GEN (Gen Digital) Debt-to-EBITDA : (As of Jun. 2026)

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GEN Gen Digital Inc GEN
86 GF Score
Price $29.15
GF Value $33.47
Valuation Modestly Undervalued
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What is Gen Digital Debt-to-EBITDA?

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Gen Digital's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was $201 Mil. Gen Digital's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was $7,975 Mil. Gen Digital's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was $2,280 Mil. Gen Digital's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was 3.59.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for Gen Digital's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

GEN' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.93   Med: 4.26   Max: 18.69
Current: 3.19

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Gen Digital was 18.69. The lowest was 2.93. And the median was 4.26.

GEN's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
76.95% of 1727 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 0.99 vs GEN: 3.19

Gen Digital  (NAS:GEN) Debt-to-EBITDA Explanation

In the calculation of Debt-to-EBITDA, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by EBITDA. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

Gen Digital Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

Gen Digital Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Gen Digital's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Gen Digital Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

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GEN vs NTNX, RBRK, TOST: Debt-to-EBITDA Comparison

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Gen Digital's Debt-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Gen Digital Debt-to-EBITDA vs Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Gen Digital's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Gen Digital's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.


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Gen Digital Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Gen Digital's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2026 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(200 + 8060) / 2573
=3.21

Gen Digital's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(201 + 7975) / 2280
=3.59

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is four times the quarterly (Jun. 2026) EBITDA data.

Is Gen Digital (GEN) Overvalued in 2026?

Based on GuruFocus' analysis, Gen Digital stock appears to be undervalued. The current stock price of $29.15 is trading 12.9% below its estimated GF Value™ of $33.47. GuruFocus considers Gen Digital to be Modestly Undervalued.

Key valuation signals for GEN:

  • Debt-to-EBITDA:
  • GF Value™: $33.47 vs. price of $29.15 (12.9% below fair value)
  • GF Score™: 86/100 with 8 warning signs

No single metric tells the full story. See the GEN stock analysis page for a complete view including 30-year financials, guru trades, and insider activity.

Gen Digital Business Description

Address 60 E. Rio Salado Parkway, Suite 1000, Tempe, AZ, USA, 85281
Gen is a cybersecurity pure-play that offers security, identity protection, and privacy solutions to individual consumers. The firm's cyber safety offerings, via brands such as Norton, Avast, and LifeLock, have long maintained their positions as some of the most recognizable consumer-focused security and identity-protection products.
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