Gen Digital Inc (GEN) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $30.14, with 3.77 million shares of worth about $113.52 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 11.05% during that period and on July 17, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.40%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 617.00M shares, out of which, 561.01M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 1.55% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 0.40%. Year-to-date (YTD), GEN shares are showing a performance of 18.85% which increased to 10.08% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $22.74 but also hit the highest price of $31.72 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Gen Digital Inc shares is 4.59 million. The stock is currently trading 1.77% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 3.70% for SMA50 and it goes to 7.79% higher than SMA200.
Gen Digital Inc (NASDAQ: GEN) currently have 617.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 86.60% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $18.69B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.00. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 29.25, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.03 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.34 and has Quick Ratio of 0.51 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 3.66. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GEN, volatility over the week remained 2.09% while standing at 1.92% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 12.66% while it is estimated to increase by 12.34% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 12.52% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 2.88% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by B. Riley Securities on July 14, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $46 to it. Coverage by Evercore ISI stated Gen Digital Inc (GEN) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on July 01, 2025, suggesting a price target of $35 for the stock. On March 18, 2025, Morgan Stanley Resumed their recommendations, while on December 04, 2024, UBS Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $36. Stock get an Overweight rating from Wells Fargo on October 24, 2024.
