GEN 10-K
Gen Digital Inc. (GEN)
10-K
2026-05-21
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 10-K
(Mark One)
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 | |||||
For the Fiscal Year Ended April 3 , 2026
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Aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant, based upon the closing sale price of Gen Digital common stock on October 3, 2025 as reported on the Nasdaq Global Select Market: $15,555,822,937 , based on a per share stock price of $27.82. Solely for purposes of this disclosure, shares of common stock held by each executive officer, director, and holder of 5% or more of the outstanding common stock have been excluded as of such date because such persons may be deemed to be affiliates. This determination of possible affiliate status is not a conclusive determination for any other purposes.
The number of shares of Gen Digital common stock, $0.01 par value per share, outstanding as of May 18, 2026 was 602,433,854 shares.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
GEN DIGITAL INC.
FORM 10-K
For the Fiscal Year Ended April 3, 2026
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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“Gen,” “we,” “us,” “our,” and “the Company” refer to Gen Digital Inc. and all of its subsidiaries. Gen, Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, CCleaner and all related trademarks, service marks and trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gen or other respective owners that have granted Gen the right to use such marks. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND FACTORS THAT MAY AFFECT FUTURE RESULTS
The discussion below contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to safe harbors under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act) and the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act). Forward-looking statements include statements that represent our expectations or beliefs concerning future events, including, without limitation, references to our ability to utilize our deferred tax assets, as well as statements including words such as “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “goal,” “intent,” “momentum,” “projects,” “forecast,” “outlook,” “strategy,” “future,” “opportunity,” “plan,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “will be,” and similar expressions. In addition, projections of our future financial performance; beliefs regarding our business and strategies; anticipated growth and trends in our businesses and in our industries; the consummation of or anticipated impacts of acquisitions (including our ability to achieve synergies from acquisitions, including, but not limited to, our acquisition of MoneyLion), expectations about certain markets, divestitures, restructurings, stock repurchases, financings, debt repayments, investment activities and our liquidity; the outcome or impact of pending litigation, claims or disputes; risks associated with third party providers; evolving regulations and increased scrutiny from regulators; our intent to pay quarterly cash dividends in the future; plans for and anticipated benefits of our products and solutions; anticipated tax rates, benefits and expenses; the global macroeconomic outlook, including but not limited to, the impact of inflation, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, changes in interest rates, and the impact of new trade policy, including the implementation of global tariffs; retaliatory trade regulations and policies; economic disruptions caused by the potential impact of volatility and conflict in the geopolitical and economic environment; general uncertainty in the financial and capital markets; and other global macroeconomic factors on our operations and financial performance; and other characterizations of future events or circumstances are forward-looking statements. These statements are only predictions, based on our current expectations about future events and may not prove to be accurate. We do not undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events occurring or circumstances arising after the date of this report. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, and our actual results, performance, or achievements could differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements on the basis of several factors, including economic recessions, inflationary pressures and those other factors that we discuss in Item 1A. Risk Factors, of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We encourage you to read those sections carefully. There may also be other factors that have not been anticipated or that are not described in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), generally because we did not believe them to be significant at the time, which could cause actual results to differ materially from our projections and expectations. All forward-looking statements should be evaluated with the understanding of their inherent uncertainty.
SUMMARY RISK FACTORS
We are subject to a number of risks that, if realized, could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows and our ability to make distributions to our stockholders. Some of our more significant challenges and risks include, but are not limited to, the following, which are described in greater detail below:
•If we are unable to develop new and enhanced solutions and products, or continually improve the performance, features, and reliability of our existing solutions and products, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.
•We operate in a highly competitive and dynamic environment, and if we are unable to compete effectively, we could experience a loss in market share and a reduction in revenue.
•Issues in the development and deployment of AI, including generative AI and emerging AI-enabled cyber threats, could expose us to regulatory, privacy, IP, cybersecurity, operational and reputational risks.
•Our acquisitions and divestitures create special risks and challenges that could adversely affect our financial results.
•Our revenue and operating results depend significantly on our ability to retain our existing customers and increase their adoption of our offerings, convert existing non-paying customers to paying customers, and add new customers.
•If we fail to manage our sales and distribution channels effectively, if our partners choose not to market and sell our solutions to their customers, or if we have an adverse change in our relationships with key third-party partners, service providers or vendors, our operating results could be materially and adversely affected.
•Changes in industry structure and market conditions have and may continue to lead to charges related to discontinuance of certain products or businesses and asset impairments.
•Our international operations involve risks that could increase our expenses, adversely affect our operating results and require increased time and attention from management.
•Our future success depends on our ability to attract and retain personnel in a competitive marketplace.
•If we fail to offer high-quality customer support, our customer satisfaction may suffer and have a negative impact on our business and reputation.
•If the information provided to us by customers or other third parties is incorrect or fraudulent, we may misjudge a customer’s qualifications to receive our products and services and our results of operations may be harmed and could subject us to regulatory scrutiny or penalties.
•Our solutions, systems, websites and the data on these sources have been and may continue to be subject to cybersecurity events that could materially harm our reputation and future sales.
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•We collect, use, disclose, store or otherwise process personal information and other sensitive data, which is subject to stringent and changing state and federal laws and regulations.
•Our inability to successfully recover from a disaster or other business continuity event could impair our ability to deliver our products and services, which could harm our business.
•We are dependent upon Broadcom for certain engineering and threat response services, which are critical to many of our products and business.
•Our solutions are complex and operate in a wide variety of environments, systems and configurations, which could result in failures of our solutions to function as designed.
•Negative publicity regarding our brand, solutions and business could harm our competitive position.
•Our reputation and/or business could be negatively impacted by sustainability and governance matters and/or our reporting of such matters.
•We are affected by seasonality, which has in the past and may in the future impact our revenue and results of operations.
•The legal and regulatory regimes governing certain of our products and services are uncertain and evolving.
•If we do not protect our proprietary information and prevent third parties from making unauthorized use of our products and technology, our financial results could be harmed.
•From time to time, we are party to lawsuits and investigations, which have previously and could in the future require significant management time and attention, cause us to incur significant legal expenses and prevent us from selling our products.
•Third parties have claimed and additional third parties in the future may claim that we infringe their proprietary rights.
•Some of our products contain “open source” software, and any failure to comply with the terms of one or more of these open source licenses could negatively affect our business.
•Our substantial indebtedness and related debt obligations could limit our financial and operating flexibility and increase our vulnerability to adverse business and economic conditions.
•Our Amended Credit Agreement imposes operating and financial restrictions on us.
•The failure of financial institutions or transactional counterparties could adversely affect our current and projected business operations and our financial condition and results of operations.
•We rely on a variety of funding sources to support our business model. If our existing funding arrangements are not renewed or replaced or our existing funding sources are unwilling or unable to provide funding to us on terms acceptable to us, or at all, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
•Adverse macroeconomic conditions have adversely affected and may continue to adversely affect the consumer finance industry and our MoneyLion business.
•Fluctuations in our quarterly financial results have affected the trading price of our stock in the past and could affect the trading price of our stock in the future.
•We may be required to issue shares under our contingent value rights agreement.
•Changes to our effective tax rate could increase our income tax expense and reduce (increase) our net income (loss), cash flows and working capital, and audits by tax authorities could result in additional tax payments for prior periods.
•Our corporate and legal entity structure, as well as our intercompany arrangements, are subject to the tax laws of multiple jurisdictions. These laws are complex and may be subject to differing interpretations by tax authorities. As a result, we may be required to pay additional taxes, interest, or penalties in various jurisdictions, which could adversely affect our results of operations.
•Our ability to use our deferred tax assets to offset future taxable income may be limited.
The above list is not exhaustive, and we face additional challenges and risks. Please carefully consider all of the information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the matters set forth below in this Part I, Item 1A.
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PART I
Item 1. Business
Purpose and Mission
Purpose: Powering Digital Freedom.
Mission: We create innovative and easy-to-use technology solutions that help people grow, manage and secure their digital and financial lives.
Our Values
Protecting people is what inspires us, and our people are at the core of what we do. We seek to attract talent that embraces the following values:
•Customer Driven. Community Minded. We are customer obsessed and drive positive impact.
•Think Big. Be Bold. We embrace change and innovate fearlessly.
•Be Scrappy. Make it Happen. Big or small, we get things done irrespective of title or role.
•Play to Win. Together. We win for our customers, with passion and integrity.
Company Overview
Gen Digital Inc. is a global leader in consumer Cyber Safety and Trust-Based Solutions, empowering people around the world to live safer digital lives while building confidence and control over their financial futures. Through its trusted brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, and MoneyLion, Gen helps people protect what matters most — their data, identity, privacy, reputation and financials — through award-winning cyber-security, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions used by nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries. Today, digital life and financial life are increasingly intertwined, reshaping how people work, bank, shop, learn, connect and manage their households every day. Advances in cloud computing, mobile platforms, and artificial intelligence (AI) have expanded how consumers interact and transact online, and we expect technological advancements to continue to unlock new possibilities. At the same time, the expansion of consumers’ digital footprint is increasing exposure to cyber risks. Cybercriminals are combining long-standing techniques such as phishing, vishing and smishing with data-driven social engineering, deepfakes, account-takeover attacks and abuse of generative-AI systems and AI agents to execute increasingly sophisticated scams, fraud and other attacks that target people’s identities, privacy and finances. In this environment, we provide solutions designed to help consumers secure, control and manage their digital and financial lives.
We are well-positioned to drive awareness and adoption of Cyber Safety and Trust-Based Solutions for individuals, families, and small businesses, fueled by an increasingly connected world. We help prevent, detect and restore potential damages caused by cybercriminals. We also offer personal finance products, tools and content that deliver actionable insights and guidance to users. Our global, omni-channel sales approach includes direct, indirect and freemium channels and a family of brands, enabling us to grow our customer base and maximize the global reach of our products and services. To this end, we offer both free and paid subscription-based solutions, which are sold direct-to-consumer and through partner relationships. Most of our subscriptions are offered on annual terms, but we also provide monthly subscriptions. We also distribute both first-party and third-party product offerings through integrated marketplaces and other partner platforms.
As of April 3, 2026, we have approximately 500 million total users, which come from direct, partner and freemium channels. Of these total users, we have approximately 79 million paid customers which reflects all customers with at least one paid subscription as of the end of the period, and / or individuals with a unique account and at least one paid transaction in the trailing twelve months.
•Direct-to-consumer channel: We use advertising to elevate our family of brands, attract new customers and generate significant demand for our services. Our direct subscriptions are primarily sold through our e-commerce platform and mobile apps, and we have a direct billing relationship with the majority of these customers. We also offer our integrated core suite of financial products and services through our mobile applications and marketplace services.
•Indirect partner distribution channels: We use strategic and affiliate partner distribution channels to refer prospective customers to us and expand our reach to our partners’ and affiliates’ customer bases. We developed and implemented a global partner sales organization that targets new, as well as existing, partners to enhance our partner distribution channels. These channels include retailers, telecom service providers, employee benefit providers, strategic partners, small offices, home offices, and very small businesses. Physical retail represent a small portion of our distribution, which minimizes the impact of supply chain disruptions.
•Freemium channels: Our go-to-market is diversified with multiple freemium channels through brands like Avast. We use free versions of our products to reach the broadest set of consumers globally and bring cyber safety to a larger audience, especially in international markets. The free solution offers a baseline level of protection and presents premium functionalities based on the risk profile and specific needs of the user. The user can choose to add specific premium solutions or upgrade to suites that provide security, identity, and privacy across multiple platforms and devices, thereby becoming a paid customer.
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•Consumer and Enterprise marketplace: The acquisition of MoneyLion further expanded our go-to-market reach through a consumer and enterprise marketplace, which is branded Engine by Gen. Consumers can access a broad range of personalized and actionable offers for both financial and non-financial products and services.
Our Strategy
Our strategy is focused on delivering long-term sustainable and disciplined growth. For more than a decade, we have protected people’s digital lives. That is our foundation. Today, we are building something larger: a platform that moves beyond protection into full empowerment — giving people the confidence, tools, and insights to control, manage and grow their digital and financial lives.
We are positioned for long-term growth and expansion. Our three primary growth drivers are:
1.Securing Digital Lives: Extending and deepening our leadership in cyber safety by leveraging technology innovation to protect consumers, families, and small businesses against an evolving and increasingly sophisticated threat landscape, including emerging risks from AI-generated scams, deepfakes, and agentic threats, while delivering proactive, personalized safety companion across devices, browsers, and AI agents.
2.Empowering Financial Wellness: Expanding our trusted solutions platform to empower consumers to protect, manage and grow their financial lives — through identity protection, financial fraud protection, credit monitoring, earned wage access, personalized financial product insights, and a recommended platform of trusted third-party financial solutions — deepening the customer relationship from protection into empowerment and financial decision-making and compounding lifetime value across the platform.
3.Scaling Gen’s AI-Powered Platform Delivering a Trust Layer: Connecting our ecosystem of brands, products, and partners through a unified data and AI infrastructure to deliver personalized, proactive, and increasingly automated experiences — closing the gap between what AI can do and what consumers trust it to do. Our platform turns user-permissioned data into trusted recommendations and actionable intelligence, positioning Gen as the trust layer for the AI economy.
The key elements of our strategy include the following:
•Extend our leadership in Cyber Safety through AI-driven innovation: Cyber Safety is a large market with an ever-evolving threat landscape. AI is simultaneously enabling more sophisticated attacks and more powerful defenses. Our strategy is to lead in both defense and empowerment, deploying AI-native capabilities such as our advanced scam detection engine, agentic security, and privacy protection solutions that anticipate threats before they materialize. Our telemetry across devices, identities, and financial signals powers a flywheel: more data improves detection, better detection builds trust, and trust drives growth. We continue to expand our portfolio into adjacent areas including family safety, small business protection, and AI-safe browsing to reach new customer cohorts and geographies.
•Grow our customer base through multiple channels: We maintain multiple go-to-market channels to reach new customers globally, including direct, app stores, and partnerships across various business models, such as premium, freemium, and embedded marketplaces. We leverage our expertise in digital marketing, our family of trusted brands, and our expanding network of telecom, financial institution, and employer benefit partners to grow our customer base. We have access to numerous first party financial products through MoneyLion as well as our Engine marketplace that extends distribution through partners, increasing the number of consumers that see our value proposition. We believe continued investment in these distribution channels, combined with the breadth of our first-party and third-party product portfolio, will allow us to efficiently acquire new customers across cyber safety and financial wellness.
•Deepen customer value through cross-sell of all of our services: security, privacy, identity, reputation, and financial protection and empowerment: We believe our approximately 500 million users — including 79 million paid customers — represent a significant and underleveraged opportunity to deliver trusted financial solutions. Our Engine marketplace connects consumers with over 600 third-party financial product providers across lending, insurance, credit, and banking, represents a hosted decisioning engine. We leverage our identity and behavioral data advantages to deliver personalized financial product recommendations to existing customers, increasing average revenue per user and strengthening the overall value of the Gen relationship. Customers with connected financial accounts demonstrate higher engagement, stronger ARPU, and better retention, which further deepens loyalty over time.
•Continue our focus on customer retention and loyalty: We continue to optimize and expand the value we provide to customers, which we believe positively impacts retention and lifetime value. We aim to increase customer engagement through actionable identity and financial alerts, AI-powered insights, and the introduction of new product capabilities and financial wellness community content. Comprehensive cyber safety membership adoption — integrating security, identity, privacy, and financial wellness into a single trusted relationship — reinforces our view that the future of cyber safety lies in all-in-one solutions and ultimately a seamless secure trust layer.
•Leverage our global brands and partner network to drive reach and innovation: We will continue building our family of trusted brands globally — Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more — as we expand protection and empowerment to consumers across more than 150 countries. We will also continue to invest in our partner network, which includes over 650 channel partners and over 600 third-party product providers in Engine by Gen, to enrich the choices available to our customers and accelerate our reach into new markets and customer segments.
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•Scale our AI-powered platform to drive compounding growth: We are investing in a unified data and AI platform that gives consumers structured, secure access to their most important information and puts the power of distribution in their hands, while connecting our brands, products, and third-party partners into a single intelligent ecosystem. This platform enables hyper-personalized recommendations, faster AI innovation across our portfolio, and new revenue streams through trust, data, and decisioning services. Over time, we expect it to shift our growth model from linear subscription economics toward compounding network effects, as each customer and partner interaction enriches the ecosystem.
•Build the trust layer for the AI economy: As AI agents move onto consumer devices, browsing the web and executing code on the user’s behalf, the security stakes have fundamentally changed. We are building the trust layer for consumer AI: an AI-native browser, agentic protection integrated into our core memberships including an agentic VPN, and an agentic skill scanner establishing our platform as the security foundation for AI adoption. The assets required to win in this category — trusted brands, rich behavioral and financial data, broad global distribution — are difficult to replicate, creating a durable and compounding advantage as the market scales.
•Pursue strategic transactions to enhance our competitive advantage: To complement our organic growth strategy, we selectively pursue acquisitions, investments, and other strategic transactions that we believe can enhance our platform capabilities, expand our current lines of business, accelerate growth in existing or adjacent markets, strengthen our ecosystem, broaden our distribution reach, deepen our proprietary data and technology assets, or otherwise enhance our competitive position. We evaluate potential opportunities based on a variety of factors, including their strategic fit, ability to drive long-term value creation, operational and technological synergies, customer and user expansion opportunities, and financial returns. Our approach to acquisitions and other strategic transactions is guided by our financial discipline and balanced with our broader capital allocation priorities, which may include investments in innovation and growth initiatives, debt repayment, dividends, and share repurchases.
Operating Segment Information
We present financial information for our Cyber Safety Platform and Trust-Based Solutions operating segments to provide investors with greater transparency into the performance and drivers of our business. These segments reflect how our Chief Operating Decision Maker (our Chief Executive Officer) evaluates results, allocates resources, and assesses growth opportunities. By distinguishing between our core cybersecurity offerings and our Trust-Based Solutions, we enable investors to better understand the distinct market dynamics, revenue growth, and profitability profiles of each segment, as well as how they collectively support our long-term strategy and value creation.
Our Cyber Safety Platform Segment
Cyber Safety Platform includes our security, comprehensive suites, and privacy products, which deliver technology solutions and superior threat protection to help people navigate the digital world, securely, privately and with confidence. We develop our broad portfolio of Cyber Safety products and services based on consumer insights and continuously enhance our offerings through product innovation and technology integration, including acquired capabilities, to outpace evolving threats.
Our Cyber Safety portfolio provides protection across two primary categories, security and performance, and online privacy, and is delivered across multiple channels and geographies. Leveraging our technology platforms, we integrate software and service capabilities within these two categories into comprehensive and easy-to-use products and solutions across our brands.
We protect and empower consumers by providing solutions and services in two main ways:
•Comprehensive membership plans: Providing a comprehensive and all-in-one Cyber Safety portfolio of solutions for a membership fee. Plans are offered through Norton 360 and Avast One subscriptions, with both brands providing multiple levels of membership tiers that range from basic, mid-level, or premium tiers where online privacy features and identity and restoration services are included.
•Point solutions: Providing stand-alone products and services in security, device performance, and privacy, offering flexibility for consumers to choose between free or paid solutions. These products solve for a specific need, when you need it, and can add on to the value you already have. Please see below for our full set of products by category.
We are well-positioned across two key Cyber Safety categories:
•Security and Performance: Our offerings provide real-time threat protection for PCs, Macs and mobile devices against malware, ransomware, phishing, and other emerging cyber threats. These offerings monitor and block unauthorized access to the device to help protect and secure private and sensitive information. Scams have also continued to become more prevalent and sophisticated and we offer a range of AI-powered features integrated into Norton Cyber Safety products to provide always-on protection from today’s most sophisticated scams across phone calls, texts, emails, deepfakes and websites. Norton Scam Protection and Scam Protection Pro utilize Norton Genie AI engine to analyze the meaning of words, not just links, helping to stop hidden scam patterns that even the most careful person can miss. We also offer solutions designed to help small businesses safeguard devices, online activities, and customer data. We also provide performance and optimization software solutions that improve device functionality by freeing up space, clearing online tracking, and managing system resources.
•Online Privacy: Our privacy solutions include virtual private network (VPN) offerings through the Norton, Avast and freemium brands. These solutions provide encrypted data tunnels and connections that allows customers to securely transmit and access private information, such as passwords, bank details, and credit card numbers, when accessing the
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internet through their devices, including on public Wi-Fi networks. Our VPN solutions also incorporate advanced privacy, malware protection, and AI-powered protection against sophisticated cyber threats, including scams and phishing attacks. We also offer a variety of solutions under the Norton and Avast brands to enhance online privacy, including solutions that limit tracking while browsing online, through our AntiTrack and Secure Browser products, or services that help customers identify and remove personal information from public data broker sites, through our Privacy Monitor Assistant and BreachGuard products.
