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Gen Digital $GEN

🫧 Edgar looked up Gen Digital Inc. ($GEN). Last filing: 8-K (5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders), 2026-09-11. 7 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $5.0B (FY2026), total debt $8.2B. Experience: revenue up 27.1% on the year, up 15.6% a year over 4 years; operating margin 42.4%, up from 40.9%. Soundness: equity 16.7% of assets, return on equity 37.3%, payout 32.1% of profit. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $4.8B and $7.1B next year (method v3, set from 4,599 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (140 filers, $50M+ revenue, services-prepackaged software): operating margin 42.4% against a 0.9% median; growth 27.1% against 13.0%.

Gen Digital Inc. against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 0.9%42.4%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 13.0%27.1%Equity of assetsPeer median 50.0%16.7%Return on equityPeer median 2.3%37.3%Payout of profitPeer median 30.6%32.1%Gold tick: the median of 11–136 peers with $50M+ revenue in services-prepackaged software
Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit32.1% paid out67.9% keptHanded back per share$0.5Growth its own profit can fund25.3%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed27.1%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2026-04-03
Revenue$5.0B
Revenue, on the year27.1%
Revenue, a year over the record15.6%
Operating margin42.4%
Operating margin, prior year40.9%
Net margin19.5%
Research and development$409M · 8.2% of revenue
Free cash flow$1.5B
Cash$411M
Total debt$8.2B
Equity of assets16.7%
Return on equity37.3%
Payout of profit32.1%
Dividend per share$0.5
Audited years read5

Peers: the median of 140 filers with $50M+ revenue in services-prepackaged software.

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