GEN

Gen Digital Inc. ·Nasdaq Global Select·Technology
28.64 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
41.9%
Brown Bear Score
60.3%
Business Conviction Score
36.5%
Position Health Score
31.9%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -10.1% · range 17.89–32.16

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 9.8%
OCF / assets 9.9%
FCF / revenue 30.9%
Gross margin 78.0%
ROIC 16.2%
Forward P/E 8.7

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2026).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +103.1pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-11-04 · consensus EPS 0.72

Q2 23 revenue: 946.00mQ2 23 net income: 189.00mQ2 23 EPS: 0.29Q3 23 revenue: 948.00mQ3 23 net income: 149.00mQ3 23 EPS: 0.23Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 951.00mQ4 23 net income: 144.00mQ4 23 EPS: 0.22Q1 24 revenue: 967.00mQ1 24 net income: 134.00mQ1 24 EPS: 0.21Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 965.00mQ2 24 net income: 181.00mQ2 24 EPS: 0.29Q3 24 revenue: 974.00mQ3 24 net income: 161.00mQ3 24 EPS: 0.26Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 986.00mQ4 24 net income: 159.00mQ4 24 EPS: 0.26Q1 25 revenue: 1.01bnQ1 25 net income: 142.00mQ1 25 EPS: 0.23Q1 25Q3 25 revenue: 1.26bnQ3 25 net income: 135.00mQ3 25 EPS: 0.22Q4 25 revenue: 1.22bnQ4 25 net income: 134.00mQ4 25 EPS: 0.21Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 1.24bnQ1 26 net income: 192.00mQ1 26 EPS: 0.31Q2 26 revenue: 1.28bnQ2 26 net income: 512.00mQ2 26 EPS: 0.83Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.21–0.83, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-04-03 (derived) 1.28bn +27.0% 512.00m 0.83 0.67 +2.0% 2026-05-21
2026-01-02 1.24bn +25.8% 192.00m 0.31 0.64 +0.3% 2026-02-06
2025-10-03 1.22bn +25.3% 134.00m 0.21 0.62 +0.6% 2025-11-07
2025-07-04 1.26bn +30.3% 135.00m 0.22 2025-08-13

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±4.1%
On an ordinary two days ±1.4% — filings move it 2.9× as much
Direction 8 up, 4 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +3.1% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-08-05: price -9.1%Q3 22 revenue +8.1% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-09: price +4.7%Q3 22Q4 22 revenue +33.3% year on yearQ4 22 filed 2023-02-06: price +2.5%Q2 23 revenue +33.8% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-04: price +13.4%Q2 23Q3 23 revenue +26.7% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-07: price +10.7%Q4 23 revenue +1.6% year on yearQ4 23 filed 2024-02-05: price -3.0%Q4 23Q2 24 revenue +2.0% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-07: price +1.3%Q3 24 revenue +2.7% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-31: price +5.1%Q3 24Q4 24 revenue +3.7% year on yearQ4 24 filed 2025-01-31: price -3.2%Q3 25 revenue +30.3% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-08-13: price -1.1%Q3 25Q4 25 revenue +25.3% year on yearQ4 25 filed 2025-11-07: price +3.5%Q1 26 revenue +25.8% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-02-06: price +9.7%Q1 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-01-02 2026-02-06 +25.8% +9.7% -8.6%
2025-10-03 2025-11-07 +25.3% +3.5% +3.2%
2025-07-04 2025-08-13 +30.3% -1.1% -9.1%
2024-12-27 2025-01-31 +3.7% -3.2% +4.9%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 619.0M as at 2026-04-03
Change over 1 year -0.8%
Change over 3 years -0.8%
Public float $15.56bn as at 2025-10-03 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 26.08 — 28.78
Protective stop 25.30 (Atr, 7.8% risk)
Support 24.97 (3 touches, 14.7% away)
Resistance (— away)

Takeaway The shares are about 14.7% above 24.97, a price buyers have stepped in at before. There is no ceiling to point to, because the stock is trading where it has not traded before and nobody has sold it at these levels. That floor has held 3 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 7.8% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 7/21/42 (80% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness40% percentile
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 26.16 to 27.69. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days +7.8%
63 days +29.9%
126 days +13.8%
252 days -6.9%
Below 252d high10.9%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionExtended
Trend slopeRising strongly
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway Positive Kalman trend with moderate extension; constructive for momentum but watch entry risk.

Volatility

State Expanded out of a squeeze
Current band width17.5% of price
Recent tightest10.0% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 97.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.76×
Band 25.01 — 29.82

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 18% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 97% of the time. It has started moving again since, swinging about 1.8 times as widely as during that quiet spell. A stock that has been quiet tends to make its next move look big by comparison, simply because the recent bar was low.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 25.81–29.292026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Deteriorating
  2. Trigger 2 Relative momentum rank back above 0.45 repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 MACD histogram acceleration turns positive secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 Relative strength stabilisation state change relative momentum rank does not yet confirm RS improvement · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 Relative momentum rank above 0.55 +0.30 rank relative momentum leadership is not yet strong enough for the next action tier · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

GEN: no binary-event flag. Near IV 35%, far IV 31% (ratio 1.13), implied move 4.4%.

Implied volatility 35% near (9d) · 31% far (65d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.13× near/far
Historical volatility 31%
Implied vs historical 1.11×
Implied move ±4.4% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.49×
Skew Call Skew (0.88×)
Put wall 18.00 (-37.1% away)
Gamma pin 18.00
  • Term structure inverted (near 35% IV vs far 31% IV, ratio 1.13)

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs more for the next few weeks than for the next few months. Traders usually pay up like that when they know something is coming soon — results, a court ruling, a regulatory decision. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 4.4% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Mixed Rotation Phase

Rotation health 60.3/100; Positive Rotation.

Rotation health 60.3
Rotation strength 67.0
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 93.7 87.3
Stock vs SPY Leading 107.4 103.5
Sector vs SPY Leading 113.6 115.9

Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+10.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+7.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 78.0% (+21.3)
  • ROIC quality: 16.2% (+9.6)
  • FCF margin quality: 30.9% (+20.0)
  • ROIC improving by 3.4 pts (+2.0)
  • FCF margin improving by -0.1 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.037) (+2.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (0.11) (+4.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 19.6 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 3.6% (+5.1)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 2.9% (+5.0)
  • Track 1: positive MACD regime (+3.0)
  • Track 1: MACD line/signal repair quality (+8.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope improving (+3.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.05 (+1.0)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 9.3% (+5.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 4.3% (+3.0)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.75 (+2.0)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak/falling ADX (19.8, flat)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.25)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 78.8, 5-day change +21.2
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (2.26)
  • Gross margin improving by -2.3 pts (+-3.0)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.