Our Trust-Based Solutions Segment
We have also evolved beyond Cyber Safety to offer Trust-Based solutions, including identity protection, restoration support services, digital reputation, and secure financial wellness, including our first-party MoneyLion products and our Engine marketplace offerings. These innovative solutions and insights empower consumers to manage their identity, reputation and finances confidently.
•Identity Protection and Reputation: In the United States, we offer Identity Theft protection as a premium membership service primarily through LifeLock, which includes monitoring of credit reports, the dark web, social media, and financial accounts to help detect potential misuse of and safeguard our customers’ personal information. In the event of identity theft, we assign an Identity Restoration Specialist to work directly with customers to help restore their identities, and assist in the recovery process. All plans include reimbursements for certain losses and expenses incurred, with coverage limits of up to $3 million depending on the plan. Outside the United States, we offer identity solutions under the Norton, Avast, and other brands, which include dark web monitoring in over 50 countries, monitoring of credit, social media and financial accounts, restoration support, and identity theft insurance in select countries. We also provide digital reputation management services, which helps customers manage their personal branding online, including on search results, social media sites, and overall web presence.
•Secure Financial Wellness: In the United States, we offer modern personal finance products, tools, and financial-related content that delivers actionable insights and guidance to our users. Through our MoneyLion brand, we provide a broad suite of financial products and services to make premium banking, borrowing and investing accessible to everyone, enhanced with identity features so users can protect the wealth they build. We also operate and distribute embedded finance marketplace solutions that match consumers with personalized third-party offers from our partners, providing convenient access to an expansive breadth of financial solutions that enable customers to borrow, spend, save and achieve better financial outcomes. Our leading marketplace solutions provide valuable distribution, acquisition, growth, and monetization channels for our partners. This purpose-built platform helps consumers navigate all of their financial inflection points, combining our deep first-party product expertise, engaging content, marketplaces, innovative technology, data and AI capabilities to create the ultimate marketplace solution, Engine by Gen.
Innovation, Research and Development
Gen has a long history of innovation, and we plan to continue to invest in research and development to drive our long-term success.
As cyber threats evolve, and an increasing amount of our financial lives happen online, we are focused on delivering a portfolio that protects each element of our customers’ digital and financial lives. To do this, we engage and listen to our customers, and we embrace innovation by deploying a global research and development strategy across our platform. Our engineering and product teams are focused on delivering new and enhanced versions of existing offerings, as well as developing entirely new offerings to drive the company’s global leadership in cyber safety and secure financial wellness.
We are committed to our innovation and research and development efforts. The Technology team at Gen is driving the company’s future technologies, new product development, innovation and helping guide the consumer cybersecurity and personal financial services industries. Our global technology research organization is focused on applied research projects, with the goal of rapidly creating new products to address consumer trends and grow the business, including defending consumer digital safety, privacy, identity and secure financial wellness. We also have a global threat response and security technology organization that is comprised of our dedicated team of threat and security researchers, supported by advanced systems to innovate security technology and threat intelligence.
We have one of the world’s largest consumer cyber safety networks. Leveraging our capabilities, our global threat response team handles a wide variety of attacks, including social engineering attacks, file-based attacks, web and network-based attacks, privacy and data exfiltration attacks, identity theft attacks, algorithmic manipulation attacks, and more.
Our differentiated approach is powered by our global scale and visibility, geographically distributed cloud data platform, and advanced AI-based automation. Through our AI Foundry, we build advanced AI models to improve our user’s experiences, by providing recommendations, insights, and personalized messaging tailored to their customer journey. We are also building AI-native products, AI agentic solutions, and the trust layer that makes powerful AI, safe and simple for everyday life.
Industry Overview
Cyber safety is a large market, fueled by the increase in activities online and the expanding digital lives of consumers globally. The core markets we participate in include security, identity, privacy, and increasingly, financial wellness. We believe the cyber safety market will continue to expand significantly, driven by the growing number of people connected to the internet and the accelerating convergence of their digital and financial lives.
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The cyber threat landscape is larger and more complicated than ever before. Attack cycles have compressed, threats are more personalized and convincing, and they are almost always aimed at a financial outcome — drained accounts, stolen credentials, and fraudulent transactions. New technologies, smart devices, digital identities and an increasingly more connected world mean consumers will encounter a range of new cyber safety challenges. Consumer demands and behaviors are rapidly changing and driving more activities online, from shopping, socializing, working, banking, to other activities in healthcare, entertainment and so much more. Almost every aspect of a person’s life has a digital component. Unfortunately, many of those activities are left unprotected, and attackers are exploiting this larger opportunity and the inherent security and privacy vulnerabilities. Cybercriminals have not only expanded their reach, but the sophistication of digital threats and attacks are becoming increasingly more realistic and believable. The rise of AI-generated deepfakes, synthetic identities, and autonomous AI agents — software that can browse, transact, and act on a consumer's behalf — introduces an entirely new attack surface and makes trust infrastructure more critical than ever.
At the same time, consumer demand for financial guidance and access is growing with equal urgency. Despite advances in financial technology, significant gaps remain: many consumers lack access to personalized, data-driven tools to help them manage, protect, and grow their financial lives. The embedded finance marketplace model — connecting consumers with personalized third-party offers across lending, insurance, credit, and banking — has emerged as a scalable and high-intent channel for closing this gap, meeting consumers at the moment they are most ready to act.
What is emerging is the convergence of cyber safety and financial wellness into a single consumer need. Almost every cyber threat ultimately targets a financial outcome, and almost every financial decision increasingly carries a digital risk. Consumers are no longer looking for a security product and a financial app — they are looking for a trusted platform that protects and empowers their entire digital and financial life, simultaneously and proactively.
We believe these dynamics — the expanding digital threat landscape, the growing demand for accessible financial wellness solutions, and the convergence of cyber safety and financial protection — will continue to drive demand for integrated platforms that address consumers' digital and financial needs together. Gen operates across both markets, connecting its family of Cyber Safety brands with financial wellness and marketplace capabilities to serve consumers across all aspects of their digital and financial lives.
Competitive Landscape
We operate in a highly competitive and dynamic environment. We face global competition from a broad range of companies, including software providers focusing on cyber safety solutions, platform and ecosystem providers such as Apple, Google and Microsoft, and ‘pure play’ companies that currently specialize in one or a few market segments, many of which are expanding their product portfolios into additional segments. We believe the competitive factors in our market include innovation, access to a breadth of consumer identity and financial data, broad and effective service offerings, brand recognition, effective technology, cost-efficient customer acquisition, strong retention rate, customer satisfaction, competitive price, convenience of purchase, ease of use, frequency of upgrades and reliable customer service. Our competitors may vary by offering, geography, business model and channel.
Our principal competitors are set forth below:
•Security: Our principal competitors in this segment include Apple, Bitdefender, ESET, F-Secure, Google, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, McAfee, Microsoft, Trend Micro and Webroot.
•Online Privacy: Our principal competitors in this segment include Apple, Aura, Brave, DuckDuckGo, IPVanish, Kape, Mozilla, Nord Security and Proton.
•Identity and Reputation: Our principal competitors in this segment include credit bureaus such as Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, as well as certain credit monitoring and identity theft protection solutions from others such as Allstate, Aura, Generali (Iris), Intuit (Credit Karma) and Microsoft.
•Secure Financial Wellness: Our principal competitors in this segment include Bankrate, Chime, Dave, Intuit (Credit Karma), LendingTree, NerdWallet, Robinhood and SoFi.
•Other Competitors: In addition to competitors listed above, we also face competition from companies focused on one or a few of the above or adjacent categories. Many of these players are expanding into new segments and developing competing products. These include ‘pure play’ providers such as 1Password, Bark, Dashlane, LastPass, Life360, and Truecaller, as well as internet service providers, big tech platform providers, insurance companies and financial services organizations.
We believe we compete effectively based on the strength of our technology, people, product offerings, and presence across the key Cyber Safety and Trust-Based Solutions categories. However, some competitors have greater financial, technical, marketing, distribution or other resources than we do, including in new Cyber Safety and Trust-Based Solutions segments we may enter, giving them competitive advantages. As a result, they may be better positioned to invest in the development, marketing, and distribution of their offerings; provide competitive solutions at lower prices or for free; and introduce new solutions or respond to market developments and customer needs more quickly or cost-effectively than we can. In addition, for certain solutions or features, smaller, well-funded competitors may be able to innovate and adapt more quickly to evolving market dynamics and changing consumer needs.
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For more information on the risks associated with our competitors, please see “Risk Factors” – Risks Related to Our Business Strategy and Industry – “We operate in a highly competitive and dynamic environment, and if we are unable to compete effectively, we could experience a loss in market share and a reduction in revenue” and “We may need to change our pricing models to compete successfully,” in Item 1A included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Seasonality
As is typical for many consumer technology companies, portions of our business are impacted by seasonality. However, we believe the net impact on our business is limited. Seasonal behavior in orders primarily reflects consumer spending patterns during our fiscal third and fourth quarters, as order volume is generally higher due to the holidays in our third quarter, as well as due to follow-on holiday purchases and the U.S. tax filing season which is in our fourth quarter. Revenue generally reflects similar seasonal patterns but to a lesser extent than orders because of our subscription business model, as the majority of our in-period revenues are recognized ratably from our deferred revenue balance.
Human Capital Management
At Gen, our mission is to build a comprehensive and easy-to-use integrated portfolio that prevents, detects and responds to cyber threats and cybercrimes in today’s digital world. Our ability to execute on this mission depends on attracting, developing, and retaining a highly skilled and engaged workforce.
•General Employee Demographics: As of April 3, 2026, we employed approximately 3,900 team members across more than 20 countries. With dual headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, and in Prague, Czech Republic, we have over 1,400 active employees located in the United States and nearly 800 active employees in the Czech Republic. None of our U.S. employees are represented by a labor union or covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
•Employee Development and Training: Our people programs are designed to provide our team members with the resources and opportunities needed to grow and succeed. During fiscal 2026, we continued to invest in learning and development through our Learn@Gen platform and program, which provides employees with access to a broad range of digital and in person learning content and development opportunities. These offerings include the LinkedIn Learning catalog, Gen Mentorship programs, Peer Learning Academics, and leadership development initiatives.
•Employee Engagement: We are committed to fostering a positive and productive work environment. Employee feedback is a critical component of this effort. We maintain an ongoing dialogue with our workforce through our Engage pulse surveys, which focus on targeted topics and inform actions and continuous improvements across the organization.
•Benefits, Health and Wellness: At Gen, we value our people and are committed to reinforcing a positive and supportive experience through the programs and benefits we provide which are designed to support physical, mental and financial well-being in an integrated and equitable manner. Our employee value proposition, Life@Gen, is centered on choice, flexibility, and growth, and reflects our holistic approach to the employee experience.
•Human Capital Governance: Our Board of Directors, through its Compensation and Leadership Development Committee, provides oversight of our human capital management strategies. We work closely with the Committee on matters including executive compensation, overall reward strategy, talent management, talent acquisition, leadership development, succession planning, retention, and employee engagement.
Intellectual Property
Our intellectual property (IP) is an important and vital asset that enables us to develop, market, and sell our software products and services and enhance our competitive position. We are a leader among consumer cyber safety and secure financial wellness solutions in pursuing patents and currently have a portfolio of over 1,000 U.S. and international patents issued with many additional patents pending. We protect our intellectual property rights and investments in a variety of ways to safeguard our technologies and our long-term success. Our IP portfolio is spread across different entities and in multiple countries. As we continue to expand our international operations, we have developed a strategy to ensure global distribution of our IP aligns with our long-term strategic objectives, business model, and goals. We work actively in the U.S. and internationally to ensure the enforcement of copyright, trademark, trade secret and other protections that apply to our software products and services. The term of the patents we hold is, on average, in excess of ten years.
From time to time, we enter into cross-license agreements with other technology companies covering broad groups of patents. We also use software from third parties in our business and generally must rely on those third parties to protect the licensed rights. This can include open source software, which is subject to limited proprietary rights. While it may be necessary in the future to seek or renew licenses relating to various aspects of our products, services, and business methods, we believe, based upon past experience and industry practice, such licenses generally can be obtained on commercially reasonable terms. The ability to maintain and protect our intellectual property rights is important to our success, but we believe our business is not materially dependent on any individual patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, license, or other intellectual property right.
However, circumstances outside our control could pose a threat to our intellectual property rights. Effective intellectual property protection may not be available, and the efforts we have taken to protect our proprietary rights may not be sufficient or effective. Any significant impairment of our intellectual property rights could harm our business or our ability to compete. In addition, protecting our intellectual property rights is costly and time consuming. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of our intellectual property could make it more expensive to do business and harm our operating results.
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In addition, a large number of patents, copyrights and trademarks are owned by other companies in the technology industry. Those companies may request license agreements, threaten litigation, or file suit against us based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights.
For more information on the risks associated with our intellectual property, please see “Risk Factors” in Item 1A included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Governmental Regulation
We collect, use, store or disclose an increasingly high volume, and variety of personal information, including from employees and customers, in connection with the operation of our business. The personal information we process is subject to an increasing number of federal, state, local and foreign laws regarding privacy and data security.
Gen is also subject to extensive and evolving federal, state laws and regulations governing consumer financial products and services, including laws relating to consumer protection, fair lending, anti-money laundering, electronic payments, money transmission, credit reporting and licensing. Certain of our products and platform are regulated and supervised by various governmental and regulatory authorities, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission and state banking and financial services regulators. Applicable compliance requirements include, among others, regulations relating to unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices, lending and servicing activities, electronic fund transfers, customer disclosures, sanctions compliance, cybersecurity and the collection, use and protection of consumer data.
For information on the risks associated with complying with privacy and data security laws, please see “Risk Factors” in Item 1A included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Available Information
Our internet homepage is located at GenDigital.com. We make available our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with the SEC on our investor relations website located at Investor.GenDigital.com. We also use our website as a tool to disclose important information about the company and comply with our disclosure obligations under Regulation Fair Disclosure. The information contained, or referred to, on our website, including in any reports that are posted on our website, is not part of this annual report unless expressly noted. The SEC maintains a website that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding our filings at http://www.sec.gov.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
A description of the risk factors associated with our business is set forth below and in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” “Legal Proceedings,” “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” and “Controls and Procedures.” The list is not exhaustive, and you should carefully consider these risks and uncertainties before investing in our common stock.
RISKS RELATED TO OUR BUSINESS STRATEGY AND INDUSTRY
If we are unable to develop new and enhanced solutions and products, or continually improve the performance, features, and reliability of our existing solutions and products, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.
Our future success depends on our ability to effectively respond to evolving consumer threats, technological advancements, competitive developments and industry changes, by developing or introducing new and enhanced solutions and products on a timely basis. We have incurred, and will continue to incur, significant research and development expenses, including investments in AI, to drive organic growth and reduce reliance on third-party technologies. If these investments do not produce the anticipated benefits, or if such benefits are delayed, our operating results could be adversely affected.
We must continually address the challenges of dynamic and accelerating market trends and competitive developments. The development and integration of new technologies — including generative AI (“Gen AI”) and machine learning — is complex, time-consuming, and subject to significant risks. New technologies may contain errors, vulnerabilities, or unintended outputs, including incorrect or biased results, that are not easily detectable, which could lead to customer dissatisfaction, reputational harm, litigation, or increased regulatory scrutiny. Customers may also demand features or capabilities that our current solutions do not offer, and failure to innovate in a timely and cost-effective manner could impair our ability to retain existing customers and attract new customers.
The development and introduction of new solutions involve significant commitments of time and resources and are subject to risks and challenges including but not limited to:
•Lengthy development cycles;
•Evolving industry and regulatory standards and technological developments, including AI and machine learning, by our competitors and customers;
•Rapidly changing customer preferences and accurately anticipating technological trends or needs;
•Evolving platforms, operating systems, and hardware products, such as mobile devices;
•Product and service interoperability challenges with customer’s technology and third-party vendors;
•The integration of products and solutions from acquired companies;
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•Availability of engineering and technical talent;
•Entering new or unproven market segments;
•New and evolving regulation; and
•Executing new product and service strategies.
In addition, third parties, including, but not limited to, operating systems and internet browser companies, have in the past and may in the future limit the interoperability of our solutions with their own products and services, including to promote competing offerings. Such actions could delay the development of, impair the functionality of, or reduce the demand for our solutions and products, which could result in decreased revenue, harm to our reputation, and adverse effects on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
If we fail to manage these risks effectively, or if our new or improved solutions or products are not technologically competitive or do not achieve market acceptance, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.
We operate in a highly competitive and dynamic environment, and if we are unable to compete effectively, we could experience a loss in market share and a reduction in revenue.
We operate in intensely competitive and dynamic markets characterized by rapid technological developments, evolving industry and regulatory standards and market trends, changing customer requirements and preferences, and frequent new product introductions and improvements. We have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, significant competitive pressures. If we are unable to anticipate or respond effectively to these continually evolving conditions, we could lose market share, experience pricing pressure, and incur reduced revenues, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
To compete successfully, we must maintain a robust and innovative research and development effort, enhance our existing solutions and products, introduce new offerings on a timely basis, and effectively adapt to changes in the technology, financial technology, AI, privacy and data protection standards and trends.
Our cyber safety and financial wellness businesses compete with a broad range of companies, including established security software vendors, operating system and platform providers, companies who specialize in a niche segment of the cyber safety market and which are expanding their portfolios into competing cyber safety products, traditional banks and credit unions, licensed and non-bank digital financial service providers, specialty finance companies, digital wealth management and brokerage platforms, embedded finance providers, financial marketplaces, and other technology companies. Many of these competitors have longer operating histories, greater brand recognition, larger customer bases, and significantly greater financial, technical, and marketing resources than we do. They may be able to offer more competitive pricing or terms, bundle products more effectively, introduce new, enhanced, broader or more specialized offerings more quickly (including for free), or respond more rapidly to technological and consumer trends. We expect our competition to continue to increase, as there are generally no substantial barriers to entry into the markets we serve.
In addition, operating system and platform providers increasingly incorporate native security, privacy, and financial features into their products, often at no additional cost, which may reduce demand for our offerings or diminish their differentiation. We also depend on strategic distribution and bundling relationships, and partners have in the past replaced, and may in the future replace, our solutions with competing or internally developed offerings, promote competing products more favorably, or limit interoperability. Industry consolidation, vertical integration, and the introduction of new or alternative technologies may further intensify competition.
We cannot be sure that we will accurately predict how the markets in which we compete or intend to compete will evolve. Failure on our part to anticipate changes in our markets and to develop solutions and enhancements that meet the demands of those markets or to effectively compete against our competitors will significantly impair our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
Issues in the development and deployment of AI, including generative AI and emerging AI-enabled cyber threats, could expose us to regulatory, privacy, IP, cybersecurity, operational and reputational risks.
We have incorporated, and are continuing to develop and deploy, AI, including Gen AI, into many of our products, solutions and services. AI systems, including AI internally developed and AI present in third party solutions, may be flawed, contain errors or vulnerabilities, reflect unintended bias, or produce inaccurate, misleading or “hallucinatory” outputs, and such deficiencies may not be easily detectable. Customers may rely on AI-generated outputs in making financial, security or other significant decisions. If AI-enabled features in our products produce incorrect, incomplete or biased outputs, we could face claims of misrepresentation, negligence, product liability or other legal theories, as well as customer dissatisfaction, reputational harm and loss of business. Furthermore, we may face allegations of misrepresentations or “AI washing” if our disclosures about our AI capabilities or our AI-related governance are deemed to be exaggerated or misleading, which could result in enforcement actions, litigation or reputational harm.
AI can present ethical issues and may subject us to new or heightened legal, regulatory, ethical, or other challenges, including issues relating to discrimination, intellectual property infringement or misappropriation, violation of rights of publicity, inability to assert ownership of inventions and works of authorship, loss of trade secrets, defamation, data privacy, and cybersecurity; and inappropriate or controversial data practices by third-party partners, developers and end-users, or other factors adversely affecting public opinion of AI, could impair the acceptance of AI solutions, including those incorporated in our products and services. If the AI solutions that we create or use are deficient, inaccurate or controversial, we could incur
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operational inefficiencies, competitive harm, legal liability, brand or reputational harm, or other adverse impacts on our business and financial results.
