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Gen Digital
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- Russell 1000
What Gen Digital is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.
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The latest read
Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.
- Revenue over the four quarters to July 3, 2026: $5.08 billion, up 20% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
- Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to July 3, 2026: $1.55 billion, up 15% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
- Capital expenditure over the four quarters to July 3, 2026: $0.02 billion, about level with a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
- Share buybacks in the fiscal year to April 3, 2026: $0.63 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
- Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to April 3, 2026: $3.48 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
- Latest earnings call or results release (August 6, 2026): sentiment 0.70 on a −1 to +1 scale (confident, opportunity-framed), confidence 0.85 of 1.Palanor Discourse
- Guidance in the last 90 days: 2 outlook figures raised, 0 lowered, 0 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
- Latest annual report (filed May 21, 2026): 1 risk factor added, 3 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
- Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $16.4 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
- 689 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+16 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
- H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 21 (23 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
Company Posture
How Company Posture is measured →What Gen Digital is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.
Expanding · Confident
Expanding ↔ Retrenching
Expanding
- Capital spending45th pct
- Debt raised97th pct
- Buybacks vs capex32nd pct
- Hiring filings90th pct
- Deals and private raises40th pct
- Patent publications58th pct
Confident ↔ Hedging
Confident
- Call sentiment47th pct
- Call confidence60th pct
- Guidance changes74th pct
- Risk factors added66th pct
- Insider open-market trades65th pct
Pressure
Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).
- Fails-to-deliver75th pct
- Stress filings49th pct
Credit
How these are built →Gen Digital's borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.
Debt on the balance sheet
$8.2B
- Due within a year $0.2B
- Longer term $8.0B
- Default point $4.2B (short + ½ long)
Finance leases included · Jul 3, 2026 filing
Bonds priced, last 12 months
None
U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.
Charts
Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.
Cash flow
Capital returned and raised
What the company says
Hiring and ownership
Filings and records
The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.
- Oct 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (GEN DIGITAL INC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (RICH FEUER ANDERSON)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 20, 2026Patent
- Oct 9, 20268-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- Sep 22, 2026Patent
- Sep 15, 2026Patent
- Sep 11, 20268-KShareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
- Sep 8, 2026Patent
- Sep 8, 2026Patent
- Jul 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (RICH FEUER ANDERSON)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Jul 17, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (GEN DIGITAL INC)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Jun 30, 2026Private creditLoans held by business development companies (Gen Digital, Inc.)$10.0 million at cost
- May 21, 202610-KAnnual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 3 removed
- Apr 23, 2026Trademark
- Apr 23, 2026Trademark
- Apr 23, 2026Trademark
- Apr 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (RICH FEUER ANDERSON)first_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Apr 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (GEN DIGITAL INC)first_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Apr 13, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (MEHLMAN CONSULTING, INC.)first_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
- Mar 27, 20268-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- Mar 20, 2026Trademark
- Jan 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (RICH FEUER ANDERSON)fourth_quarter 2025 · $0.1 million
- Nov 7, 20258-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- Sep 12, 20258-KShareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
- Jul 22, 20258-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- May 16, 20258-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- May 15, 202510-KAnnual report (10-K)8 risk factors added, 1 removed
- Apr 17, 20258-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- Apr 17, 20258-KAcquisition or sale completedItem 2.01
- Feb 28, 20258-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- Dec 11, 20248-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- May 16, 202410-KAnnual report (10-K)2 risk factors added, 1 removed
Peers
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