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Gen Digital Inc.

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Gen Digital Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended March 2026) was $5.0 billion, up 27.1% from fiscal 2025. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 6.28%, EPS grew 63.6%, free cash flow grew 3.86% and total debt fell 7.98%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for three consecutive years, revenue growth for five; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

24.16 0.66 −2.66%
Market cap
$14.9B
P/E
13.9×
Fwd P/E
15.2×
Dividend yield
2.07%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
1.20
Beneish M
−1.75
Dividend safety
64/100
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Gen Digital Inc. (GEN) Beneish M-score

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Gen Digital Inc.'s Beneish M-score for fiscal 2026 is −1.75; values above −1.78 are the model's flag for possible earnings manipulation — a statistical screen, not a finding.

Beneish M-score, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Beneish M-score Change (points)
FY2026 −1.75 0.81
FY2025 −2.56 0.37
FY2024 −2.93 (1.17)
FY2023 −1.76 0.85
FY2022 −2.62 (0.30)
FY2021 −2.31 0.39
FY2020 −2.71 0.30
FY2019 −3.01 (1.15)
FY2018 −1.87 0.16
FY2017 −2.03 1.45

How fiscal 2026’s score is made up

Component This year Year before Result Points
Days’ sales in receivables index 1.66 — 1.53
Gross margin index 1.02 — 0.54
Asset quality index 1.03 — 0.41
Sales growth index 1.27 — 1.13
Depreciation index 1.00 — 0.12
SG&A index 0.87 — −0.15
Total accruals to total assets (0.04) — −0.17
Leverage index 0.99 — −0.32
Beneish M-score Flagged by the model −1.75

How the Beneish M-score works

M = −4.84 + 0.920 × DSRI + 0.528 × GMI + 0.404 × AQI + 0.892 × SGI + 0.115 × DEPI − 0.172 × SGAI + 4.679 × TATA − 0.327 × LVGI (Beneish, 1999): eight changes in the accounts from one fiscal year to the next, which the model weighs for the pattern seen in companies that later restated their earnings. Higher is worse.

below −2.22Low — no pattern the model associates with manipulation
−2.22 to −1.78Elevated
above −1.78Flagged by the model

−1.78 is the cut-off usually quoted from the paper, −2.22 a common conservative one. A statistical screen, not a finding of wrongdoing.

When asset quality, depreciation or SG&A cannot be worked out, that index is set to 1, as Beneish did, and the breakdown says so; with all three missing there is no score. Depreciation includes amortisation, and asset quality leaves out securities. Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs.

Beneish M-score against peers

Company Beneish M-score
GDDY GoDaddy Inc. compare −3.0×
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AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. compare −2.8×
CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. compare −2.8×
DOCN DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. compare −2.3×
SAIL SailPoint, Inc. compare −2.2×
GEN Gen Digital Inc. −1.8×
NTNX Nutanix compare −1.4×
KSPI Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz Sponsored ADR compare —

What Beneish M-score is

The Beneish M-Score combines eight year-on-year changes in the accounts into a statistical screen for patterns seen in companies that overstated earnings.

−4.84 + 0.920 × DSRI + 0.528 × GMI + 0.404 × AQI + 0.892 × SGI + 0.115 × DEPI − 0.172 × SGAI + 4.679 × TATA − 0.327 × LVGI

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