In addition, if we do not have sufficient rights to use the data or other material or content on which our AI tools rely, we also may incur liability through the violation of applicable laws and regulations, third-party intellectual property, privacy or other rights, or contracts to which we are a party. The use or adoption of AI technologies in our products may also result in exposure to claims by third parties of copyright infringement or other intellectual property misappropriation, which may require us to pay compensation or license fees to third parties. For example, the large datasets used to train Gen AI technologies or output generated by Gen AI technologies may contain materials that may subject us to third-party claims of intellectual property infringement or violations of rights of publicity. This risk is exacerbated with respect to our use of third-party Gen AI technologies, as it can be very difficult, if not impossible, to validate the processes used by third-party Gen AI technology providers in their collection and use of training data or the algorithm to produce outputs.
In addition, regulation of Gen AI is rapidly evolving worldwide as legislators and regulators are increasingly focused on these powerful emerging technologies. The technologies underlying Gen AI and its uses are currently subject to a variety of laws and regulations, including intellectual property, privacy, data protection and information security, consumer protection, competition, and equal opportunity laws, and are expected to be subject to increased regulation and new laws or new applications of existing laws and regulations. Gen AI is the subject of ongoing review by various U.S. governmental and regulatory agencies, and various U.S. states and other foreign jurisdictions are applying, or are considering applying, their platform moderation, cybersecurity, and data protection laws and regulations to Gen AI or are considering general legal frameworks for Gen AI. For example, the EU AI Act, which came into force on August 1, 2024, will generally become fully applicable after a two-year transitional period, with certain obligations taking effect at an earlier or later time. The EU AI Act introduces various requirements for AI systems and models placed on the market or put into service in the EU, including specific transparency and other requirements for general purpose AI systems and the models on which they are based. In addition, several U.S. states, such as California and Colorado, have proposed or enacted laws regarding automated decision‑making, deepfakes, algorithmic discrimination and so called “high‑risk” AI technologies (mandating, among other provisions, requirements for risk management, impact assessments, consumer notices and human oversight). At the federal level, a December 2025 executive order endorsed a federal moratorium on enforcement of state AI laws and the White House released in March 2026 a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, outlining nonbinding legislative recommendations to inform congressional consideration of a unified federal approach to AI regulation. Ongoing tension between the states and the federal government over how best to regulate AI may result in increased uncertainty, risk and compliance costs for our business. If we cannot use AI, or if our use of AI is restricted, it could lead to business disruption, inefficiency, or competitive disadvantage. Replacement of these technologies with compliant alternatives could require substantial capital expenditures or lead to a loss of proprietary data.
Furthermore, because AI technology itself is highly complex and rapidly developing, it is not possible to predict all of the legal, operational or technological risks that may arise relating to the use of AI, including the increased use of agentic AI and the heightened risk it poses to data privacy and cybersecurity. The rapid evolution of AI, including potential government regulation of AI, requires us to invest significant resources to develop, test, and maintain AI in our products and services in a manner that meets evolving requirements and expectations and we may need to expend resources to adjust our offerings in certain jurisdictions if the legal frameworks are inconsistent across jurisdictions. Developing, testing, and deploying AI systems may also increase the cost profile of our offerings due to the nature of the computing costs involved in such systems.
Our acquisitions and divestitures create special risks and challenges that could adversely affect our financial results.
As part of our business strategy, we may acquire or divest businesses or assets. For example, we acquired MoneyLion in April 2025. Our acquisition and divestiture activities have and may continue to involve a number of risks and challenges, including:
•Complexity, time and costs associated with managing these transactions, including the integration of acquired and the winding down of divested business operations, workforce, products, services, IT systems and technologies;
•Challenges in maintaining uniform standards, controls, procedures and policies within the combined organization;
•Challenges in retaining the customers of acquired businesses, providing the same level of service to existing customers with reduced resources, or retaining the third-party relationships, including with suppliers, service providers, and vendors, among others;
•Diversion of management time and attention;
•Loss or termination of employees, including costs and potential institutional knowledge loss associated with the termination or replacement of those employees;
•Assumption of liabilities of the acquired and divested business or assets, including pending or future litigation, investigations or claims related to the acquired business or assets;
•Addition of acquisition-related debt;
•Difficulty entering into or expanding into new markets or geographies;
•Increased or unexpected costs and working capital requirements;
•Dilution of stock ownership of existing stockholders;
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•Ongoing contractual obligations and unanticipated delays or failure to meet contractual obligations;
•Regulatory risks, including remaining in good standing with existing regulatory bodies or receiving any necessary approvals, as well as being subject to new regulators with oversight over an acquired business;
•Substantial accounting charges for acquisition-related costs, asset impairments, amortization of intangible assets and higher levels of stock-based compensation expense; and
•Difficulty in realizing potential benefits, including cost savings and operational efficiencies, synergies and growth prospects from integrating acquired businesses.
We may not be able to identify appropriate business opportunities that benefit our business strategy or otherwise satisfy our criteria to undertake such opportunities. Even if we do identify potential strategic transactions, we may not be successful in negotiating favorable terms in a timely manner or at all or in consummating the transaction, and even if we do consummate such a transaction, it may not generate sufficient revenue to offset the associated costs, may not otherwise result in the intended benefits or may result in unexpected difficulties and risks. Macroeconomic factors, such as fluctuating tariffs, trade wars, high inflation, high interest rates, and volatility in foreign currency exchange rates and capital markets could negatively influence our future acquisition opportunities. Moreover, to be successful, large complex acquisitions depend on large-scale product, technology, and sales force integrations that are difficult to complete on a timely basis or at all and may be more susceptible to the special risks and challenges described above. Any of the foregoing, and other factors, could harm our ability to achieve anticipated levels of profitability or other financial benefits from our acquired or divested businesses, product lines or assets or to realize other anticipated benefits of divestitures or acquisitions.
Our revenue and operating results depend significantly on our ability to retain our existing customers and increase their adoption of our offerings, convert existing non-paying customers to paying customers, and add new customers.
It is important to our cyber and financial technology businesses that we retain existing customers and that our customers expand their use of our solutions and products over time. If our efforts to sell additional functionality, products and services to our customers and clients are not successful, our business and growth prospects would suffer. Customers may choose not to renew their membership with us at any time and may stop utilizing our revenue-generating products. For our solutions sold to customers on a monthly or annual subscription basis, renewing customers may require additional incentives to renew, may not renew for the same contract period, or may change their subscriptions. We therefore may be unable to retain our existing customers on the same or more profitable terms, if at all. In addition, we may not be able to accurately predict or anticipate future trends in customer retention or effectively respond to such trends.
Our customer retention rates may decline or fluctuate due to a variety of factors, including the following:
•Our customers’ levels of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our solutions, the value they place on our solutions and availability of our solutions;
•The quality, breadth, and prices of our solutions, including solutions offered in emerging markets;
•Our general reputation and events impacting that reputation;
•The services and related pricing offered by our competitors; including increasing the availability and efficacy of free solutions;
•Increases in costs we incur and may pass on to our customers in order to offer our products or services;
•Disruption by new services or changes in law or regulations that impact the need for or efficacy of our products and services;
•Changes in auto-renewal and other consumer protection regulations;
•Our customers’ dissatisfaction with our efforts to market additional products and services;
•Our customer service and responsiveness to the needs of our customers;
•Changes in our target customers’ spending levels as a result of general economic conditions, inflationary pressures or other factors; and
•The quality and efficacy of our third-party partners who assist us in renewing customers’ subscriptions.
Declining customer retention rates could cause our revenue to grow more slowly than expected or decline, and our operating results, gross margins and business will be harmed. In addition, our ability to generate revenue and maintain or improve our results of operations partly depends on our ability to cross-sell our solutions to our existing customers and to convert existing non-paying customers to paying customers and add new customers. We may not be successful in cross selling our solutions because our customers may find our additional solutions unnecessary or unattractive. Our failure to sell additional solutions to our existing customers, failure to convert existing non-paying customers to paying customers or add new customers could adversely affect our ability to grow our business.
An important part of our growth strategy involves continued investment in direct marketing efforts, indirect partner distribution channels, expanding partner relationships, freemium channels, our sales force, and infrastructure to add new customers. The number and rate at which new customers purchase our products and services depends on a number of factors, including those outside of our control, such as customers’ perceived need for our solutions and products, competition, general economic conditions, market transitions, product obsolescence, technological change, public awareness of security threats to IT systems,
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macroeconomic conditions, and other factors. New customers, if any, may subscribe or renew their subscriptions, or utilize our products and solutions, at lower rates than we have experienced in the past, introducing uncertainty about their economic attractiveness and potentially impacting our financial results.
Additionally, there are inherent challenges in measuring the usage of our products and solutions across our brands, platforms, regions, and internal systems, and therefore, calculation methodologies for direct customer counts may differ, which may impact our ability to measure the addition of new customers and our understanding of certain details of our business. The methodologies used to measure these metrics require judgment and are also susceptible to algorithms or other technical errors. From time to time, we review our metrics and may discover inaccuracies or make adjustments to improve their accuracy, which can result in adjustments to our historical metrics. Our ability to recalculate our historical metrics may be impacted by data limitations or other factors that require us to apply different methodologies for such adjustments. If investors do not perceive our operating metrics to be accurate, or if we discover material inaccuracies with respect to these figures, our reputation may be significantly harmed, and our results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
We may need to change our pricing models to compete successfully.
The intense competition and evolving general and economic business conditions (including rising government debt levels, potential government policy shifts, changing U.S. consumer spending patterns, economic volatility, fluctuating tariff rates, trade wars, and high inflation and interest rates, among other things), may require us to change our pricing practices.
If our competitors offer deep discounts on certain solutions, provide offerings, or offer free introductory products that compete with ours, we may experience pricing pressure and may be unable to retain current customers and clients or attract new customers and clients at consistent prices within our operating budget. To compete effectively, we may need to lower prices, offer promotional or freemium products, or otherwise change our pricing models. Conversely, if we increase prices in response to economic conditions, cost pressures or strategic considerations, we may experience reduced customer acquisition and retention. Any such pricing changes could reduce revenue, margins and profitability.
Additionally, our solutions are discretionary purchases, and customers may reduce or eliminate their discretionary spending during periods of economic uncertainty, inflation, elevated interest rates, trade disruptions or other macroeconomic stress. We have experienced and may continue to experience a material increase in cancellations by customers or reduced retention during such periods.
Many of Avira’s and Avast’s users are freemium subscribers, meaning they do not pay for its basic services, and our growth strategy for their respective products depends upon attracting and converting Avira’s and Avast’s freemium users to a paid subscription option. Numerous factors, however, have previously and may continue to impede our ability to attract and retain free users, convert these users into paying customers and retain them as paying customers.
If we fail to manage our sales and distribution channels effectively, if our partners choose not to market and sell our solutions to their customers, or if we have an adverse change in our relationships with key third-party partners, service providers or vendors, our operating results could be materially and adversely affected.
A significant portion of our revenue is generated through indirect sales and distribution channels, including distributors, resellers, telecom service providers and strategic partners that bundle or incorporate our products into their offerings. In our MoneyLion business specifically, we also depend on channel partners that provide access to consumers – such as news sites, content publishers, product comparison sites and financial institutions – and on product partners that offer financial products through our marketplace platform.
Our channel and partner agreements are generally nonexclusive, impose no minimum sales or marketing commitments and may be terminated or renegotiated at any time, potentially on less favorable terms. Many of our partners frequently offer competing products or services and may prioritize those offerings based on pricing, promotional support, incentives, economics or strategic considerations.
Sales and revenues generated through indirect channels are subject to general economic conditions, competitive dynamics, changes in partner strategy and performance and partner financial health. For example, in our MoneyLion business, our success depends in part on the delivery of qualified consumer lead inquiries and conversions to completed transactions for various financial products to product partners. However, the failure of our marketplace platform to effectively connect and match consumers from our channel partners with product offerings from our product partners in a manner that results in converted customers and increased revenue for such product partners could cause product partners to cease spending marketing funds on our marketplace platform, which could have a material adverse impact on our ability to maintain or increase our marketplace revenue. Any reduction in partner sales efforts, termination of key relationships, delays in payment, adverse changes in commercial terms or other adverse channel developments could materially and adversely affect our revenue, margins and operating results.
In addition, the success of our business and our ability to engage and retain customers in our platform are dependent in part on our ability to produce or acquire popular content, which in turn depends on our ability to retain content creators and rights to content for our platform. We may in the future incur increasing revenue-sharing costs to compensate content creators for producing original content.
We have limited control over our partners’ business practices, and any misconduct, regulatory or legal noncompliance, financial distress, reputational harm or failure to perform involving a partner could negatively affect our brand, customer relationships and operations. If a partner fails to perform its obligations or comply with applicable requirements, our operations and financial results could be negatively impacted.
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Consolidation among retailers, online platforms, financial institutions or other distribution intermediaries may increase their negotiating leverage, reduce available distribution channels for us and negatively affect pricing and margins. In our MoneyLion business, changes in product partners’ underwriting standards, marketing budgets, financial condition or strategic priorities could reduce the availability of financial products on our platform, decrease marketing and advertising revenue, delay payments or otherwise negatively affect our results.
In general, any changes in these relationships or loss of these partners or vendors, any failure of them to perform their obligations in a timely manner or at all or if they were to cease to provide such functions for any reason, could degrade the functionality of our platform, materially and adversely affect usage of our products and services, impose additional costs or requirements or disadvantage us compared to our competitors. We also rely on relationships with third-party partners to obtain and maintain customers, and our ability to acquire new customers could be materially harmed if we are unable to enter into or maintain these relationships on terms that are commercially reasonable to us, or at all.
Finally, if we fail to manage our sales and distribution channels successfully, these channels may conflict with one another or otherwise fail to perform as we anticipate, which could reduce our sales and increase our expenses as well as weaken our competitive position.
Changes in industry structure and market conditions have and may continue to lead to charges related to discontinuance of certain products or businesses and asset impairments.
In response to changes in industry structure and market conditions, we have been and may continue to be required to strategically reallocate our resources and consider restructuring, disposing of, or otherwise exiting certain businesses. Any decision to limit investment in or dispose of or otherwise exit businesses has and may continue to result in the recording of special charges, such as technology-related write-offs, workforce reduction costs, charges relating to consolidation of excess facilities, or claims from third parties who were resellers or users of discontinued products. Our estimates with respect to the useful life or ultimate recoverability of our carrying basis of assets, including purchased intangible assets, could change as a result of such assessments and decisions. Our loss contingencies have and may continue to include liabilities for contracts that we cannot cancel, reschedule or adjust with suppliers.
Further, our estimates relating to the liabilities for excess facilities are affected by changes in real estate market conditions. Additionally, we are required to evaluate goodwill impairment on an annual basis and between annual evaluations in certain circumstances. Goodwill impairment evaluations have previously and may result in a charge to earnings.
RISKS RELATED TO OUR OPERATIONS
Our international operations involve risks that could increase our expenses, adversely affect our operating results and require increased time and attention from management.
We derive a significant portion of our revenues from customers located outside of the United States, and we have substantial operations outside of the United States, including engineering, finance, sales and customer support. Our international operations are subject to risks in addition to those faced by our domestic operations, including:
•Difficulties staffing, managing, and coordinating the activities of our geographically dispersed and culturally diverse operations;
•Potential loss of proprietary information due to misappropriation or laws that may be less protective of our intellectual property rights than U.S. laws or that may not be adequately enforced;
•Requirements of foreign laws and other governmental controls, including tariffs, trade barriers and labor restrictions, and related laws that reduce the flexibility of our business operations;
•Fluctuations in currency exchange rates, economic instability and inflationary conditions could make our solutions more expensive or could increase our costs of doing business in certain countries;
•Changes in trade relations arising from policy initiatives or other political factors;
•Regulations or restrictions on the use, import or export of encryption technologies that could delay or prevent the acceptance and use of encryption products and public networks for secure communications;
•Regulations or restrictions regarding the collection, processing, sharing, transfer, portability, security and storage of consumer data (including personal information), including privacy and data protection laws;
•Local business and cultural factors that differ from our normal standards and practices, including business practices that we are prohibited from engaging in by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption laws and regulations;
•Central bank and other restrictions on our ability to repatriate cash from our international subsidiaries or to exchange cash in international subsidiaries into cash available for use in the United States;
•Limitations on future growth or inability to maintain current levels of revenues from international sales if we do not invest sufficiently in our international operations;
•Difficulties in staffing, managing and operating our international operations;
•Costs and delays associated with developing software and providing support in multiple languages;
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•Political, social or economic unrest, war, terrorism, regional natural disasters, or export controls and trade restrictions, particularly in areas in which we have facilities and in areas where our engineering and technical development teams are based; and
•Multiple and possibly overlapping tax regimes, which may increase our tax exposure and compliance burden.
The expansion of our existing international operations and entry into additional international markets has required and will continue to require significant management attention and financial resources. These increased costs may increase our cost of acquiring international customers, which may delay our ability to achieve profitability or reduce our profitability in the future. We also have and may continue to face pressure to lower our prices in order to compete in emerging markets, which has previously and could in the future adversely affect revenue derived from our international operations.
It is not possible to predict the broader consequences of existing geopolitical conflicts and other conflicts that may arise in the future, which could include geopolitical instability and uncertainty; adverse impacts on global and regional economic conditions and financial markets, including significant volatility in credit, capital, and currency markets; reduced economic activity; changes in laws and regulations affecting our business, including further sanctions or counter-sanctions which may be enacted; and increased cybersecurity threats and concerns. The ultimate extent to which such conflicts may negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain, difficult to predict and subject to change.
Our future success depends on our ability to attract and retain personnel in a competitive marketplace.
Our future success depends upon our ability to recruit and retain key management, technical (including cyber security and AI experts), sales, marketing, e-commerce, finance and other personnel. Our officers and other key personnel are “at will” employees and we generally do not have employment or non-compete agreements with our employees. Competition is significant for people with the specific skills that we require, including in the areas of AI and machine learning, and especially in the locations where we have a substantial presence and need for such personnel.
To attract and retain talent, we must provide competitive pay packages, including cash and equity-based compensation. Volatility in our stock price may adversely affect the perceived value of our equity compensation and limitations on shares reserved under our equity compensation plans could impair our efforts to attract, retain and motivate necessary personnel. Additionally, changes in immigration laws could impair our ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees. If we are unable to hire and retain qualified employees, or conversely, if we fail to manage employee performance or reduce staffing levels when required by market conditions, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.
We have experienced, and may in the future experience, departures of key personnel, including significant changes to our executive leadership team. The loss of any key employee or the failure to effectively manage succession planning and knowledge transfer could disrupt our operations, including adversely affecting the timeliness of product releases, delaying product development, impairing execution of strategic company initiatives, expending resources to train new hires, or adversely affecting our internal control over financial reporting and our results of operations. If we are unable to attract, retain, motivate and appropriately manage qualified employees, or adjust staffing levels in response to changing business conditions, our business, financial condition, results of operations and future growth prospects could be adversely affected.
If we fail to offer high-quality customer support, our customer satisfaction may suffer and have a negative impact on our business and reputation.
Many of our customers rely on our customer support services to resolve issues, including technical support, billing and subscription issues, that may arise. If demand increases, or our resources decrease, we may be unable to offer the level of support our customers expect. Any failure by us to maintain the expected level of support could reduce customer satisfaction and negatively impact our customer retention and our business.
If the information provided to us by customers or other third parties is incorrect or fraudulent, we may misjudge a customer’s qualifications to receive our products and services and our results of operations may be harmed and could subject us to regulatory scrutiny or penalties.
Our decisions to provide many of our products and services to customers are based partly on information that they provide to us or authorize us to receive from third party sources. To the extent that these customers or third parties provide information to us in a manner that we are unable to verify or if such information is incorrect or fraudulent, our decisioning process may not accurately reflect the associated risk. In addition, data provided by third-party sources, including consumer reporting agencies, is a component of our credit decisions and this data may contain inaccuracies. This may result in the inability to either approve otherwise qualified applicants or reject otherwise unqualified applicants through our platform or accurately analyze credit data, which may adversely impact our business and negatively impact our reputation.
In addition, there is risk of fraudulent activity associated with our business, including as a result of the service providers and other third parties who handle customer information on our behalf. We use identity and fraud prevention tools to analyze data provided by external databases to authenticate the identity of each applicant that signs up for our first-party products and services. However, these checks have failed from time to time and may again fail in the future, and fraud, which may be significant, has and may in the future occur. The level of fraud-related charge-offs on the first-party products and services facilitated through our platform could be adversely affected if fraudulent activity were to significantly increase. We may not be able to recoup funds associated with our first-party products and services made in connection with inaccurate statements, omissions of fact or fraud, in which case our revenue, results of operations, profitability and cash flows will be harmed. High profile fraudulent activity or significant increases in fraudulent activity could also lead to regulatory intervention, negative publicity
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and the erosion of trust from our customers, which could negatively impact our results of operations, brand and reputation, and require us to take steps to reduce fraud risk, which could increase our costs.
