Is it safe?
Can GEN take a bad year?
Gen Digital carries $7.79B of net debt at 3.15× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$7.79B
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.15×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.80× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.33
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 3.73×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $8.20B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $411M
- Net debt
- $7.79B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.47B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.12B
- Debt / equity
- 3.14×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.32×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- −6.0%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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