Gen Digital Inc.
Gen Digital Inc. (GEN) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Software - Infrastructure, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Tempe, United States and has 3,900 employees. The company is worth $14.9B and trades at 14.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $5B in fiscal 2026, up 27.1% from the year before. Net income was $973M. The share price is 21.4% below its 52-week high of $31.65. It pays a dividend yielding 2.01%. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $56.86M. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 4 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -2.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,053.33▲ +5.3%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 19 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $24.16 | $27.19 | $27.38 | $22.82 | $21.43 | $25.98 | $20.78 | $25.52 | $18.90 | $28.06 | $23.89 | $21.00 | $25.66 | $23.58 | $18.82 | $15.65 | $16.74 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 11.3% a year plus a 2.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 18.0 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 11.3% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 14.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
Dividend growing 0.0% a year against a 10.3% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRMBTrimble Inc | $64.01 | — | 2.9x | 0.00% | -1.94% | $14.93B |
| ITGartner Inc | $234.44 | 19.9x | — | 0.00% | 113.58% | $14.8B |
| ASTSAST SpaceMobile, Inc. | $38.77 | — | 6.1x | 0.00% | -45.62% | $15.09B |
| GDDYGoDaddy Inc. | $114.73 |
| $17.89 |
| $13.52 |
| P/E | 18.0x | 15.4x | 26.4x | 28.8x | 10.7x | 15.2x | 28.2x | 3.4x | 510.4x | 11.1x | — | 6.4x | 16.7x | 20.0x | 22.2x | 11.8x | 20.6x | 19.2x | — | 29.4x |
| P/S | 4.2x | 2.9x | 4.3x | 4.5x | 4.4x | 4.4x | 5.9x | 4.9x | 6.4x | 4.6x | 4.2x | 4.1x | 3.6x | 4.2x | 2.4x | 2.0x | 1.9x | 2.2x | 2.4x | 2.0x |
| P/B | 3.1x | 5.6x | 7.4x | 8.0x | 6.8x | — | — | 1224.0x | 2.7x | 2.3x | 4.9x | 4.0x | 2.4x | 3.1x | 3.0x | 2.7x | 2.6x | 2.9x | 3.5x | 1.0x |
| EPS | $1.57 | $1.03 | $0.95 | $2.14 | $1.41 | $0.92 | $6.05 | $0.05 | $1.70 | -$0.17 | $3.71 | $1.26 | $1.28 | $1.06 | $1.59 | $0.76 | $0.87 | -$8.17 | $0.46 |
| Dividend yield | 1.92% | 1.55% | 1.84% | 1.83% | 2.19% | 2.33% | 1.92% | 60.15% | 1.37% | 1.59% | 1.07% | 18.31% | 2.86% | 2.34% | 1.91% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Payout | 47.62% | 23.89% | 48.54% | 52.63% | 23.36% | 35.46% | 54.35% | 206.61% | 700.00% | 17.65% | — | 117.92% | 47.62% | 46.88% | 42.45% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Profit margin | 17.64% | 19.46% | 16.34% | 15.97% | 40.22% | 29.90% | 21.72% | 156.10% | 1.26% | 44.47% | -2.64% | 69.11% | 22.19% | 21.47% | 10.93% | 17.64% | 9.64% | 11.93% | -110.34% | 6.98% |
| ROE | 15.70% | 37.27% | 28.34% | 28.36% | 61.99% | — | — | 38870.00% | 0.54% | 22.66% | -3.04% | 67.68% | 14.79% | 15.49% | 13.79% | 23.30% | 13.18% | 15.70% | -163.64% | 3.65% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
7 methods answered, across 4 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+36.1% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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