Our solutions, systems, websites and the data on these sources have been and may continue to be subject to cybersecurity events that could materially harm our reputation and future sales.
Information security risks in the financial technology services industry in particular are significant, in part because of new technologies, the increasing digitalization to conduct financial and other business transactions and the increased sophistication and activities of organized criminals, perpetrators of fraud, hackers, terrorists and other malicious third parties. Well-publicized attacks or breaches affecting companies in the financial services industry, including large-scale attacks by foreign nation state actors and a significant uptick in ransomware/extortion attacks at other companies, have heightened customer and regulatory scrutiny and concern, causing customers to lose trust in the security of the industry in general and resulting in reduced use of our services and increased costs, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
Given the digital nature of our platform, we are an attractive target for attacks designed to impede the performance and availability of our offerings, compromise sensitive information and harm our reputation as a leading cyber security company. In addition, we face the risk of cyberattacks by nation-states and state-sponsored actors, which may increase due to geopolitical tensions. These attacks may target us, our partners, suppliers, vendors or customers. Malicious hackers, state-sponsored actors, insiders and third-party service providers have attempted to penetrate, and in some cases succeeded in penetrating, our networks or those of our vendors. Such attempts are increasing in number and in technical sophistication, including through the use of AI, and have in the past and could in the future expose us and the affected parties, to risk of loss or misuse of proprietary, personal or confidential information or disruptions of our business operations. Additionally, deployment of agentic AI with access to our systems, data, and third-party tools creates an expanded surface for cyberattacks, as threat actors may exploit inadequate controls to manipulate agents into executing unauthorized actions, accessing sensitive information, or initiating malicious transactions, and the autonomous nature of these systems may enable attackers to conduct multi-step attacks that evade traditional security controls before detection occurs.
When a data breach occurs, our information technology systems and infrastructure can be subject to damage, compromise, disruption, and shutdown due to attacks or breaches by hackers or other circumstances, such as error or malfeasance by employees or third-party service providers, phishing, social engineering, account takeovers, vulnerability exploitation, misconfigurations, ransomware, or technology malfunction. A data breach may result in significant legal, financial, and reputational harm, including government inquiries, enforcement actions, litigation (including class actions), and negative publicity. A series of breaches may be determined to be material at a later date in the aggregate, even if they may not be material individually at the time of their occurrence. The occurrence of any of these events, as well as a failure to promptly remedy them when they occur, could compromise our systems and the information stored in our systems and may cause us to lose consumer trust. Any such circumstance could adversely affect our ability to attract and maintain customers as well as strategic partners, cause us to suffer negative publicity or damage to our brand, and subject us to legal claims and liabilities or regulatory penalties. In addition, unauthorized parties might alter information in our databases, which would adversely affect both the reliability of that information and our ability to market and perform our services as well as undermine our ability to remain compliant with relevant laws and regulations.
Techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently, are constantly evolving and generally are difficult to recognize and react to effectively, and are increasingly becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect due to the use of “deepfakes”, voice imitation technology and other AI tools. Despite our efforts, we are not always able to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate or timely preventive or reactive measures. We and our third-party service providers have experienced and may continue to experience such incidents, particularly as we integrate legacy IT infrastructure and systems. Threat actors have previously and could in the future exploit a new vulnerability before we complete our remediation work or identify a vulnerability that we did not effectively remediate. If that happens, there could be unauthorized access to, or acquisition of, data we maintain, and damage to our systems. Our evolving IT environment, including embracing new ways of sharing data and communicating and increasing our internal use of Gen AI, may introduce new attack vectors, and our policies and controls may not keep pace with emerging threats or regulatory requirements.
Finally, the software upon which we rely may contain undetected technical errors or bugs, which may only be discovered after the code has been released for external or internal use. Technical errors or other design defects within the software upon which we rely may result in a negative experience for customers, clients or third-party partners and issues in our provision of our products and services or their functionality, failure to accurately predict or evaluate the suitability of new and existing customers for our products and services, failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations, failure to detect fraudulent activity on our platform, delayed introductions of new features or enhancements or failure to protect consumer data, our intellectual property or other sensitive data or proprietary information. Any technical errors, bugs or defects discovered in the software upon which we rely could result in harm to our reputation, loss of customers, clients or third-party partners, increased regulatory scrutiny, fines or penalties, loss of revenue or liability for damages, any of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
We collect, use, disclose, store or otherwise process personal information and other sensitive data, which is subject to stringent and changing state and federal laws and regulations.
In the operation of our business, particularly in relation to our identity and information protection service and financial wellness offerings, we collect, use, process, store, transmit or disclose (collectively, process) an increasingly large amount of confidential information, including personal information (which includes credit card information and other critical data) from
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employees and customers in multiple jurisdictions. This information is subject to a rapidly evolving and increasingly complex framework of federal, state and foreign privacy, data protection and data security laws, as well as contractual obligations.
At the federal level, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (the GLBA) (along with its implementing regulations) requires disclosures to consumers about our handling of their nonpublic personal information and provides consumers with certain rights to restrict information sharing. Additionally, our investment adviser and broker-dealer subsidiaries are subject to SEC Regulation S-P, which mandates policies and procedures designed to safeguard customer information.
At the state level, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CCPA), and similar comprehensive privacy laws enacted in multiple other U.S. states, provide consumers with rights to access, correct, delete and restrict the use, sale or sharing of their personal information and impose disclosure, governance and data protection obligations on covered businesses. These state laws provide civil penalties for violations, as well as private rights of action for certain data breaches. Additional states continue to enact comprehensive privacy legislation, creating a fragmented and evolving compliance environment that increases operational complexity and costs.
Additionally, the Federal Trade Commission (the FTC) and many state attorneys general, are interpreting federal and state consumer protection laws to impose standards for the online collection, use, dissemination, and security of data. The burdens imposed by the new state privacy laws and other similar laws that may be enacted at the federal and state level may require us to modify our data processing practices and policies, adapt our goods and services and incur substantial expenditures in order to comply. Any failure or perceived failure by us to comply with such obligations has previously and may in the future result in governmental enforcement actions, fines, litigation (including class actions) or public statements against us by consumer advocacy groups or others and could cause our customers to lose trust in us, which could have an adverse effect on our reputation and business.
We process personal data relating to individuals in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom and are subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK GDPR, which impose significant compliance obligations, restrict cross-border data transfers and authorize substantial administrative fines for noncompliance. Global privacy and data protection legislation and enforcement are rapidly expanding and evolving, and, in some jurisdictions, may impose data localization laws or cross-border transfer restrictions, which may require us to expand our data storage facilities there or build new ones in order to comply. The expenditure this would require, as well as costs of compliance generally, could harm our financial condition. Additionally, changes to applicable privacy or data security laws could impact how we process personal information and therefore limit the effectiveness of our solutions or our ability to develop new solutions.
Because the interpretation and application of many privacy and data protection laws is uncertain, it is possible that these laws may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with our existing data management practices or the features of our products and services and platform capabilities. If so, in addition to the possibility of fines, lawsuits, regulatory investigations, government actions, consumer and merchant actions, and other claims, we could be required to fundamentally change our business activities and practices or modify our platform, which could have an adverse effect on our business. Any violations or perceived violations of these laws, rules and regulations by us, or any third parties with which we do business, may require us to change our business practices or operational structure, including limiting our activities in certain states and/or jurisdictions, addressing legal claims by governmental entities or private actors, sustaining monetary penalties, sustaining reputational damage, expending substantial costs, time and other resources and/or sustaining other harms to our business. Furthermore, our online, external-facing privacy policy and website make certain statements regarding our privacy, information security and data security practices with regard to information collected from our consumers or visitors to our website. Failure or perceived failure to adhere to such practices may result in regulatory scrutiny and investigation, complaints by affected consumers or visitors to our website, reputational damage and/or other harm to our business. If either we, or the third-party partners, service providers or vendors with which we share consumer data, are unable to address privacy concerns, even if unfounded, or to comply with applicable privacy or data protection laws, regulations and policies, it could result in additional costs and liability to us, damage our reputation, inhibit sales and harm our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Additionally, there often exists a lack of transparency regarding the sources of data (including personal data) used to train or develop third-party AI technologies or how inputs are converted to outputs, and we may not be able to fully validate this process and its accuracy (particularly where it is part of a complex, multi-step process and inaccurate or incomplete information may be compounded across many steps, such as in agentic AI systems).
Our inability to successfully recover from a disaster or other business continuity event could impair our ability to deliver our products and services and harm our business.
We are heavily reliant on our technology and infrastructure to provide our products and services to our customers. We use third-party service providers and vendors, such as our cloud computing web services providers, account transaction and card processing companies, in the operation of certain of our platforms and source certain information from third-parties. For example, we host many of our products using third-party data center facilities and we do not control the operation of these facilities. These facilities are vulnerable to damage, interference, interruption or performance problems from earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, power loss, telecommunications failures, pandemics and similar events. They are also subject to break-ins, computer viruses, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism and other misconduct. The occurrence of a natural disaster, an act of terrorism, state-sponsored attacks, a pandemic, geopolitical tensions or armed conflicts, and similar events could result in facility closures or other unanticipated problems without adequate notice, which in turn, could result in lengthy interruptions in the delivery of our products and services and negatively impact our sales and operating results.
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If an arrangement with a third-party service provider or vendor is terminated or if there is a lapse of service or damage to its systems or facilities, we could experience interruptions in our ability to operate our platform. We also may experience increased costs and difficulties in replacing such third-party service provider or vendor, and replacement services may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, on a timely basis, or at all. In the event of damage or interruption, our insurance policies may not adequately compensate us for any losses that we may incur.
Furthermore, our business administration, human resources, compliance efforts and finance services depend on the proper functioning of our computer, telecommunication and other related systems and operations, which are highly technical and complex. A disruption or failure of these systems or operations because of a disaster, cyberattack or other business continuity event, such as a pandemic, could cause data to be lost or otherwise delay our ability to complete sales and provide the highest level of service to our customers. In addition, we could have difficulty producing accurate financial statements on a timely basis, and deficiencies may arise in our internal control over financial reporting, which may impact our ability to certify our financial results, all of which could adversely affect the trading value of our stock. There are no assurances that data recovery in the event of a disaster would be effective or occur in an efficient manner. If these systems or their functionality do not operate as we expect them to, we may be required to expend significant resources to make corrections or find alternative sources for performing these functions.
We are dependent upon Broadcom for certain engineering and threat response services, which are critical to many of our products and business.
Our Norton branded endpoint security solution has historically relied upon certain threat analytics software engines and other software (the Engine-Related Services) that have been developed and provided by engineering teams that have transferred to Broadcom as part of the Broadcom sale in 2019. The technology, including source code, at issue is shared, and pursuant to the terms of the Broadcom sale, we retain rights to use, modify, enhance and create derivative works from such technology. Broadcom has committed to provide these Engine-Related Services substantially to the same extent and in substantially the same manner, as has been historically provided under a license agreement with a limited term.
As a result, we are dependent on Broadcom for services and technology that are critical to our business, and if Broadcom fails to deliver these Engine-Related Services it would result in significant business disruption, and our business and operating results and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected. Furthermore, if our current sources become unavailable, and if we are unable to develop or obtain alternatives to integrate or deploy them in time, our ability to compete effectively could be impacted and have a material adverse effect on our business. Additionally, in connection with the Broadcom sale, we lost other capabilities, including certain threat intelligence data which were historically provided by our former Enterprise Security business, the lack of which could have a negative impact on our business and products.
Our solutions are complex and operate in a wide variety of environments, systems and configurations, which could result in failures of our solutions to function as designed.
Because we offer complex solutions, errors, defects, disruptions, or other performance problems with our solutions may occur and have occurred. For example, we may experience disruptions, outages and other performance problems due to a variety of factors, including infrastructure changes, human or software errors, fraud, security attacks or capacity constraints due to an overwhelming number of users accessing our websites simultaneously. As we continue to expand the number of our customers and the products and services available through our platform, we may not be able to scale our technology to accommodate the increased capacity requirements. The failure of data centers, internet service providers or other third-party service providers or vendors to meet our capacity requirements could result in interruptions or delays in access to our platform or impede our ability to grow our business and scale our operations.
In some instances, we may not be able to identify the cause or causes of these performance problems within an acceptable period of time. Interruptions in our solutions could impact our revenues, prevent our customers from accessing their accounts, damage our reputation with current and potential customers, expose us to liability, cause us to lose customers, cause the loss of critical data or personal information, prevent us from supporting our platform, products or services or processing transactions with our customers or cause us to incur additional expense in arranging for new facilities and support or otherwise harm our business, any of which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows in a disaster recovery scenario.
To the extent we use or are dependent on any particular third-party data, technology or software, we may also be harmed if such data, technology, or software becomes non-compliant with existing regulations or industry standards, becomes subject to third-party claims of intellectual property infringement, misappropriation or other violation, or malfunctions or functions in a way we did not anticipate. Any loss of the right to use any of this data, technology or software could result in delays in the provisioning of our products and services until equivalent or replacement data, technology or software is either developed by us, or, if available, is identified, obtained and integrated, and there is no guarantee that we would be successful in developing, identifying, obtaining or integrating equivalent or similar data, technology or software, which could result in the loss or limiting of our products or services or features available in our products or services.
Negative publicity regarding our brand, solutions and business could harm our competitive position.
Our brand recognition and reputation as a trusted service provider are critical aspects of our business and key to retaining existing customers and attracting new customers. Our business could be harmed due to errors, defects, disruptions or other performance problems with our solutions causing our customers and potential customers to believe our solutions are unreliable.
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We may introduce, or make changes to, features, products, services, privacy practices or terms of service that customers and clients do not like, which may materially and adversely affect our brand. Our efforts to build our brand have involved significant expense, and our marketing spend may increase in the near term or in the future and may not generate or maintain brand awareness or increase revenue.
Furthermore, negative publicity, whether or not justified, including intentional brand misappropriation, relating to events or activities attributed to us, our employees, our strategic partners, our affiliates, or others associated with any of these parties, may tarnish our reputation and reduce the value of our brands. Damage to our reputation and loss of brand equity may reduce demand for our solutions and have an adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. Moreover, any attempts to rebuild our reputation and restore the value of our brands may be costly and time consuming, and such efforts may not ultimately be successful.
Our reputation and/or business could be negatively impacted by sustainability and governance matters and/or our reporting of such matters.
The evolving focus from regulators, customers, certain investors, employees, and other stakeholders concerning sustainability and governance matters and related disclosures, both in the United States and internationally, has resulted in, and is likely to continue to result in, increased general and administrative expenses and increased management time and attention spent complying with or meeting sustainability-related requirements and expectations. Our business is subject to evolving reporting standards, including the recent California legislation, Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act, which includes disclosure requirements relating to voluntary carbon offsets and a wide range of environmental marketing claims, and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, which requires large EU companies to make detailed disclosures in relation to certain sustainability-related issues. We maintain certain sustainability-related initiatives, goals, and/or commitments. If we fail to achieve progress with respect to our sustainability-related initiatives, goals or commitments on a timely and cost-efficient basis, or at all, or if our sustainability-related data, processes and reporting are incomplete or inaccurate, our reputation, business, financial performance and growth could be adversely affected. Additionally, changing federal enforcement priorities and legal interpretations regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs present unknown and evolving risks.
We are affected by seasonality, which has in the past and may in the future impact our revenue and results of operations.
Portions of our business are impacted by seasonality. Seasonal behavior in orders has historically occurred in the third and fourth quarters of our fiscal year, which include the important selling periods during the holidays in our third quarter, as well as follow-on holiday purchases and the U.S. tax filing season, which is typically in our fourth quarter. Revenue generally reflects similar seasonal patterns, but to a lesser extent than orders. This is due to our subscription business model, as a large portion of our in-period revenue is recognized ratably from our deferred revenue balance. An unexpected decrease in sales over those traditionally high-volume selling periods may impact our revenue and could have a disproportionate effect on our results of operations for the entire fiscal year.
RISKS RELATED TO LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE
Our solutions are highly regulated, which could impede our ability to market and provide our solutions, increase regulatory scrutiny or adversely affect our business, financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
Our solutions are subject to a high degree of regulation, including a wide variety of international and U.S. federal, state, and local laws and regulations, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the GLBA, the Consumer Financial Protection Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act (the FTC Act), and comparable state laws that are patterned after the FTC Act, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, U.S. domestic bribery laws, U.S. consumer protection, consumer financial services and banking laws, and U.S. and foreign anti-corruption laws.
We provide, facilitate or market consumer financial products and services, and in certain cases act as a service provider to regulated financial institutions. Therefore, we are subject to the supervisory, regulatory and enforcement authority of federal and state agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the FTC, state banking and consumer finance regulators and state attorneys general. These authorities may exercise authority with respect to our services, or the marketing and servicing of those services, through the oversight of our financial institution partners and suppliers, or by otherwise exercising their supervisory, regulatory or enforcement authority over consumer financial products and services. The regulatory frameworks applicable to our business continue to evolve, including with respect to earned wage access, lending, banking, digital financial services and related activities. If, for example, the CFPB were to expand its supervisory authority by promulgating new regulations or reinterpreting existing regulations, it is possible that the CFPB could be permitted to conduct periodic examination of our business, which may increase our risk of regulatory or enforcement actions.
We maintain a compliance program designed to enable us to comply with all applicable anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism financing and economic sanctions laws and regulations, including the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, and its implementing regulations. This compliance program includes policies, procedures, processes and other internal controls designed to identify, monitor, manage and mitigate the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing and prevent our platform from being used to facilitate business in countries or with persons or entities that are the subject of sanctions administered by Office of Foreign Assets Control and equivalent international authorities or that are otherwise the target of sanctions. These controls include procedures and processes to detect and report potentially suspicious transactions, perform customer due diligence, respond to requests from law enforcement and meet all recordkeeping and reporting requirements related to particular transactions involving currency or monetary instruments. Certain of our subsidiaries may be “financial institutions” under the BSA that are required to establish and maintain a BSA/AML compliance program. Additionally,
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we are required to maintain a BSA/AML compliance program under our agreements with our third-party partners, and certain state regulatory agencies have intimated they expect such program to be in place and followed.
Additionally, we are regulated by many state regulatory agencies through licensing and other supervisory or enforcement authority, which includes regular examination by state governmental authorities. For a more detailed description of licensing, see “-- If we fail to operate in compliance with state or local licensing requirements, it could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.”
Our wholly-owned subsidiary, ML Wealth, is registered as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act) and is subject to regulation by the SEC. The Advisers Act, together with related regulations and interpretations of the SEC, impose numerous obligations and restrictions on investment advisers, including requirements relating to the safekeeping of client funds and securities, limitations on advertising, disclosure and reporting obligations, prohibitions on fraudulent activities, restrictions on agency cross and principal transactions between an adviser and its advisory clients and other detailed operating requirements, as well as general fiduciary obligations.
U.S. federal regulators, state attorneys general or other state enforcement authorities and other governmental agencies have in the past and may in the future take formal or informal actions against us, which and could cause reputational and financial harm to our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. These formal and informal actions may involve inquiries, subpoenas, exams, pending investigations, enforcement matters and litigation by state and federal regulators, cease and desist orders, fines, civil penalties, criminal penalties or other disciplinary action or force us to adopt new compliance programs or policies, remove personnel including senior executives, provide remediation or refunds to customers, or undertake other changes to our business operations, such as limits or prohibitions of our ability to offer certain products and services, or suspension or revocation of one or more of our licenses. Any weaknesses in our compliance management system may also subject us to penalties or enforcement action by the CFPB or state regulators. We have in the past, and may again in the future, enter into settlements, consent decrees and similar arrangements with the FTC, the CFPB, state attorneys generals and other state regulators, and other sovereign regulators and competition authorities such as the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). In addition, certain products we offer, including loans or advance products facilitated through our platform, could be rendered void or unenforceable in whole or in part, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. If we fail to manage our legal and regulatory risk in the jurisdictions in which we operate, our business could suffer, our reputation could be harmed and we would be subject to additional legal and regulatory risks. This could, in turn, increase the size and number of claims and damages asserted against us and/or subject us to regulatory investigations, enforcement actions or other proceedings, or lead to increased regulatory concerns. We may also be required to spend additional time and resources on remedial measures and conducting inquiries, beyond those already initiated and ongoing, which could have an adverse effect on our business. Additionally, the highly regulated environment in which our third-party financial institution partners operate may subject us to regulation, which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. We rely on bank partners, payment processors and other institutions with licensures we do not have to facilitate offerings.
