Gen Digital Inc.
boothcheck covers Gen Digital Inc. (GEN) but does not put one priced-in number on it: here the defensible answer is the evidence rather than a point estimate. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating. Narrative composed July 26, 2026.
- Gen Digital is a high-margin consumer subscription cash machine (about 42% operating margin, free cash flow near $1.5 billion) that allocates cash to acquisitions, buybacks, and a steady dividend. - At $24 the stock trades well below most methods (blended landing near $53) with an inversion-implied margin near 5.6%, but the growth in those frames is largely acquired (MoneyLion), not organic (pro forma growth near 9%). - The risk is the cycle plus leverage: the fast-growing consumer-finance seg
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647 institutional managers reported holding GEN in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 85% of the company; the top 10 hold 47%. 87 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), among others. On the short side, 30.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (4.6 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
GEN's share count grew 5.3% over the past five years even with $2.25B spent on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 13 years running; the current rate is $0.50 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $865.00M in dividends and $1.31B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at GEN over the trailing three years: 2025: 2 buys totaling $457k; 2026: 1 buy totaling $81k. 13 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
GEN's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-05 | +7.2% | -13.7% |
| 2023-11-08 | +10.7% | +18.1% |
| 2024-02-06 | -9.6% | +10.1% |
| 2024-05-17 | +15.3% | +1.8% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
GEN's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-06 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-07 (items 2.02, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-03-27 (items 1.01); 2026-02-05 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-11-07 (items 5.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 26, 2026
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