Forensic Analysis · Technology / Software · as of Aug 11, 2026

Gen Digital Inc. (GEN)

A forensic read on Gen Digital Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

C · Mixed — selective

Forensic grade

Grey Zone

Financial health

1.7

Distress distance

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Earnings quality

Forensic signals

17.3

P / E (ttm)

37.3%

ROE

$17.6B

Market cap

1.78%

Dividend yield

27.1%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Gen Digital Inc. earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 1.7, placing it in the Grey zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

10.9%

FY2026

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 10.9% in the latest fiscal year and rising from 9% — around its ~10% cost of capital, so growth is roughly value-neutral.

-0.3%/yr

FY2023–FY2026

Share count. Diluted share count changed -1% over the last 3 years to FY2026 (-0.3%/yr). Roughly flat — buybacks ($634M) are about offsetting stock comp ($237M), not shrinking the count. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.

-95%

FY2019→FY2020

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~95% in FY2020 (from FY2019) and hasn't been restored since. It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$5.00B

Revenue Growth YoY+27.1%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+14.6%

Net Margin19.5%

Free Cash Flow$1.52B

Return on Equity37.3%

Debt / Equity3.14x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.