For a discussion of specific legal and regulatory proceedings, inquiries and investigations to which we are currently subject, see Note 18 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
The legal and regulatory regimes governing certain of our products and services are uncertain and evolving.
Changes in the laws, regulations and enforcement priorities applicable to our business, including reexamination of current enforcement practices, could have a material and adverse impact on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. For example, the CFPB may adopt new model disclosures and regulations governing consumer financial services, including regulations defining unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices, and they could also issue advisory opinions or other similar soft tools to complement its rulemaking authority that could subject us to new or differing legal and regulatory requirements, which could materially and adversely affect our business. The CFPB’s authority to change or interpret regulations adopted in the past by other regulators, or to rescind or alter past regulatory guidance, could increase our compliance costs and litigation exposure. If the CFPB or other similar regulatory bodies adopt, or customer advocacy groups are able to generate widespread support for, positions that are detrimental to our business, then our business, financial condition and results of operations could be harmed. We and/or our third-party partners may not be able to respond quickly or effectively to regulatory, legislative and other developments.
In particular, the regulatory landscape regarding earned wage access products (including our Instacash product) is uncertain and evolving given rapid growth in the use of such products in recent years. State and federal regulators have in the past and may in the future launch inquiries, reviews or similar investigations or issue new, or change or interpret, regulations or rules relating to earned wage access products, which could result in additional compliance requirements and other risks relating to our current and past business activities as described herein, including with respect to whether such products constitute extensions of credit, fee disclosures, tipping practices, or other consumer protection considerations. These developments may not only result in additional compliance requirements but may also be cited by private plaintiffs or plaintiffs’ attorneys as a basis for litigation, including putative class actions, alleging violations of federal or state consumer protection, lending, or unfair or deceptive acts or practices laws. Additionally, proposals to change the statutes affecting financial services companies are frequently introduced in Congress and state legislatures that, if enacted, could affect our operating environment in substantial and unpredictable ways and may further increase the risk of private litigation or enforcement. We cannot determine with any degree of certainty whether any such legislative or regulatory proposals will be enacted and, if enacted, the ultimate impact that any such potential legislation or implemented regulations, or any such potential regulatory actions by federal or state regulators, would have upon our business or our operating environment. As a result, we could be forced, as we have in the past, to temporarily pause, limit or
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permanently cease to offer our earned wage access product in certain states depending on state regulatory regimes. These changes and uncertainties make our business planning more difficult and could result in changes to our business model, impair our ability to offer our existing or planned features, products and services or increase our cost of doing business.
We cannot determine with any degree of certainty whether any legislative or regulatory changes will be enacted and, if enacted, the ultimate impact that any such potential legislation or implemented regulations, or any such potential regulatory actions by federal or state regulators, would have upon our business or our operating environment. These changes and uncertainties make our business planning more difficult and could result in changes to our business model, impair our ability to offer our existing or planned features, products and services or increase our cost of doing business.
In addition, numerous federal and state regulators have the authority to promulgate or change regulations that could have a similar effect on our third-party partners and service providers and restrict their business practices. New laws, regulations, rules, guidance and policies could require us to incur significant expenses to ensure compliance, adversely impact our profitability, limit our ability to continue existing or pursue new business activities, require us to change certain of our business practices or alter our relationships with customers, affect retention of key personnel or expose us to additional costs (including customer remediation). For example, the regulatory frameworks for an open banking paradigm and AI and machine learning technology are evolving and remain uncertain and may affect the operation of our platform and the way in which we use consumer data, AI and machine learning technology, including with respect to consumer protection laws and the laws and regulations governing financial services products. For additional information regarding risks related to the use of AI, see "--Issues in the development and deployment of AI, including generative AI, could expose us to regulatory, privacy, IP, cybersecurity, operational and reputational risks.”
If we fail to operate in compliance with state or local licensing requirements, it could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
Certain states and localities have adopted laws regulating and requiring licensing, registration, notice filing or other approval by parties that engage in certain activity regarding consumer financial services products such as loans and earned wage access services, life insurance and mortgage transactions, as well as brokering, facilitating and assisting such transactions in certain circumstances, and we currently hold certain state or local licenses. However, the application of some licensing laws to our platform and activities is uncertain and subject to evolving regulatory interpretations including, in particular, as the regulatory landscape regarding earned wage access products develops, as well as increased licensing requirements and regulation of parties engaged in loan solicitation activities.
If we were found to be in violation of applicable state licensing requirements by a court or a state, federal or local enforcement agency, or agree to resolve such concerns by voluntary agreement, we could be subject to or agree to pay fines, damages, injunctive relief (including required modification or discontinuation of our business in certain areas), criminal penalties and other penalties or consequences.
If we expand or modify our business activities, we may be required to obtain additional licenses, and regulators may determine that such licenses were required at an earlier time, potentially resulting in penalties or restrictions. In addition, states that currently impose limited regulation may adopt new licensing or regulatory requirements, including with respect to earned wage access or loan solicitation activities. We may not be able to obtain or maintain all required licenses on acceptable terms, or at all, which could require us to limit or discontinue certain activities. The failure to satisfy those and other regulatory requirements could materially and adversely impact our business.
Certain states may also impose licensing requirements relating to blockchain technologies and digital assets. Although we are not directly involved in the custody, trading or exchange of digital assets and instead rely on a third-party provider, regulatory frameworks governing digital assets continue to evolve and may subject us to additional licensing or compliance obligations.
Because we do not custody digital assets directly and do not maintain insurance covering such assets—and our third-party provider does not maintain separate insurance coverage for customer digital assets—customers transacting in digital assets through our platform may suffer uninsured losses with limited recourse. Any regulatory action, licensing deficiency or customer losses associated with digital asset activities could result in enforcement actions, litigation, reputational harm and adverse impacts on our business.
If loans made by our lending subsidiaries in our consumer lending business are found to violate applicable federal or state interest rate limits or other provisions of applicable consumer lending, consumer protection or other laws, it could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
In our consumer lending business, we have 34 subsidiaries through which we conduct our consumer lending business. These entities originate loans pursuant to state licenses or applicable exemptions under state law. The loans we originate are subject to state licensing or exemption requirements and federal and state interest rate restrictions, as well as numerous federal and state requirements regarding consumer protection, interest rate, disclosure, prohibitions on certain activities and loan term lengths. We have in the past been, are currently, and may in the future be subject to litigation, investigations, examinations and other proceedings by governmental agencies or private parties relating to the legality of certain lending products or related compliance with applicable laws. If the loans we originate were deemed subject to and in violation of certain federal or state consumer finance or other laws, including the Military Lending Act, we could be subject to fines, damages, injunctive relief (including required modification or discontinuation of our business in certain areas) and other penalties or consequences, and the loans could be rendered void or unenforceable in whole or in part, any of which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
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If we do not protect our proprietary information and prevent third parties from making unauthorized use of our products and technology, our financial results could be harmed.
Much of our software and underlying technology is proprietary, and thus we are highly dependent on our ability to protect such technology. There is no guarantee that confidentiality agreements, our procedures and copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret laws will be sufficient to protect our technology. For example, patents may not be issued from our pending patent applications and claims allowed on any future issued patents may not be sufficiently broad to protect our technology. Also, these protections may not preclude competitors from independently developing products with functionality or features similar to our products. These measures afford only limited protection, are costly to maintain and may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented by third parties. Accordingly, enforcement of our intellectual property rights may be difficult, particularly in some countries outside of North America in which we seek to market our software products and services, and the absence of internationally harmonized intellectual property laws or the lack of some laws in certain jurisdictions makes it more difficult to ensure consistent protection of our proprietary rights. For example, software piracy has been, and is expected to be, a persistent problem for the software industry, and a loss of revenue to us.
Unauthorized third parties, including our competitors, may reverse engineer, access, obtain, distribute, sell or use the proprietary aspects of our technology, processes, products, information or services without our permission, thereby impeding our ability to promote our platform and possibly leading to customer confusion. Third parties have previously and may in the future also develop similar or superior technology independently by designing around our patents. Our consumer agreements do not require a signature and therefore may be unenforceable under the laws of some jurisdictions. Any legal action to protect proprietary information that we may bring or be engaged in with a strategic partner or vendor could adversely affect our ability to access software, operating system and hardware platforms of such partner or vendor, or cause such partner or vendor to choose not to offer our products to their customers. In addition, any legal action to protect proprietary information that we may bring or be engaged in, could be costly, may distract management from day-to-day operations and may lead to additional claims against us, which could adversely affect our operating results.
In addition to registered intellectual property rights such as trademark registrations, we rely on non-registered proprietary information and technology, such as trade secrets, confidential information, know-how and technical information. The secrecy of such trade secrets and other sensitive information could be compromised, which could cause us to lose the competitive advantage resulting from these trade secrets. For example, there is a risk of employees inadvertently inputting trade secret information into Gen AI technologies, thereby enabling third parties, including our competitors, to access such information. We utilize confidentiality and intellectual property assignment agreements with our employees and contractors involved in the development of material intellectual property for us, which require such individuals to assign such intellectual property to us and place restrictions on the employees’ and contractors’ use and disclosure of our confidential information. However, these agreements may not be self-executing, and we cannot guarantee that we have entered into such agreements containing obligations of confidentiality with each party that has or may have had access to proprietary information, know-how or trade secrets owned or held by us. Additionally, our contractual arrangements may be insufficient, breached or may otherwise not effectively prevent disclosure of, or control access to, our confidential or otherwise proprietary information or provide an adequate remedy in the event of an unauthorized disclosure, which could cause us to lose any competitive advantage resulting from this intellectual property. Individuals that were involved in the development of intellectual property for us or who had access to our intellectual property may make adverse ownership claims to our current and future intellectual property. Likewise, to the extent that our employees, independent contractors or other third parties with whom we do business use intellectual property owned by others in their work for us, disputes may arise as to the rights in related or resulting works of authorship, know-how and inventions.
The measures we have put in place may not prevent misappropriation, infringement or other violation of our intellectual property, proprietary rights or information, and any resulting loss of competitive advantage, and we may be required to litigate to protect our intellectual property or other proprietary rights or information from misappropriation, infringement or other violation by others, which is time-consuming and expensive, could cause a diversion of resources and may not be successful. Additionally, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property and other proprietary rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims and countersuits attacking the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property and other proprietary rights, and if such defenses, counterclaims or countersuits are successful, it could diminish, or we could otherwise lose, valuable intellectual property and other proprietary rights. Any of the foregoing could adversely impact our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
In addition, the integration of Gen AI may also expose us to risks regarding intellectual property ownership and license rights, particularly if any copyrighted material is embedded in training models or if the output we produce is infringing intellectual property rights. In addition, the use of Gen AI in connection with the creation or development of intellectual property may present challenges in asserting ownership over the resulting output given the position of some courts and intellectual property offices in various jurisdictions that some human contribution is required for intellectual property protection of an AI-generated work.
From time to time, we are party to lawsuits and investigations, which have previously and could in the future require significant management time and attention, cause us to incur significant legal expenses and prevent us from selling our products.
From time to time, we are involved in litigation, investigations, examinations and other legal or administrative proceedings initiated by governmental agencies or private parties. These matters may involve, among other things, labor and employment, discrimination and harassment, commercial disputes, class actions, general contract and tort claims, defamation, data privacy rights, antitrust, fraud, securities (including “blue sky” laws) violations, consumer protection laws, and other regulatory or
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compliance issues. Such matters may adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Refer to Note 18 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Due to the consumer-oriented nature of a significant portion of our business and the application of certain laws and regulations, we and other industry participants are regularly named as defendants in litigation alleging violations of federal and state laws and regulations and consumer law torts, including fraud. Many of these legal proceedings involve alleged violations of consumer protection laws. In addition, we have in the past and may in the future be subject to litigation, claims, examinations, investigations, legal and administrative cases and proceedings related to our loan products and other financial services we provide. For instance, our membership model and some of the products and services we offer, including our earned wage access product, Instacash, are relatively novel and have been and may in the future continue to be subject to regulatory scrutiny or interest and/or litigation. Any regulatory action in the future could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
The defense, settlement or resolution of legal proceedings may be costly and divert management’s attention from the day-to-day operations of our business. Proceedings may evolve over time, increasing their scope or potential exposure. An unfavorable outcome in a matter could result in significant fines, settlements, monetary damages, or injunctive relief that could negatively and materially impact our ability to conduct our business, results of operations and cash flows. Additionally, in the event we did not previously accrue for such litigation or proceeding in our financial statements, we may be required to record retrospective accruals that adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
Finally, we may not be able to maintain insurance coverage on acceptable terms, or at all, and our insurance may not cover all risks or potential liabilities. Any uninsured or underinsured loss could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
Third parties have claimed and additional third parties in the future may claim that we infringe their proprietary rights.
Third parties have claimed and additional third parties may claim in the future that we have infringed their intellectual property rights, including claims regarding patents, copyrights and trademarks. For additional information on such claims, please refer to Note 18 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Because of constant technological change in the segments in which we compete, the extensive patent coverage of existing technologies, and the rapid rate of issuance of new patents, it is possible that the number of these claims may grow. In addition, former employers of our former, current or future employees may assert claims that such employees have improperly disclosed to us confidential or proprietary information of these former employers. Any such claim, with or without merit, could result in costly litigation, management distraction and reputational harm. If we are not successful in defending such claims, we could be required to stop selling, delay shipments of, or redesign our solutions, pay monetary amounts as damages, enter into royalty or licensing arrangements, or satisfy indemnification obligations that we have with some of our partners. We cannot assure you that any royalty or licensing arrangements that we may seek in such circumstances will be available to us on commercially reasonable terms or at all.
We license and use software from third parties in our business and generally must rely on those third parties to protect the licensed rights and avoid infringement. Such licenses may terminate, expire or become unavailable on acceptable terms, and licensed technology may become obsolete, defective or incompatible with future versions of our offerings. Failure to comply with license terms could result in termination of rights, damages or operational disruption. If we are unable to obtain or maintain necessary third-party licenses, or if licensors impose more restrictive terms or higher fees or royalties, we may be required to modify our products, obtain alternative technology, incur increased costs or limit certain offerings. Furthermore, incorporating intellectual property or proprietary rights in our products or services licensed from or otherwise made available to us by third parties on a non-exclusive basis could limit our ability to protect the intellectual property and proprietary rights in our products and services and our ability to restrict third parties from developing, selling or otherwise providing similar or competitive technology using the same third-party intellectual property or proprietary rights
Some of our products contain “open source” software, and any failure to comply with the terms of one or more of these open source licenses could negatively affect our business.
Certain of our products are distributed with software licensed by its authors or other third parties under so-called “open source” licenses. Some of these licenses contain requirements that we make available source code for modifications or derivative works we create based upon the open source software and that we license such modifications or derivative works under the terms of a particular open source license or other license granting third parties certain rights of further use. By the terms of certain open source licenses, we could be required to release the source code of our proprietary software (which could include our proprietary source code or AI models) if we combine our proprietary software with open source software in a certain manner. Some open source software may include Gen AI software which may expose us to risks as the intellectual property ownership and license rights, including copyright, of Gen AI software and tools has not been fully interpreted by U.S. courts or been fully addressed by federal, state, or international regulations. In addition to risks related to license requirements, using open source software, including open source software that incorporates or relies on Gen AI, can lead to greater risks than use of third-party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide warranties or controls on origin of the software. We cannot be sure that all open source, including open source that incorporates or relies on Gen AI, is submitted for approval prior to use in our products. In addition, many of the risks associated with usage of open source, including open source that incorporates or relies on Gen AI, may not or cannot be eliminated and could, if not properly addressed, negatively affect our business.
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These claims could result in litigation and if portions of our proprietary AI models or software are determined to be subject to an open-source license, or if the license terms for the open-source software that we incorporate change, we could be required to publicly release all or affected portions of our source code, purchase a costly license, cease offering the implicated products or services unless and until we can re-engineer such source code in a manner that avoids infringement, discontinue or delay the provision of our offerings if re-engineering could not be accomplished on a timely basis or change our business activities, any of which could negatively affect our business operations and potentially our intellectual property rights and help third parties, including our competitors, develop products and services that are similar to or better than ours. In addition, the re-engineering process could require us to expend significant additional research and development resources, and we may not be able to complete the re-engineering process successfully. If we were required to publicly disclose any portion of our proprietary models, it is possible we could lose the benefit of trade secret protection for our models. Use of open-source software may also present additional security risks because the public availability of such software may make it easier for hackers and other third parties to determine how to breach our website and systems that rely on open-source software. Any of these risks associated with the use of open-source software could be difficult to eliminate or manage and, if not addressed, could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
RISKS RELATED TO OUR LIQUIDITY AND INDEBTEDNESS
Our substantial indebtedness and related debt obligations could limit our financial and operating flexibility and increase our vulnerability to adverse business and economic conditions.
As of April 3, 2026, we had an aggregate of $8,275 million of outstanding indebtedness that will mature in calendar years 2027 through 2033, and $1,495 million, net of our letters of credit, available for borrowing under our revolving credit facility. See Note 10 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information on our outstanding debt. Our ability to meet expenses, comply with the covenants and the springing maturity provisions under our debt instruments, pay interest and repay principal for our substantial level of indebtedness depends on, among other things, our operating performance, competitive developments, and financial market conditions, all of which are significantly affected by financial, business, economic and other factors. We are not able to control many of these factors. Accordingly, our cash flow may not be sufficient to allow us to pay principal and interest on our debt, including our 6.75% Senior Notes due 2027, 7.125% Senior Notes due 2030 and 6.25% Senior Notes due 2033 (collectively, the Senior Notes), and meet our other obligations. Our level of indebtedness could have other important consequences, including the following:
•We must use a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to pay interest and principal on the Amended Credit Agreement, our existing Senior Notes, and other indebtedness, which reduces funds available to us for other purposes such as working capital, capital expenditures, other general corporate purposes and potential acquisitions;
•We may be unable to refinance our indebtedness or to obtain additional financing for working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions or general corporate purposes;
•We have significant exposure to fluctuations in interest rates because borrowings under our senior secured credit facilities bear interest at variable rates;
•Our leverage may be greater than that of some of our competitors, which may put us at a competitive disadvantage and reduce our flexibility in responding to current and changing industry and financial market conditions;
•We may be more vulnerable to an economic downturn or recession and adverse developments in our business;
•We may be unable to comply with financial and other covenants in our debt agreements, which could result in an event of default that, if not cured or waived, may result in acceleration of certain of our debt and would have an adverse effect on our business and prospects and could force us into bankruptcy or liquidation; and
•Changes by any rating agency to our outlook or credit rating could negatively affect the value of our debt and/or our common stock, adversely affect our access to debt markets and increase the interest we pay on outstanding or future debt.
There can be no assurance that we will be able to manage any of these risks successfully. In addition, we conduct a significant portion of our operations through our subsidiaries. Accordingly, repayment of our indebtedness will be dependent in part on the generation of cash flow by our subsidiaries and their respective abilities to make such cash available to us by dividend, debt repayment or otherwise, which may not always be possible. If we do not receive distributions from our subsidiaries, we may be unable to make the required principal and interest payments on our indebtedness.
Our Amended Credit Agreement imposes operating and financial restrictions on us.
Our Amended Credit Agreement contains covenants that limit our ability and the ability of our restricted subsidiaries to:
•Incur additional debt;
•Create liens on certain assets to secure debt;
•Enter into certain sale and leaseback transactions;
•Pay dividends on or make other distributions in respect of our capital stock or make other restricted payments; and
•Consolidate, merge, sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets.
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These covenants may adversely affect our ability to finance our operations, meet or otherwise address our capital needs, pursue business opportunities, react to market conditions or may otherwise restrict activities or business plans. A breach of any of these covenants could result in a default. If a default occurs, the relevant lenders could declare the indebtedness, together with accrued interest and other fees, to be immediately due and payable and, to the extent such indebtedness is secured, proceed against any collateral securing that indebtedness.
The failure of financial institutions or transactional counterparties could adversely affect our current and projected business operations and our financial condition and result of operations.
We regularly maintain cash balances with other financial institutions in excess of the FDIC insurance limit. A failure of a depository institution to return deposits could result in a loss or impact access to our invested cash or cash equivalents and could adversely impact our operating liquidity and financial performance.
