over the record | 9.1% |
| Operating margin | −9.4% |
| Operating margin, prior year | 0.2% |
| Net margin | −9.1% |
| Research and development | not filed separately |
| Total debt | $14M |
| Equity of assets | 10.2% |
| Return on equity | −73.1% |
| Payout of profit | — |
| Dividend per share | $0.03 |
| Earnings per share | $-0.59 |
| Book value per share | $5.13 |
| Revenue per share | $41.16 |
| Shares outstanding | 5,164,000 |
| Audited years read | 4 |
Peers: the median of 31 filers with $50M+ revenue in retail-eating places.
Health HarborGEN Restaurant Group sails as: New ship
Health watch · 12 monthsDirector or officer change ×2
Sailing speed follows growth: 9.1% a year crosses the harbor in 53 seconds.
🌊 Visit the Bay →No warning signs on the measures below.
Boat condition = number of warning signs: a serious warning filing in 12 months; liabilities over assets; slow and jumpy; negative operating cash; an 80% revenue range of ±25% or wider. A picture of the signs, not a rating and not investment advice.
- 8-K · 2026-09-29 · 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement; 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 8-K · 2026-08-10 · 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 10-Q · 2026-08-10
- 8-K · 2026-08-10 · 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 8-K · 2026-06-26 · 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
- 8-K · 2026-06-03 · 5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers; 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
Figures are as filed in audited 10-K reports and can move with restatements, acquisitions, disposals or a change in fiscal year. A range set from how past company-years turned out is not a promise about the next one, and says nothing about the share price. Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets and no trading recommendations. Figures from the SEC’s own data · every filing · this page as JSON · ask about another company