In recent trading session, Gen Digital Inc (NASDAQ:GEN) saw 0.72 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.00. Company’s recent per share price level of $29.88 trading at -$0.14 or -0.48% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $18.53B. That most recent trading price of GEN’s stock is at a discount of -6.16% from its 52-week high price of $31.72 and is indicating a premium of 23.9% from its 52-week low price of $22.74. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 3.22 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 4.59 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Gen Digital Inc (GEN), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 2.07. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 2 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 2 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 0 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Gen Digital Inc (NASDAQ:GEN) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.48%, in the last five days GEN remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 07/17/25 when the stock touched $29.88 price level, adding 0.93% to its value on the day. Gen Digital Inc’s shares saw a change of 17.80% in year-to-date performance and have moved 0.66% in past 5-day. Gen Digital Inc (NASDAQ:GEN) showed a performance of -0.48% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 17.65 million shares which calculate 3.36 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 27 to the stock, which implies a fall of -10.67% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 25 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 29. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 16.33% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 16.33% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 2.88% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 12.66% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 12.52%.
GEN Dividends
Gen Digital Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-06 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 1.67%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.50 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 2.18%.
Gen Digital Inc (NASDAQ:GEN)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 9.49% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 101.33 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 111.95%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 101.33% institutions for Gen Digital Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at GEN for having 66.61 million shares of worth $1.66 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 10.7261 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 53.89 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 8.6786 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.35 billion.