Additionally, future adverse developments with respect to specific financial institutions or the broader financial services industry may lead to market-wide liquidity shortages, impair the ability of companies to access near-term working capital needs, and create additional market and economic uncertainty. Our general business strategy, including our ability to access existing debt under the terms of our Amended Credit Agreement may be adversely affected by any such economic downturn, liquidity shortages, volatile business environment or continued unpredictable and unstable market conditions. If the current equity and credit markets deteriorate, or if adverse developments are experienced by financial institutions, it may cause short-term liquidity risk and also make any necessary debt or equity financing more difficult, more costly, more onerous with respect to financial and operating covenants and more dilutive. Failure to secure any necessary financing in a timely manner and on favorable terms could have a material adverse effect on our operations, growth strategy, financial performance and stock price and could require us to alter our operating plans.
We rely on a variety of funding sources to support our business model. If our existing funding arrangements are not renewed or replaced or our existing funding sources are unwilling or unable to provide funding to us on terms acceptable to us, or at all, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
To support the origination of loans, earned wage advances and other receivables on our platform and the growth of our business, we must maintain a variety of funding arrangements. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to extend or replace our existing funding arrangements at maturity on reasonable terms or at all. For example, disruptions in the credit markets or other factors, such as the high inflation and interest rate environment in calendar years 2024, 2025, and to date in 2026, could adversely affect the availability, diversity, cost and terms of our funding arrangements. In addition, our funding sources may reassess their exposure to our industry or our business, including as a result of any significant underperformance of the consumer receivables facilitated through our platform or regulatory developments, in particular regarding earned wage access products, that impose significant requirements on, or increase potential risks and liabilities related to, the consumer receivables facilitated through our platform, and fail to renew or extend facilities or impose higher costs to access our funding. If our existing funding arrangements are not renewed or replaced or our existing funding sources are unwilling or unable to provide funding on terms acceptable to us, or at all, we would need to secure additional sources of funding or reduce our operations significantly, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
GENERAL RISKS
Adverse macroeconomic conditions have adversely affected and may continue to adversely affect the consumer finance industry and our MoneyLion business.
We operate globally and as a result our business and revenues are impacted by global macroeconomic conditions. Although inflation has moderated from recent peak levels in certain markets, it remains elevated in many regions, and interest rates in the United States and other jurisdictions remain at historically elevated levels compared to the prior decade. Central banks may maintain higher interest rates for an extended period or adjust monetary policy in response to evolving economic conditions. Prolonged periods of elevated interest rates, volatility in financial markets, tightening credit conditions, uncertainty regarding the path of monetary policy, or renewed inflationary pressures have increased, and may continue to increase, our cost of capital and financing expenses. For example, elevated interest rates previously resulted in an increase in our cost of debt. These factors, together with geopolitical instability, armed conflicts, trade tensions, fluctuating tariff rates and policies, and risks of recession or economic slowdown, have had and may continue to have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
In addition, adverse macroeconomic conditions may cause our MoneyLion product partners to reduce or delay their marketing and advertising expenditures on our platform, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Uncertainty and negative trends in general economic conditions, including significant tightening of credit markets, historically have created a difficult operating environment for the consumer finance industry. The timing and extent of an economic downturn may also require us to change, postpone or cancel our strategic initiatives or growth plans to pursue shorter-term sustainability. The longer and more severe an economic downturn, the greater the potential adverse impact on us, which could be material.
Many new customers on our MoneyLion platform have limited or no credit history and limited financial resources. Accordingly, such customers have historically been, and may in the future become, disproportionately affected by adverse macroeconomic conditions. Sustained high levels of unemployment or financial stress due to the global macroeconomic conditions, including elevated interest rates and inflation, may increase delinquencies, defaults, non-payments, foreclosures and bankruptcies with respect to our loans and earned wage access products and may reduce customer engagement with our investment and other
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financial services. If we are unable to adjust our operations effectively in response to rising unemployment or deteriorating credit conditions, or if we cannot accurately assess borrower creditworthiness or ability to pay for loans, earned wage advances or other MoneyLion products and services, our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be adversely affected.
Fluctuations in our quarterly financial results have affected the trading price of our stock in the past and could affect the trading price of our stock in the future.
Our quarterly financial results have fluctuated in the past and are likely to vary in the future due to a number of factors, many of which are outside of our control. If our quarterly financial results or our predictions of future financial results fail to meet our expectations or the expectations of securities analysts and investors, the trading price of our outstanding securities could be negatively affected. Volatility in our quarterly financial results may make it more difficult for us to raise capital in the future or pursue acquisitions.
Factors associated with our industry, the operation of our business, and the markets for our solutions may cause our quarterly financial results to fluctuate, including but not limited to:
•Fluctuations in demand for our solutions;
•Disruptions in our business operations or target markets caused by, among other things, terrorism or other intentional acts, outbreaks of disease, or earthquakes, floods or other natural disasters;
•Entry of new competition into our markets;
•Technological changes in our markets;
•Our ability to achieve targeted operating income and margins and revenues;
•Competitive pricing pressure or free offerings that compete with one or more of our solutions;
•Our ability to timely complete the release of new or enhanced versions of our solutions;
•The amount and timing of commencement and termination of major marketing campaigns;
•The number, severity and timing of threat outbreaks and cyber security incidents;
•Loss of customers or strategic partners or the inability to acquire new customers or cross-sell our solutions;
•Changes in the mix or type of solutions and subscriptions sold and changes in consumer retention rates;
•The rate of adoption of new technologies and new releases of operating systems, and new business processes;
•Consumer confidence and spending changes;
•The outcome or impact of litigation, claims, disputes, regulatory inquiries or investigations;
•The impact of acquisitions (and our ability to achieve expected synergies or attendant cost savings), divestitures, restructurings, share repurchase, financings, debt repayments, equity investments and other investment activities;
•Changes in U.S. and worldwide economic conditions, such as economic recessions, the impact of inflation, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates including the weakening of foreign currencies relative to USD, which has and may in the future negatively affect our revenue expressed in USD, changes in interest rates, geopolitical conflicts and other global macroeconomic factors on our operations and financial performance;
•The publication of unfavorable or inaccurate research reports about our business by cybersecurity industry analysts;
•The success of our sustainability initiatives;
•Changes in tax laws, rules and regulations;
•Changes in tax rates, benefits and expenses; and
•Changes in consumer protection laws and regulations.
Any of the foregoing factors could cause the trading price of our outstanding securities to fluctuate significantly.
We may be required to issue shares under our contingent value rights agreement.
In connection with the MoneyLion acquisition, we entered into a Contingent Value Rights Agreement dated April 17, 2025 (the “CVR Agreement”) governing the terms of the CVRs. Each CVR entitles its holder to receive $23.00 in shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Gen Digital (CVR Consideration) if, on any date prior to the second anniversary of the closing, (i) the Average VWAP (as defined in the CVR Agreement) of our common stock for 30 consecutive trading days is equal to or greater than $37.50 (subject to certain adjustments) or (ii) we undergo a change of control (each, a “CVR Requirement” and collectively the “CVR Requirements”). To the extent neither of the CVR Requirements are met, the CVR holders would not be entitled to receive the CVR Consideration. To the extent we are required to issue shares to the CVR holders under the CVR Agreement, our stockholders may be diluted. For additional information on our obligations under the CVR Agreement, refer to Exhibit [10.42] to this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a copy of the CVR Agreement.
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RISKS RELATED TO TAXES
Changes to our effective tax rate, including through the adoption of new tax legislation or exposure to additional income tax liabilities, could increase our income tax expense and reduce (increase) our net income (loss), cash flows and working capital. In addition, audits by tax authorities could result in additional tax payments for prior periods.
We are a multinational company dual headquartered in the U.S. and the Czech Republic, with our principal executive offices in Tempe, Arizona. As such, we are subject to tax in multiple U.S. and international tax jurisdictions. Our effective tax rate could be adversely affected by several factors, many of which are outside of our control, including:
•Changes to the U.S. federal income tax laws, including forthcoming regulations implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and other changes to the way that our U.S. tax liability is calculated. Such changes could result in significant retroactive adjustments adding cash tax payments/liabilities if adopted;
•Changes to other tax laws, regulations, and interpretations thereof in multiple jurisdictions in which we operate. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) has proposed certain tax reforms, which, among other things, (1) shift taxing rights to the jurisdiction of the consumer (“Pillar One”) and (2) establish a global minimum tax rate of 15% for multinational companies (“Pillar Two”). Ireland, Czech Republic and certain jurisdictions in which we operate have enacted legislation to implement Pillar Two and other countries are actively considering changes to their tax laws to adopt certain parts of the OECD’s proposals. Additionally, on June 28, 2025, the G7 released a joint statement that it had reached an understanding with the United States for a side-by-side system based on certain accepted principles, including that U.S.-parented groups would be exempt from certain provisions of Pillar Two. Furthermore, several countries have proposed or adopted digital services taxes on revenue earned by multinational companies from the provision of certain digital services, regardless of physical presence;
•Changes in the relative proportions of revenues and income before taxes in the various jurisdictions in which we operate that have differing statutory tax rates;
•Changes in the valuation of deferred tax assets and liabilities and the discovery of new information in the course of our tax return preparation process;
•The ultimate determination of our taxes owed in any of these jurisdictions is for an amount in excess of the tax provision we have recorded or reserved for;
•The tax effects of, and tax planning and changes in tax rates related to significant infrequently occurring events (including acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings) that may cause fluctuations between reporting periods;
•Tax assessments, or any related tax interest or penalties, that could significantly affect our income tax expense for the period in which the settlements take place; and
•Taxes arising in connection with changes in our workforce, corporate and legal entity structure or operations as they relate to tax incentives and tax rates.
We continue to assess the overall impact of these potential changes as developments occur and will reflect the impact of such changes in future financial statements as appropriate.
From time to time, we receive notices that a tax authority in a particular jurisdiction believes that we owe a greater amount of tax than we have reported to such authority and we are consequently subject to tax audits. These audits can involve complex issues, which may require an extended period of time to resolve and can be highly judgmental. Additionally, our ability to recognize the financial statement benefit of tax refund claims is subject to change based on a number of factors, including but not limited to, changes in facts and circumstances, changes in tax laws, correspondence with tax authorities, and the results of tax audits and related proceedings, which may take several years or more to resolve. We ultimately sometimes have to engage in litigation to achieve the results reflected in our tax estimates, and such litigation can be time consuming and expensive. If the ultimate determination of our taxes owed in any of these jurisdictions is for an amount in excess of the tax provision we have recorded or reserved for, our operating results, cash flows, and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.
Our corporate and legal entity structure and intercompany arrangements are subject to the tax laws of various jurisdictions, and we could be obligated to pay additional taxes, which would harm our results of operations.
We generally conduct our international operations through wholly-owned subsidiaries and are or may be required to report our taxable income in various jurisdictions worldwide based upon our business operations in those jurisdictions. Our intercompany relationships are subject to complex transfer pricing regulations administered by taxing authorities in various jurisdictions. The amount of taxes we pay in different jurisdictions may depend on a variety of factors including the application of the tax laws of those various jurisdictions (including the U.S.) to our international business activities, changes in tax rates, new or revised tax laws or interpretations of existing tax laws and policies, and our ability to operate our business in a manner consistent with our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements. The relevant taxing authorities have in the past and may in the future disagree with our determinations as to the income and expenses attributable to specific jurisdictions. If such a disagreement were to occur, and our position was not sustained, we could be required to pay additional taxes, interest and penalties, which could result in one-time tax charges, higher effective tax rates, reduced cash flows and lower overall profitability of our operations.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
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Item 1C. Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity risk management and strategy
Our information security management system is based upon industry frameworks including but not limited to ISO 27001 and NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Our Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) leads our cybersecurity program, which includes the implementation of controls designed to align with these industry frameworks and applicable statutes and regulations. Our CISO has over 30 years of prior work experience in various roles involving managing information security programs, developing cybersecurity strategy, implementing effective information and cybersecurity initiatives and has been the Head of IT Audit, CISO and CIO at three other companies prior to Gen Digital. He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems. We have implemented security monitoring capabilities designed to alert us to suspicious activity and developed an incident response program that includes an annual table top exercise and is designed to restore business operations quickly. In addition, employees participate in mandatory annual training and receive communications regarding the cybersecurity environment to increase awareness throughout the company. We also implemented an enhanced annual training program for specific specialized employee populations, including secure coding training.
Governance
We describe whether and how risks from identified cybersecurity threats, including as a result of any previous cybersecurity incidents, have materially affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect us, including our business strategy, results of operations, or financial condition, under the heading “Our solutions, systems, websites and the data on these sources have been in the past and may continue to be subject to cybersecurity events that could materially harm our reputation and future sales.” included as part of ”Risk Factors” in Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which disclosures are incorporated by reference herein.
Item 2. Properties
Our principal executive offices occupy approximately 75,051 square feet in Tempe, Arizona under a lease that expires in 2032. We also operate offices and data centers throughout the United States and other countries worldwide.
We believe that our existing facilities are sufficient for our current needs. In the future, we may need to add new facilities and expand our existing facilities as we add employees and evolve our business. We believe that suitable additional or substitute space will be available on commercially reasonable terms to meet our future needs.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
Information with respect to this Item may be found under the heading “Litigation contingencies” in Note 18 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which information is incorporated into this Item 3 by reference.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
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PART II
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Stock symbol and stockholders of record
Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “GEN”. As of April 3, 2026, there were 2,284 stockholders of record. A substantially greater number of holders of our common stock are "street name" or beneficial holders, whose shares of record are held by banks, brokers and other financial institutions.
Stock performance graph
The graph below compares the cumulative total stockholder return on our common stock with the cumulative total return on the S&P 500 Composite Index and the S&P Information Technology Index for the five fiscal years ended April 3, 2026 (assuming the initial investment of $100 in our common stock and in each of the other indices on the last day of trading for fiscal 2021 and the reinvestment of all dividends). The comparisons in the graph below are based on historical data and are not indicative of, nor intended to forecast the possible future performance of our common stock.
COMPARISON OF FIVE-YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN
Among Gen Digital Inc., the S&P 500 Index
and the S&P Information Technology Index
This performance graph shall not be deemed “soliciting material” or to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liabilities under that Section, and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filings of Gen Digital under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
Repurchases of our equity securities
Stock repurchases during the three months ended April 3, 2026 were as follows:
| (In millions, except per share data) | Total Number of Shares Purchased (1) | Average Price Paid per Share | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Program | Maximum Dollar Value of Shares That May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (2) | |||||||||||||||||||
| January 3, 2026 to January 30, 2026 | — | $ | — | — | $ | 2,294 | |||||||||||||||||
| January 31, 2026 to February 27, 2026 | 9 | $ | 23.31 | 9 | $ | 2,094 | |||||||||||||||||
| February 28, 2026 to April 3, 2026 | — | $ | — | — | $ | 2,094 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total number of shares repurchased | 9 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||
(1) The number of shares repurchased is reported on trade date.
(2) Under our stock repurchase programs, shares may be repurchased on the open market and through accelerated stock repurchase transactions. As of April 3, 2026, we had $2,094 million remaining authorized to be completed in future periods with no expiration date.
Item 6. [Reserved]
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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Please read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our Consolidated Financial Statements and related Notes thereto included under Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
OVERVIEW
Gen Digital Inc. is a global leader in consumer Cyber Safety and Trust-Based Solutions, empowering people around the world to live safer digital lives while building confidence and control over their financial futures. Through its trusted brands, including Norton, Avast, LifeLock and MoneyLion, Gen offers cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to consumers worldwide.
Our Cyber Safety Platform includes our security, comprehensive suites, and privacy products, which deliver technology solutions and superior threat protection to help people navigate the digital world securely, privately and with confidence. Our Trust-Based Solutions includes our identity protection, restoration support services, digital reputation, and secure financial wellness, including our first-party MoneyLion products and our Engine marketplace offerings.
Fiscal calendar
We have a 52/53-week fiscal year ending on the Friday closest to March 31. Fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024 in this report refers to fiscal years ended April 3, 2026, March 28, 2025 and March 29, 2024, respectively. Fiscal 2026 consisted of 53 weeks, whereas fiscal years 2025 and 2024 each consisted of 52 weeks.
Financial summary
The following table provides our key financial metrics for fiscal 2026 compared with fiscal 2025:
| Fiscal Year | |||||||||||
| (In millions, except for per share amounts) | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||
| Net revenues | $ | 5,000 | $ | 3,935 | |||||||
| Operating income (loss) | $ | 2,120 | $ | 1,610 | |||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | 973 | $ | 643 | |||||||
| Net income (loss) per share - diluted | $ | 1.57 | $ | 1.03 | |||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities | $ | 1,545 | $ | 1,221 | |||||||
| As of | |||||||||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | $ | 411 | $ | 1,006 | |||||||
•Net revenues increased $1,065 million, primarily due to higher sales in both our Cyber Safety Platform products and Trust-Based Solutions, including an increase of $823 million due to the acquisition of MoneyLion, and an increase of $87 million due to the favorable impact from the additional week in the first quarter of fiscal 2026.
•Operating income (loss) increased $510 million, primarily due to increased net revenues described above and decreased legal costs related to ongoing litigation. This is partially offset by an increase in marketing costs, payment processing fees, amortization of intangible assets and compensation related expenses.
•Net income (loss) increased $330 million and net income per share increased $0.54, primarily due to increased operating income discussed above partially offset by an increase in income tax expense.
•Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash decreased by $595 million compared to March 28, 2025, primarily due to the cash consideration paid for our fiscal 2026 acquisitions including MoneyLion, principal payments of our Term A and B Facilities, repayment of our Term A Facility and share repurchases. This is partially offset by proceeds from the issuance of our Incremental Term Loan B and Extended Term Loan A and cash generated from operating activities during fiscal 2026.
•During fiscal 2026, we returned $1,091 million of capital back to shareholders and bondholders. This was achieved through the repurchase of 25 million shares of our common stock, totaling $634 million. Additionally, we paid out a total of $312 million in quarterly dividends and carried out $145 million in net debt pay downs.
GLOBAL MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS
As a global company, our results of operations and cash flows may be influenced by global macroeconomic conditions and their impact on customer behavior. Global macroeconomic conditions include, but are not limited to, increased tariffs and an uncertain global trade environment, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, the impact of interest rate fluctuations, elevated inflation, ongoing and new geopolitical conflicts, the impacts of current and future trade regulations, instability in the global banking sector, slow growth and recession risks, and changes in legislation or regulations and actions by regulators, including changes in enforcement and administrative policies, any of which may be difficult to predict and may persist for an extended period.
Despite challenging global macroeconomic conditions and although we recognize that inflation and broader economic uncertainty can influence customer behavior, we are confident in the long-term overall health of our business, the strength of our
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product offerings and our ability to continue to execute on our strategy, including bringing award-winning products and services in cybersecurity and offering comprehensive financial wellness to our customers.
We continue to monitor the direct and indirect impacts of these global macroeconomic or other geopolitical factors. If the economic uncertainty continues, we may experience negative impacts on customer renewals, customer collections, sales and marketing efforts, customer deployments, product development, or other financial metrics. Additional broader implications of these events on our business, results of operations, and overall financial position still remain uncertain and could result in further adverse impacts to our reported results. For further discussion of the potential impacts of global macroeconomic conditions on our business, please see “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A and Part II, Item 7A below.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES
The preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. requires us to make estimates, including judgments and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. We have based our estimates, judgments and assumptions on historical experience and on various other factors we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. We evaluate our estimates, judgments and assumptions on a regular basis and make changes accordingly. Management believes that the accounting estimates employed and the resulting amounts are reasonable; however, actual results may differ from these estimates. Making estimates, judgments and assumptions about future events is inherently unpredictable and is subject to significant uncertainties, some of which are beyond our control. Should any of these estimates, judgments or assumptions change or prove to have been incorrect, it could have a material impact on our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
Management believes the following significant accounting policies reflect the critical estimates used in the preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements. A summary of our significant accounting policies is included in Note 1, and a description of recently adopted accounting pronouncements and our expectation of the impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements and disclosures are included in Note 2 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Business combinations
We allocate the purchase price of acquired businesses to the tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values on the acquisition date. Any residual purchase price is recorded as goodwill. The allocation of purchase price requires management to make significant estimates and assumptions in determining the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed especially with respect to intangible assets.
Critical estimates in valuing intangible assets include, but are not limited to, future expected cash flows from customer relationships, developed technology, trade names and other intangibles, and discount rates. Management estimates of fair value are based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable but which are inherently uncertain and unpredictable. Third-party valuation specialists are utilized for certain estimates. Unanticipated events and circumstances may occur which may affect the accuracy or validity of such assumptions, estimates or actual results.
