On Friday, Gen Digital Inc (NASDAQ: GEN) was -8.54% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $26.00. A 52-week range for GEN has been $19.58 – $31.72.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Technology Sector giant was 11.41%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 12.99%. With a float of $558.04 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $616.00 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 3400 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 76.77%, operating margin of 41.44%, and the pretax margin is 24.59%.
Gen Digital Inc (GEN) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Gen Digital Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Gen Digital Inc is 9.45%, while institutional ownership is 84.17%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 18 ’25, was worth 27,435. In this transaction CFO of this company sold 989 shares at a rate of $27.74, taking the stock ownership to the 333,668 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 26 ’24, when Company’s CLO & Head Corp Aff sold 48,290 for $30.58, making the entire transaction worth $1,476,601. This insider now owns 504,500 shares in total.
Gen Digital Inc (GEN) Recent Fiscal highlights
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.59 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 12.99% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.07% during the next five years compared to 81.21% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Gen Digital Inc (NASDAQ: GEN) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Gen Digital Inc (GEN) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.35. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.77. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 6.88.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.01, a number that is poised to hit 0.58 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.44 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Gen Digital Inc (GEN)
Looking closely at Gen Digital Inc (NASDAQ: GEN), its last 5-days average volume was 4.45 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 3.81 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 20.26%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.84.
During the past 100 days, Gen Digital Inc’s (GEN) raw stochastic average was set at 0.87%, which indicates a significant decrease from 1.61% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 41.09% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 26.49% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $27.31, while its 200-day Moving Average is $27.12. However, in the short run, Gen Digital Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $24.78. Second resistance stands at $25.79. The third major resistance level sits at $26.32. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $23.24, it is likely to go to the next support level at $22.71. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $21.70.
Gen Digital Inc (NASDAQ: GEN) Key Stats
There are 616,301K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 14.66 billion. As of now, sales total 3,812 M while income totals 616,000 K. Its latest quarter income was 986,000 K while its last quarter net income were 159,000 K.
