GEN
Gen Digital Inc.Evidence as of 2026-09-02Overview · Gen Digital Inc.
Gen Digital Inc. provides cyber safety solutions for consumers in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Japan. It offers security and performance products comprising that provide real-time protection for PCs, Macs and mobile devices against malware, viruses, adware, and other online threats; and Norton and LifeLock identity theft protection solution that offe…
Management team
- Mr. Bryan Seuk Ko J.D. · Chief Legal Officer, Secretary & Head of Corporate DevelopmentFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Natalie Marie Derse · EVP, CFO & Principal Accounting OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Vincent Pilette · CEO, President & DirectorFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Jason Starr · Head of Investor RelationFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
−0.2 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Mixed ( -0.2 of a possible +2; was -0.2 before debate) with high confidence. Revenue in fiscal Q1 2027 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-08-04) is reported at $ 1,336,000,000, up from $ 1,240,000,000 in Q3 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-02-03); earlier quarters in the 12-quarter window include $ 1,220,000,000 in Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-11-04) and $ 1,257,000,000 in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-08-08).
Gross profit margin compressed slightly to about 77.1% in fiscal Q1 2027 (gross profit $ 1,029,000,000 on revenue $ 1,336,000,000) from roughly 78–79% in the comparable prior quarters. Net income rose to $ 215,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2027 with diluted EPS of $ 0.36, versus $ 192,000,000 and $ 0.31 in Q3 2026 and $ 134,000,000 and $ 0.21 in Q2 2026. Shares outstanding and weighted-average diluted shares are declining (common shares outstanding from 616,301,369 as of 27 January 2025 to 598,587,032 as of 4 August 2026; weighted-average diluted shares from 624,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 to 603,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2027).
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue was $1,336,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2027, ended 3 July 2026, up from $1,240,000,000 in fiscal Q3 2026, ended 2 January 2026; prior quarters in the 12-quarter window include $1,220,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026, ended 3 October 2025, and $1,257,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026, ended 4 July 2025.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000849399-26-000031Gross profit margin compressed slightly to about 77.1% in fiscal Q1 2027 (gross profit $1,029,000,000 on revenue $1,336,000,000) from roughly 78–79% in the prior comparable quarters (gross profit/revenue: fiscal Q3 2026 78.5%, fiscal Q2 2026 78.2%, fiscal Q1 2026 78.8%).
XBRL companyfacts · 0000849399-26-000031Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
A DEFA14A (definitive proxy amendment) for Gen Digital Inc. was filed on 2026-08-28.
DEFA14A filed 2026-08-28Insider transaction reports on Form 4 were filed on 2026-08-28 (the 4 filed 28 August 2026).
4 filed 2026-08-28Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Six-month momentum is +34.7% and ranks in the 90th percentile of the 547-stock research universe as of 2026-09-01.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01weakened in debateThe 12_1 momentum measure is -2.6% and ranks in the 28th percentile of the 547-stock research universe as of 2026-09-01.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01weakened in debateReads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
Institutional 13F-reported holdings totaled $3.0M as of 2026-03-31, with two reporting holders and a net one fewer holder versus the prior quarter.
13F holdings · 2 filers · as of 2026-03-31Reported institutional value fell 61.2% quarter-over-quarter as of 2026-03-31, and the filing shows one exited position in the latest reported quarter.
13F holdings · 2 filers · as of 2026-03-31Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
A headline on 1 September 2026 reported Gen Digital stock was down 3.2% and described the shares as potentially undervalued with a GF Score of 86/100.
News · gurufocus.com · 2026-09-01Two outlets on 1 September 2026 ran comparative value pieces titled 'GEN or ZETA: Which Is the Better Value Stock Right Now?', indicating coverage framing GEN in a stock-to-stock valuation comparison.
News · zacks.com · 2026-09-01Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
Vlcek Ondrej (Director) sold 200,000 shares for $6.0M on 2026-08-27; the filing does not indicate a 10b5-1 trading plan.
Form 4 · Vlcek Ondrej (Director) · $6.0M sold · 2026-08-27Vlcek Ondrej (Director) sold 152,358 shares for $4.4M on 2026-08-25; the filing does not indicate a 10b5-1 trading plan.
Form 4 · Vlcek Ondrej (Director) · $4.4M sold · 2026-08-25Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The implied free cash flow (FCF) growth rate that today's price would justify, under the model's stated discount and terminal assumptions, is 0.14% per year (0.0014).
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closePrice-to-free-cash-flow (P/FCF, trailing twelve months) is 13.72.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several company-filed fundamentals and market-signal claims jointly support a favorable read: recent SEC-filed quarters show rising revenue, expanding net income and EPS, ongoing share repurchases with declining share count, and a reduction in long-term debt — each claim is directly sourced to the company filings and is therefore strong evidence of improving reported financials. Market-data claims (notably six-month momentum, price above the 50- and 200-day SMAs with a recent golden cross, and strong 6-month relative strength vs. SPY) provide corroborating market-interest signals; these are medium-strength indicators derived from the research-universe signal set. Valuation and cash-flow claims (healthy trailing FCF, moderate P/FCF and EV/EBITDA) add an earnings-and-cash-flow–based constructive read; these are medium-strength, model-derived measures. To rebut bearish points: the slight gross-margin compression (claim fundamentals-1) is small in absolute terms and comes from the same SEC source as the stronger profit and EPS improvements, so its practical significance is limited; insider sales and low 13F institutional reported holdings (insider-0..4, ownership-0..2) are factual but mixed — public Form 4s show multiple sales clustered in August while separate filings and news items record new institutional purchases in late August/early September (news-3), making the net interpretation weaker and dependent on timing and parsing status of filings. Overall, the strongest evidence comes from audited filing figures for revenue, net income, EPS, share repurchases, and debt reduction, while the bear case relies more on market-activity signals and timing-sensitive insider/13F items that are medium-to-weak in isolation.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
diversified0.28
42 surviving claims rest on 23 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 17% of them, and 98% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The surviving read is moderately fragile: many claims are supported by a fairly broad set of sources, but a single analyst still contributes a meaningful share and almost the entire desk case survived challenge — which raises the chance that overlooked common errors or biased inputs could persist. In other words, the dataset is informative but warrants cautious weighting in downstream work; corroboration from independent filings or market updates would materially strengthen confidence.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 11th of 21 in Software—Infrastructure (as of 2026-09-01).
6-month relative strength ranks 12th of 21 in Software—Infrastructure (as of 2026-09-01).
90-day volatility ranks 19th of 21 in Software—Infrastructure (as of 2026-09-01).
dividend yield ranks 1st of 19 in Software—Infrastructure (as of 2026-09-01).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
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What this was built from
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12 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.7 to the score
6 documents· 2 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash−0.1 to the score
3 holdings records· 1 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis−0.6 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
5 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state — stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−0.8 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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