Income taxes
We are subject to tax in multiple U.S. and foreign tax jurisdictions. We are required to estimate the current tax exposure as well as assess the temporary differences between the accounting and tax treatment of assets and liabilities, including items such as accruals and allowances not currently deductible for tax purposes. We apply judgment in the recognition and measurement of current and deferred income taxes which includes the following critical accounting estimates.
We use a two-step process to recognize liabilities for unrecognized tax benefits. The first step is to evaluate the tax position for recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any. There is judgment and complexity involved in assessing if the tax position is more likely than not. If we determine that the tax position will more likely than not be sustained on audit, the second step requires us to estimate and measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more than 50% likely to be realized upon ultimate settlement. It is inherently difficult and subjective to estimate such amounts, as this requires us to determine the probability of various outcomes. We re-evaluate these unrecognized tax benefits on a quarterly basis. This evaluation is based on factors including, but not limited to, changes in facts or circumstances, changes in tax law, effectively settled issues under audit and new audit activity. Such a change in recognition or measurement would result in the recognition of a tax benefit or an additional charge to the tax provision in the period.
Loss contingencies
We are subject to contingencies that expose us to losses, including, but not limited to, regulatory proceedings, claims, mediations, arbitration and litigation, arising out of the ordinary course of business. An estimated loss from such contingencies is recognized as a charge to income if it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. Judgment is required in both the determination of probability and the determination as to whether a loss is reasonably estimable. We review the status of each significant matter quarterly, and we may revise our estimates. Until the final resolution of such matters, there may be an exposure to loss in excess of the amount recorded, and such amounts could be material. Should any of our estimates and assumptions change or prove to have been incorrect, it could have a material impact on our Consolidated Financial Statements for that reporting period.
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Recently adopted authoritative guidance
For a discussion of recently adopted authoritative guidance and their potential effects refer to Note 2 of our Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Recently issued authoritative guidance not yet adopted
ASU 2024-03 and ASU 2025-01, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income (Subtopic 220-40): Expense Disaggregation Disclosures. In November 2024, the FASB issued new guidance requiring that public business entities disclose additional information about specific expense categories in the notes to financial statements at interim and annual reporting periods. This is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. We are currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this guidance on our Consolidated Financial Statements and disclosures.
ASU 2025-06, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software. In September 2025, the FASB issued new guidance to improve the operability of the guidance by removing all references to software development project stages so that the guidance is neutral to different software development methods, including methods that entities may use to develop software in the future. This is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. We are currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this guidance on our Consolidated Financial Statements and disclosures.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
We have elected to omit discussion on the earliest of the three years presented in the Consolidated Financial Statements of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Refer to Part II, Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 28, 2025 for year-over-year comparisons of the results of operation between fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2024 as well as discussion of fiscal 2024 performance metrics and cash flow activity, all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The following table sets forth our Consolidated Statements of Operations data as a percentage of net revenues for the periods indicated:
| Fiscal Year | |||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | ||||||||||
| Net revenues | 100 | % | 100 | % | |||||||
| Cost of revenues | 22 | 20 | |||||||||
| Gross profit | 78 | 80 | |||||||||
| Operating expenses: | |||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 25 | 19 | |||||||||
| Research and development | 8 | 8 | |||||||||
| General and administrative | (2) | 7 | |||||||||
| Amortization of intangible assets | 4 | 4 | |||||||||
| Restructuring and other costs | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
Impairment of intangible assets | — | 0 | |||||||||
| Total operating expenses | 36 | 39 | |||||||||
| Operating income (loss) | 42 | 41 | |||||||||
| Interest expense | (11) | (15) | |||||||||
| Other income (expense), net | (1) | 0 | |||||||||
| Income (loss) before income taxes | 30 | 26 | |||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | 11 | 10 | |||||||||
| Net income (loss) | 19 | % | 16 | % | |||||||
Note: The percentages may not add due to rounding.
Net revenues
| Fiscal Year | % Change | ||||||||||||||||
| (In millions, except for percentages) | 2026 | 2025 | 2026 vs. 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Net revenues | $ | 5,000 | $ | 3,935 | 27 | % | |||||||||||
Fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025
Net revenues increased $1,065 million, due to a $163 million increase in sales of our Cyber Safety Platform products and a $902 million increase in sales of our Trust-Based Solutions, including a $823 million increase in Trust-Based Solutions due to the acquisition of MoneyLion. Net revenues also increased $87 million due to the favorable impact from the additional week in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, impacting both segment financials. Specifically, the additional week contributed $56 million to Cyber Safety Platform and $31 million to Trust-Based Solutions.
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Performance Metrics
We regularly monitor a number of metrics in order to measure our current performance and estimate our future performance. We believe these key operating metrics are useful to investors because management uses these metrics to assess the growth of our business and the effectiveness of our marketing and operational strategies. Our metrics may be calculated in a manner different than similar metrics used by other companies.
The following table summarizes supplemental key performance metrics:
Fiscal Year | |||||||||||
(In millions) | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||
| Cyber Safety Platform | $ | 3,339 | $ | 3,176 | |||||||
| Trust-Based Solutions | 1,661 | 759 | |||||||||
Total net revenues | $ | 5,000 | $ | 3,935 | |||||||
Direct revenues | $ | 4,137 | $ | 3,463 | |||||||
Partner revenues | 863 | 472 | |||||||||
Total net revenues | $ | 5,000 | $ | 3,935 | |||||||
Total bookings | $ | 5,107 | $ | 3,988 | |||||||
As of | |||||||||||
(In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Total paid customers | 79 | 68 | |||||||||
Revenue from Cyber Safety Platform increased $163 million during fiscal 2026 due to growth across our cyber safety membership offerings and the additional week in the first quarter of fiscal 2026. Revenue from Trust-Based Solutions increased $902 million during fiscal 2026 primarily due to the acquisition of MoneyLion, continued growth in our identity point solutions and the additional week in the first quarter of fiscal 2026.
Direct revenue reflects subscriptions sold directly through e-commerce or mobile channels, and revenue generated from financial transactions directly made through Gen properties or marketplaces.
Partner revenue reflects partner-sourced and channel revenue via retailers, employee benefits, telcos, publishers, and strategic partnerships, including revenue generated from product usage or products sold through our financial marketplace.
Total bookings are defined as customer orders received that are expected to generate net revenues in the future. We present the operational metric of bookings because it reflects customers’ demand for our products and services and to assist readers in analyzing our performance in future periods.
We define paid customers as active users of our products and solutions, including subscribers with an active paid subscription to our products at the end of the reported period. Paid customers also includes product users with a unique account and at least one revenue-generating transaction in the relevant active period of each respective product category, whether through our first-party personal finance products, transacting through our financial marketplaces, or generating revenue through product usage. We exclude users on free trials and those who have not actively transacted in the relevant period of each respective product category.
In order to properly reflect our customer cohorts that contribute to revenue given the dynamic nature of consumers and our product portfolio, our methodology is subject to change from time to time. The methodologies used to measure these metrics require judgment and we regularly review our metrics to improve their accuracy. However, our ability to recalculate our historical metrics may be impacted by data limitations or other factors that require us to apply different methodologies for such adjustments. We generally do not intend to update previously disclosed metrics for any such inaccuracies or adjustments that are deemed not material.
Net revenues by geographical region
Percentage of revenue by geographical region as presented below is based on the billing location of the customers.
Fiscal Year | |||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | ||||||||||
| Americas | 71 | % | 66 | % | |||||||
| EMEA | 21 | % | 24 | % | |||||||
| APJ | 8 | % | 10 | % | |||||||
The Americas include U.S., Canada, and Latin America; EMEA includes Europe, Middle East, and Africa; APJ includes Asia Pacific and Japan.
Percentage of revenue in Americas increased primarily due to our acquisition of MoneyLion during fiscal 2026 as compared to fiscal 2025.
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Cost of revenues
| Fiscal Year | % Change | ||||||||||||||||
| (In millions, except for percentages) | 2026 | 2025 | 2026 vs. 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenues | $ | 1,077 | $ | 776 | 39 | % | |||||||||||
Fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025
Cost of revenues, including the impact of the additional week in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, increased $301 million, primarily due to a $197 million increase in partner revenue share mainly in Trust-Based Solutions, a $58 million increase in payment processing fees and a $32 million increase in amortization of intangible assets.
Operating expenses
| Fiscal Year | % Change | ||||||||||||||||
| (In millions, except for percentages) | 2026 | 2025 | 2026 vs. 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | $ | 1,228 | $ | 745 | 65 | % | |||||||||||
| Research and development | 409 | 329 | 24 | % | |||||||||||||
| General and administrative | (87) | 291 | (130) | % | |||||||||||||
| Amortization of intangible assets | 218 | 174 | 25 | % | |||||||||||||
| Restructuring and other costs | 35 | 7 | 400 | % | |||||||||||||
Impairment of intangible assets | — | 3 | (100) | % | |||||||||||||
Total operating expenses | $ | 1,803 | $ | 1,549 | 16 | % | |||||||||||
Our operating expenses increased in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025 primarily due to our acquisition of MoneyLion, the impact of the additional week in the first quarter of fiscal 2026. and compensation related expenses, offset by decrease in legal accruals.
Fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025
Sales and marketing expense, including the impact of the additional week in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, increased $483 million, primarily due to a $205 million in loss on sale of Instacash Advances, a $142 million increase in marketing expenses, a $67 million increase in headcount costs and a $46 million increase in stock-based compensation expense.
Research and development expense, including the impact of the additional week in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, increased $80 million, primarily due to a $31 million increase in headcount costs, a $19 million increase in equipment expenses, a $17 million increase in stock-based compensation expense and an $8 million increase in occupancy and IT costs.
General and administrative expense decreased $378 million, primarily due to a $354 million litigation accrual reversal related to our litigation with the Trustees of the University of Columbia in the City of New York (Columbia). Refer to Note 18 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information on our litigation with Columbia.
Amortization of intangible assets increased $44 million, primarily due to our acquisition of MoneyLion.
Restructuring and other costs increased $28 million, primarily due to an increase in severance and termination benefits in connection with the April 2025 Plan. See Note 12 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for details of the fiscal 2026 restructuring activities.
Non-operating income (expense), net
| Fiscal Year | $ Change | ||||||||||||||||
| (In millions) | 2026 | 2025 | 2026 vs. 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Interest expense | $ | (569) | $ | (578) | $ | 9 | |||||||||||
| Interest income | 25 | 28 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| Foreign exchange gain (loss) | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Loss on early extinguishment of debt | (9) | — | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| Change in fair value and impairment of non-marketable equity investments | (79) | (30) | (49) | ||||||||||||||
| Gain on sale of nonfinancial assets | 15 | — | 15 | ||||||||||||||
| Gain (loss) on sale of properties | (1) | — | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| Other | 5 | (3) | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Non-operating income (expense), net | $ | (609) | $ | (581) | $ | (28) | |||||||||||
Fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025
Non-operating income (expense), net, increased $28 million, primarily due to a $49 million increase in change in fair value and impairment of our non-marketable equity investments. See Note 8 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
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included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for details of the fiscal 2026 activities related to our non-marketable equity investments. This is partially offset by a $15 million gain on sale of nonfinancial assets in the third quarter of fiscal 2026.
Provision for income taxes
| Fiscal Year | |||||||||||
| (In millions, except for percentages) | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||
Income (loss) before income taxes | $ | 1,511 | $ | 1,029 | |||||||
Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | 538 | $ | 386 | |||||||
Effective tax rate | 36 | % | 38 | % | |||||||
Fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal 2025
Our effective tax rate decreased primarily due to a lower impact from U.S. taxation of foreign earnings, partially offset by increased impacts from changes in unrecognized tax benefits and related interest and penalties in fiscal 2026. See Note 13 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for information about our unrecognized tax benefits.
On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Act) was enacted into law in the United States. The Act includes various provisions that are applicable to us beginning in fiscal 2026. These provisions include an allowance to accelerate tax deductions of certain capital expenditures, research & experimentation expenditures, and an increase to the annual limitation of tax-deductible interest expenses. The impacts of the Act are included in our operating results for fiscal 2026. The Act has not had, and is not expected to have, a material impact on our effective tax rate.
LIQUIDITY, CAPITAL RESOURCES AND CASH REQUIREMENTS
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We have historically relied on cash generated from operations, borrowings under credit facilities, issuances of debt and proceeds from divestitures for our liquidity needs.
Our capital allocation strategy is to balance driving stockholder returns, managing financial risk and preserving our flexibility to pursue strategic options, including acquisitions and mergers. Historically, this has included a quarterly cash dividend, the repayment of debt and the repurchase of shares of our common stock.
Based on past performance and current expectations, we believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents, together with cash generated from operations, amounts available under our Revolving Facility and our future refinancing plans related to our upcoming maturities, will be sufficient to meet our working capital needs, support on-going business activities and finance the expected synergy costs related to the acquisition of MoneyLion through at least the next 12 months and to meet our known long-term contractual obligations. We are currently not aware of any trends or demands, commitments, events or uncertainties that will result in or that are reasonably likely to result in our liquidity increasing or decreasing in any material way that will impact our capital needs during or beyond the next 12 months. However, our future liquidity and capital requirements may vary materially from those as of April 3, 2026 depending on several factors, including, but not limited to, economic conditions; political climate; the expansion of sales and marketing activities; the costs to acquire or invest in businesses; outcome of income tax audits with relevant tax authorities; resolution of legal proceedings, including, but not limited to, regulatory proceedings, claims, mediations, arbitrations and litigation; and the risks and uncertainties discussed in “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A.
Cash flows
The following table summarizes our cash flow activities in fiscal 2026 and 2025:
| Fiscal Year | |||||||||||
| (In millions) | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in): | |||||||||||
| Operating activities | $ | 1,545 | $ | 1,221 | |||||||
| Investing activities | $ | (1,011) | $ | (100) | |||||||
| Financing activities | $ | (1,133) | $ | (970) | |||||||
Increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | $ | (595) | $ | 160 | |||||||
See Note 7 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for our supplemental cash flow information.
Cash from operating activities
Net cash provided by operating activities of $1,545 million in fiscal 2026 was primarily comprised of net income adjusted for the net effect of non-cash items. Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions, include decreases in other liabilities, Instacash Advances held for sale, income taxes payable, accounts receivable, net and accounts payable offset by an increase in contract liabilities.
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Cash from investing activities
Net cash used in investing activities of $1,011 million in fiscal 2026 was primarily related to the cash consideration paid for our fiscal 2026 acquisitions including MoneyLion.
Cash from financing activities
Net cash used in financing activities of $1,133 million in fiscal 2026 was primarily due to repayment of our Term A Facility, principal payments of our Term A and B Facilities, repurchases of common stock under our repurchase program and quarterly dividend payments. This was partially offset by proceeds from the issuance of our Incremental Term Loan B of $750 million and Extended Term Loan A of $2,741 million.
Cash and cash equivalents
As of April 3, 2026, we had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $402 million, excluding restricted cash, of which $289 million was held by our foreign subsidiaries. Our cash and cash equivalents are managed with the objective to preserve principal, maintain liquidity and generate investment returns. The participation exemption system under current U.S. federal tax regulations generally allows us to make distributions of non-U.S. earnings to the U.S. without incurring additional U.S. federal tax; however, these distributions may be subject to applicable state or non-U.S. taxes.
Debt
We have an undrawn revolving credit facility of $1,495 million, net of our letters of credit, which expires in March 2031.
Stock repurchases
During the fiscal 2026 and 2025, we executed repurchases of 25 million and 11 million of our common stock under our existing stock repurchase program for an aggregate amount of $634 million and $272 million, respectively.
Material Cash Requirements
Our principal cash requirements are primarily to meet our working capital needs, support on-going business activities, including payment of taxes and cash dividends, payment of contractual obligations, funding capital expenditures, servicing existing debt, repurchasing shares of our common stock and investing in business acquisitions and mergers.
Debt instruments
As of April 3, 2026, our total outstanding principal amount of indebtedness is summarized as follows. See Note 10 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information on our debt.
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | ||||
| Term Loans | $ | 5,825 | |||
| Senior Notes | 2,450 | ||||
| Total debt | $ | 8,275 | |||
The Amended Credit Agreement contains customary representations and warranties and affirmative and negative covenants, including compliance with specified financial ratios, and includes a springing maturity provision applicable solely to the Extended Term A Facility and Revolving Facility pursuant to which the obligations under such facilities may become due and payable prior to the stated maturity dates.
As of April 3, 2026, we were in compliance with all debt covenants. See Note 10 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information regarding our debt, including applicable financial ratios, debt covenant compliance and the springing maturity provision applicable to the Extended Term A Facility and Revolving Facility.
Dividends
On May 7, 2026, we announced a cash dividend of $0.125 per share of common stock to be paid in June 2026. Any future dividends and dividend equivalents will be subject to the approval from our Board of Directors.
Stock repurchase program
Under our stock repurchase program, we may purchase shares of our outstanding common stock on the open market (including through trading plans intended to qualify under Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act) and through accelerated stock repurchase transactions. As of April 3, 2026, the remaining balance of our stock repurchase authorization is $2,094 million and does not have an expiration date. The timing and actual number of shares repurchased will depend on a variety of factors, including price, general business and market conditions and other investment opportunities.
Restructuring
See Note 12 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further cash flow information associated with our restructuring activities.
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Material contractual obligations
The following is a schedule of our material contractual commitments as of April 3, 2026. The expected timing and amount of short-term and long-term payments of the obligations in the following table is estimated based on current information. Timing of payments and actual amounts paid may be different, depending on the time of receipt of goods or services, or changes to agreed-upon amounts for certain obligations.
| (In millions) | Short-Term Payments | Long-Term Payments | Total | ||||||||||||||
| Contractual obligations: | |||||||||||||||||
Debt (principal payments) (1) | $ | 181 | $ | 8,094 | $ | 8,275 | |||||||||||
Interest payments on debt (2) | 474 | 1,525 | 1,999 | ||||||||||||||
Purchase obligations (3) | 532 | 106 | 638 | ||||||||||||||
Operating leases (4) | 22 | 51 | 73 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 1,209 | $ | 9,776 | $ | 10,985 | |||||||||||
(1)Debt (principal payment) is classified based on the currently effective stated maturity dates in force as of April 3, 2026. The classification above does not reflect any earlier maturity that could result from the application of a springing maturity date. See Note 10 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
(2)Interest payments calculated based on the contractual terms of the related debt instruments. Interest on variable rate debt was calculated using the interest rate in effect as of April 3, 2026. See Note 10 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information on the term loans and senior notes.
(3)Agreements for purchases of goods or services, with terms that are enforceable and legally binding and specify all significant terms, including fixed or minimum quantities to be purchased; fixed, minimum, or variable price provisions; and the approximate timing of the transaction. These amounts include agreements to purchase goods or services that have cancellation provisions requiring little or no payment. The amounts under such contracts are included because management believes that cancellation of these contracts is unlikely, and we expect to make future cash payments according to the contract terms or in similar amounts for similar materials.
(4)Payments for various non-cancelable operating lease agreements that expire on various dates through fiscal 2033. The amounts in the table above exclude expected sublease income. See Note 9 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information on leases.
Due to the uncertainty with respect to the timing of future cash flows associated with our unrecognized tax benefits and other long-term taxes as of April 3, 2026, we are unable to make reasonably reliable estimates of the period of cash settlement with the respective taxing authorities. Therefore, $1,584 million in long-term income taxes payable has been excluded from the contractual obligations table. See Note 13 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information.
Indemnifications
In the ordinary course of business, we may provide indemnifications of varying scope and terms to customers, vendors, lessors, business partners, subsidiaries, and other parties with respect to certain matters, including, but not limited to, product warranties and losses arising out of our breach of agreements or representations and warranties made by us, including claims alleging that our software infringes on the intellectual property rights of a third party. In addition, our bylaws contain indemnification obligations to our directors, officers, employees and agents, and we have entered into indemnification agreements with our directors and certain of our officers to give such directors and officers additional contractual assurances regarding the scope of the indemnification set forth in our bylaws and to provide additional procedural protections. We maintain director and officer insurance, which may cover certain liabilities arising from our obligation to indemnify our directors and officers. Refer to Note 18 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further information on our indemnifications.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
We are exposed to various market risks related to fluctuations in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates. We may use derivative and non-derivative financial instruments to reduce the volatility of earnings and cash flow that may result from adverse economic conditions and events or changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates.
