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Gen Digital (Gen Digital) Debt-to-EBITDA

: 4.95 (As of Dec. 2023)
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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 Dec. 2023 was $191 Mil. Gen Digital's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $9,109 Mil. Gen Digital's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,880 Mil. Gen Digital's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 4.95.

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: 2.88   Med: 3.84   Max: 18.69
Current: 5.87

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Gen Digital was 18.69. The lowest was 2.88. And the median was 3.84.

GEN's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
86.68% of 1592 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.04 vs GEN: 5.87

Gen Digital Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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.

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Gen Digital Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.22 3.14 3.17 2.93 6.40

Gen Digital Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.12 5.36 4.82 15.22 4.95

Competitive 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 Distribution

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.



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. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(259 + 9560) / 1534
=6.40

Gen Digital's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(191 + 9109) / 1880
=4.95

* 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 (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


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.


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Gen Digital (Gen Digital) Business Description

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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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Samir Kapuria officer: EVP, Cyber Security Services 350 ELLIS STREET, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043
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