Interest rate risk
As of April 3, 2026, we had $2,450 million in aggregate principal amount of fixed-rate Senior Notes outstanding, with a carrying amount and a fair value of $2,443 million, based on Level 2 inputs. The fair value of these notes fluctuates when interest rates change. Since these notes bear interest at fixed rates, the financial statement risk associated with changes in interest rates is limited to future refinancing of current debt obligations. If these notes were refinanced at higher interest rates prior to maturity, our total interest payments could increase by a material amount; however, this risk is mitigated by our strong cash position and expected future cash generated from operations, which will be sufficient to satisfy this increase in obligation.
As of April 3, 2026, we also had $5,825 million outstanding debt with variable interest rates based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR). A hypothetical 100 basis point change in SOFR would have resulted in a $58 million increase or decrease in interest expense on an annualized basis.
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In addition, we have a $1,495 million revolving credit facility, net of our letters of credit, that, if drawn, bears interest at a variable rate based on SOFR and would be subject to the same risks associated with adverse changes in SOFR.
Foreign currency exchange rate risk
We conduct business in numerous currencies through our worldwide operations, and our entities hold monetary assets or liabilities, earn revenues or incur costs in currencies other than each entity’s functional currency, primarily in Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound, Australian Dollar, Czech Koruna and Canadian Dollar. In addition, we charge our international subsidiaries for their use of intellectual property and technology and for certain corporate services provided. Our cash flow, results of operations and certain of our intercompany balances that are exposed to foreign exchange rate fluctuations may differ materially from expectations, and we may record significant gains or losses due to foreign currency fluctuations and related hedging activities. As a result, we are exposed to foreign exchange gains or losses, which impacts our operating results.
Growth in our international operations will incrementally increase our exposure to foreign currency fluctuations as well as volatile market conditions, including the weakening of foreign currencies relative to USD, which has negatively affected, and may in the future continue to negatively affect, our revenue expressed in USD.
We manage these exposures and reduce the potential effects of currency fluctuations by executing monthly foreign exchange forward contracts to hedge foreign currency balance sheet exposures. The gains and losses on these foreign exchange contracts are recorded in Other income (expense), net in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
We do not use derivative financial instruments for speculative trading purposes, nor do we hedge our foreign currency exposure in a manner that entirely offsets the effects of changes in foreign exchange rates. As our international operations grow, we will continue to reassess our approach to managing risks related to fluctuations in foreign currency.
Additional information related to our debt and derivative instruments is included in Note 10 and Note 11, respectively, of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
The Consolidated Financial Statements and related disclosures included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report are incorporated by reference into this Item 8. In addition, there were no material retrospective changes to any quarters in the two most recent fiscal years that would require supplementary disclosure.
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
The SEC defines the term “disclosure controls and procedures” to mean a company’s controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. “Disclosure controls and procedures” include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by an issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the issuer’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management. Our management (with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer) has conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this report.
Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(b) Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act) for Gen Digital. Our internal control over financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision of our CEO and CFO to provide reasonable assurance regarding the preparation and reliability of financial reporting and preparation of our financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S.
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, has conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of April 3, 2026, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
We completed the acquisition of MoneyLion in April 2025. Management has excluded MoneyLion from its assessment of the effectiveness of Gen’s internal control over financial reporting as of April 3, 2026. Total assets (excluding goodwill and intangibles) and total revenues of MoneyLion represent approximately 2%, or $354 million and 16%, or $823 million, respectively, of the Consolidated Financial Statement amounts as of, and for the fiscal year ended, April 3, 2026. This exclusion is in accordance with the SEC staff’s general guidance that an assessment of an acquired business may be omitted from the scope of management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting during the first year after completion of an acquisition while integrating the acquired company.
Our management has concluded that, as of April 3, 2026, our internal control over financial reporting was effective at the reasonable assurance level based on these criteria.
The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as of April 3, 2026, has been audited by KPMG LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report, which is included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(c) Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the fiscal quarter ended April 3, 2026 that has materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
On April 17, 2025, we completed our acquisition of MoneyLion and are currently integrating MoneyLion into our operations and internal control processes. Our initial assessment of MoneyLion’s internal control over financial reporting is ongoing. We have designed and implemented new controls as needed.
MoneyLion Material Weakness
A material weakness is a deficiency or a combination of deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of a registrant’s financial statement will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
Prior to the acquisition by Gen, MoneyLion reported an identified material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting. As a result, MoneyLion concluded that, as of December 31, 2024, its disclosure controls and procedures were not
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effective in providing reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act was recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by SEC rules and forms. The material weakness identified relates to MoneyLion’s Credit Builder Loan product, involving certain cash disbursements made to customer escrow accounts that were not in accordance with the product’s terms. While the related transactions were properly reflected in the financial statements and no misstatements were identified, the control deficiency could have resulted in unauthorized disbursements of cash. Accordingly, this deficiency was determined to constitute a material weakness. MoneyLion has undertaken steps to remediate the material weakness and we are evaluating the steps that have been taken under Gen’s control framework.
(d) Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal controls will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. The design of a control system also is based in part upon assumptions and judgments made by management about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that a given control will be effective under all potential future conditions. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within our company have been detected.
Item 9B. Other Information
Insider adoption or termination of trading arrangements
During the fiscal quarter ended April 3, 2026, none of our directors or officers (as defined in Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) informed us of the adoption termination
Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections
Not applicable.
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PART III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
The information required by this item will be included under the captions “The Board and Its Committees”, “Our Executive Officers” and “Corporate Governance” in our proxy statement for the 2026 Annual Meeting to be filed with the SEC within 120 days of the fiscal year ended April 3, 2026 (the 2026 Proxy Statement) and is incorporated herein by reference. With regard to the information required by this item regarding compliance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, we will provide disclosure of delinquent Section 16(a) reports, if any, in the 2026 Proxy Statement, and such disclosure, if any, is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 11. Executive Compensation
The information required by this item will be included under the captions “Director Compensation” and “Executive Compensation and Related Information” in our 2026 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference (excluding the information under the subheading “Pay Versus Performance”).
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
The information required by this item will be included under the captions “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” and “Equity Compensation Plan Information” in our 2026 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
The information required by this item will be included under the captions “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions” and “Board Independence” in our 2026 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Our independent registered public accounting firm is KPMG LLP , Santa Clara, CA , Auditor Firm ID: 185 .
The information required by this item will be included under the caption “Principal Accountant Fees and Services” in our 2026 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
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PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
(a)
(1). Financial Statements
Upon written request, we will provide, without charge, a copy of this annual report, including the Consolidated Financial Statements and financial statement schedule. All requests should be sent to:
Gen Digital Inc.
Attn: Investor Relations
60 E. Rio Salado, Suite 1000
Tempe, Arizona 85281
(650) 527-8000
The following documents are filed as part of this report:
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| Financial statement schedules have been omitted since they are either not required, not applicable, or the information is otherwise included. | ||||||||
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and Board of Directors
Gen Digital Inc.:
Opinions on the Consolidated Financial Statements and Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Gen Digital Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of April 3, 2026 and March 28, 2025, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended April 3, 2026, and the related notes (collectively, the consolidated financial statements). We also have audited the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of April 3, 2026, based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of April 3, 2026 and March 28, 2025, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended April 3, 2026, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of April 3, 2026 based on criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
The Company acquired MoneyLion Inc. during the year ended April 3, 2026, and management excluded from its assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of April 3, 2026, MoneyLion Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting associated with total assets (excluding goodwill and intangibles) and total revenues representing approximately 2%, or $354 million, and 16%, or $823 million, respectively, included in the consolidated financial statements of the Company as of and for the year ended April 3, 2026. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting of the Company also excluded an evaluation of the internal control over financial reporting of MoneyLion Inc.
Basis for Opinions
The Company’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management's Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
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Critical Audit Matters
The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
Sufficiency of audit evidence over net revenues
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s net revenues are principally derived from the sale of products and services directly to end-user customers through multiple partner distribution channels. The processing of customer orders through to the determination of net revenues to be recognized is reliant upon multiple information technology (IT) systems. The Company recorded $5,000 million of net revenues for the year ended April 3, 2026.
We identified the evaluation of sufficiency of audit evidence over net revenues as a critical audit matter. The evaluation of sufficiency of audit evidence over net revenues required a high degree of subjective auditor judgment due to the number of revenue-related IT systems involved. Specifically, judgment was required to evaluate that revenue data was captured and aggregated throughout various IT systems. Additionally, IT professionals with specialized skills and knowledge were required to evaluate the nature and extent of evidence obtained over net revenues.
The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We applied auditor judgment to determine the nature and extent of procedures to be performed over net revenues. We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of certain internal controls related to the revenue processes, including controls related to IT. We involved IT professionals with specialized skills and knowledge, who assisted in identifying and testing key IT configuration and IT interface controls for the various systems processing and recording revenue transactions. For a sample of transactions, we assessed the recorded revenue by comparing cash receipts to the revenue recognized. We evaluated the sufficiency of audit evidence obtained over net revenues by assessing the results of procedures performed.
Accounting for the Sale of Instacash Advances
As discussed in Note 3 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company originates and sells Instacash Advances pursuant to a Master Receivables Purchase Agreement. These advances are not loans and carry no contractual obligation for customer repayment. The Company accounts for the transfer of these advances as sales of financial assets under ASC 860, Transfers and Servicing. During the year, Instacash Advances sold aggregated $4,126 million with a resulting loss on sale of $205 million. As of April 3, 2026, the Company was servicing $343 million of sold Instacash Advances.
We identified the evaluation of the accounting for Instacash Advances as a critical audit matter. Complex auditor judgment was required to evaluate whether the terms and conditions of Instacash Advances met the criteria for sale of financial asset accounting under relevant accounting guidance.
The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of an internal control related to the Instacash sale accounting. We involved accounting professionals with specialized skills and knowledge, who assisted in evaluating management's accounting analysis and related disclosures and inspecting the underlying agreements to assess the application of the accounting guidance. Additionally, for a sample of Instacash transactions, we compared the originations, transfers and repayments to the underlying documentation as well as the Company's accounting policy to determine that the transactions were accounted for in accordance with the relevant accounting guidance.
/s/ KPMG LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2002.
Santa Clara, California
May 21, 2026
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GEN DIGITAL INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
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The accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
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GEN DIGITAL INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
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The accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
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GEN DIGITAL INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
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| Comprehensive income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
The accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
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GEN DIGITAL INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)
(In millions, except share amounts)
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| Other comprehensive income (loss), net of taxes | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(1) Amount includes excise tax on share repurchases.
The accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
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(1) During fiscal 2025, in connection with a legal settlement terminating our agreement with an Avast e-commerce partner that acted as payment processor and merchant of record for a subset of customers, we released our claims to $66 million of outstanding accounts receivable (net of any fees payable) in exchange for the transfer of the related customer information to us. The $66 million was charged off as general and administrative expense and is reflected as a non-cash item within the change in accounts receivable in operating activities for fiscal 2025. No comparable activity occurred in fiscal 2026 or fiscal 2024.
(2) Issuance costs paid for issuance of debt for fiscal year ended 2026 and 2025 was $16 million and $9 million, respectively.
The accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1. Description of Business and Significant Accounting Policies
Business
Gen Digital Inc. is a global leader in consumer Cyber Safety and Trust-Based Solutions, empowering people around the world to live safer digital lives while building confidence and control over their financial futures. Through its trusted brands, including Norton, Avast, LifeLock and MoneyLion, Gen offers cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to consumers worldwide.
Basis of presentation
Fiscal calendar
We have a 52/53-week fiscal year ending on the Friday closest to March 31. Fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024 in this report refers to fiscal years ended April 3, 2026, March 28, 2025 and March 29, 2024, respectively. Fiscal year 2026 consisted of 53 weeks, whereas fiscal years 2025 and 2024 each consisted of 52 weeks.
Use of estimates
The preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the amounts reported and disclosed in the Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying Notes. Such estimates include, but are not limited to, valuation of business combinations including acquired intangible assets and goodwill, loss contingencies, provision for credit losses, valuation of our contingent value rights (CVRs), the recognition and measurement of current and deferred income taxes, including assessment of unrecognized tax benefits, and valuation of assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, management determines these estimates and assumptions based on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable. Third-party valuation specialists are also utilized for certain estimates. Actual results could differ from such estimates and assumptions due to risks and uncertainties, including uncertainty in the current economic environment as a result of macroeconomic factors such as inflation, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates relative to the U.S. dollar, our reporting currency, changes in interest rates, ongoing and new geopolitical conflicts, and such differences may be material to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
Significant Accounting Policies
With the exception of those discussed in Note 2, there were no material changes in accounting pronouncements issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that were applicable or adopted by us during fiscal 2026.
Revenue recognition
We sell products and services directly to end-users and through multiple partner distribution channels. Revenue recognition begins when we transfer control of the promised products or services to our customers in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to be entitled to in exchange for such products or services. Our customer definition aligns with the control principles as outlined under Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 606. Performance periods are generally one year or less, and payments are generally collected up front. Revenue is recognized net of any taxes collected from customers and subsequently remitted to governmental authorities.
Our customers are primarily users of our products and solutions and have a direct billing relationship with us. However, our customers, also include users who do not have a direct billing relationship with us but register on our e-commerce site through our e-commerce partners. When referring to e-commerce partners, we are referring to those that are our fulfillment and payment processors who perform primarily administrative functions, such as collecting payment and remitting any required sales tax to governmental authorities. Revenue from these e-commerce partners is recognized on a gross basis, excluding fees paid to e-commerce partners.
We also generate revenue from stand-ready referral arrangements with third-party partners based on variable transaction prices. Revenue from these arrangements is recognized in the period in which services are provided, to the extent it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is resolved.
We offer various channel rebates for our products. Our estimated reserves for channel volume incentive rebates are based on distributors’ and resellers’ performance compared to the terms and conditions of volume incentive rebate programs, which are typically entered into quarterly. Our reserves for rebates are estimated based on the terms and conditions of the promotional program, actual sales during the promotion, the amount of redemptions received, historical redemption trends by product and by type of promotional program and the value of the rebate. We record estimated reserves for rebates as an offset to revenue or contract liabilities. As of April 3, 2026 and March 28, 2025, reserves for rebates, recorded in Other current liabilities, were $4 million and $2 million, respectively. For products that include content updates and services, rebates are recognized as a ratable offset to revenue or contract liabilities over the term of the subscription.
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Performance obligations
At contract inception, we assess the products and services promised in the contract to identify each performance obligation and evaluate whether the performance obligations are capable of being distinct and are distinct within the context of the contract. Performance obligations that are not both capable of being distinct and are distinct within the context of the contract are combined and treated as a single performance obligation in determining the allocation and recognition of revenue.
Our software solutions typically consist of a term-based subscription as well as when-and-if available software updates and upgrades. We have determined that our promises to transfer the software license subscription and the related support and maintenance are not separately identifiable because:
•the licensed software and the software updates and upgrades are highly interdependent and highly interrelated, working together to deliver continuously updated protection to customers;
•by identifying and addressing new threats, the software updates and upgrades significantly modify the licensed software and are integral to maintaining its utility; and
•given the rapid pace with which new threats are identified, the value of the licensed software diminishes rapidly without the software updates and upgrades.
We therefore consider the software license and related support obligations a single, combined performance obligation with revenue recognized over time as our solutions are delivered.
Revenue from services is recognized as services are completed or ratably over the contractual period.
Sale of Instacash Advances
Sales of Instacash Advances (the amount advanced to the customer) are accounted for as a sale when we determine that the Instacash Advances meet all the necessary criteria, including legal isolation for transferred assets, lack of constraint on the transferee to pledge or exchange the transferred assets for their benefit and the transfer of control. As a result, we no longer record these Instacash Advances in our Consolidated Financial Statements. We have also concluded that our continuing involvement in the sales arrangement does not affect this determination. We retain the servicing rights for the Instacash Advances sold and receive a market-based service fee for servicing the assets sold.
Instacash Advances held for sale are recorded at the lower of cost or fair value. If fair value is lower than cost, the difference between cost and fair value is recorded as a component of loss on sale within our sales and marketing expense in the Consolidated Statement of Operations. If we no longer have the intent to sell Instacash Advances held for sale, they are reclassified to Accounts Receivables, net at cost.
Net Interest Income on Notes Receivables
Net interest income on notes receivables is generated by interest earned on our Credit Builder Loan product, which are classified as notes receivables within accounts receivable, net on the Consolidated Balance Sheet.
Interest income and the related accrued interest receivables on notes receivables are accrued based upon the daily principal amount outstanding except for loans that are on nonaccrual status. We recognize interest income using the effective interest method. Our policy is to suspend recognition of interest income on notes receivables and place the loan on nonaccrual status when the account is 60 days or more past due on a contractual basis or when, in our estimation, the collectability of the account is uncertain and has not yet been charged-off.
Fair value measurements
For assets and liabilities measured at fair value, fair value is the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining fair value, we consider the principal or most advantageous market in which we would transact, and we consider assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability.
The three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value are:
•Level 1: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
•Level 2: Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in less active markets or model-derived valuations. All significant inputs used in our valuations, such as discounted cash flows, are observable or can be derived principally from or corroborated with observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
•Level 3: Unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of assets or liabilities. We monitor and review the inputs and results of these valuation models to help ensure the fair value measurements are reasonable and consistent with market experience in similar asset classes.
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Assets measured and recorded at fair value:
Cash equivalents. We consider all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less at the time of purchase to be cash equivalents. Cash equivalents are carried at amounts that approximate fair value due to the short period of time to maturity.
Non-marketable investments. Our non-marketable investments consist of equity investments in privately-held companies without a readily determinable fair value. We primarily measure these investments at cost minus impairment, if any, plus or minus changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for identical or similar investments of the same issuer. We may elect to measure certain investments at fair value, for which we utilize third-party valuation specialists at least annually in the fourth quarter of each fiscal year, or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate a change in the fair value of the investment. Gains and losses on these investments, whether realized or unrealized, are recognized in Other income (expense), net in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
We assess the recoverability of our non-marketable investments by reviewing various indicators of impairment. If indicators are present, a fair value measurement is made by performing a discounted cash flow analysis of the investment. We immediately recognize the impairment to our non-marketable equity investments if the carrying value exceeds the fair value.
Accounts receivable
Accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount and are not interest bearing. We maintain an allowance for credit losses to reserve for expected uncollectible receivables. We also maintain an allowance for credit losses on notes receivable, related accrued interest and retained Instacash Advances. The allowance is recorded through a provision for credit losses and subsequent charge-offs, net of recoveries, are applied directly against this allowance.
We review our accounts receivable by aging category to identify specific customers or accounts with known disputes, delinquencies or collectability issues. In addition, we maintain an allowance for all other receivables not included in the specific reserve by applying estimates of expected credit losses to receivables with similar risk characteristics. In determining these percentages, we use judgment based on our historical collection experience and current economic trends as well as reasonable and supportable forecasts of future economic conditions, recent trends in delinquencies and charge-offs and other relevant factors. Due to the short-term nature of certain receivables, recent delinquency and charge-off trends are a primary consideration in estimating expected credit losses for those balances.
Restricted Cash
Restricted cash consists of cash we are required to hold in reserve under our arrangements with certain vendors, including payment processors and partner banks, to support loan and Instacash Advance processing and funding activities. All cash accounts are held in federally insured institutions, which may at times exceed federally insured limits.
Property and equipment
Property, equipment, and leasehold improvements are stated at cost, net of accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is provided on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives. Estimated useful lives for financial reporting purposes are as follows: buildings, 20 to 30 years; building improvements, 7 to 20 years; leasehold improvements, the lesser of the life of the improvement or the initial lease term, and computer hardware and software and office furniture and equipment, 3 to 5 years.
Internal-use software development costs
Leases
We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. We have elected to not recognize a lease liability or right-of-use (ROU) asset for short-term leases (leases with a term of twelve months or less that do not include an option to purchase the underlying asset). Operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the lease term at commencement date. The interest rate we use to determine the present value of future payments is our incremental borrowing rate because the rate implicit in our leases is not readily determinable. Our incremental borrowing rate is a hypothetical rate for collateralized borrowings in economic environments where the leased asset is located based on credit rating factors. Our operating lease assets also include adjustments for prepaid lease payments, lease incentives and initial direct costs.
Certain lease contracts include obligations to pay for other services, such as operations and maintenance. We elected the practical expedient whereby we record all lease components and the related minimum non-lease components as a single lease component. Cash payments made for variable lease costs are not included in the measurement of our operating lease assets and liabilities. Many of our lease terms include one or more options to renew. We do not assume renewals in our determination of the lease term unless it is reasonably certain that we will exercise that option. Lease costs for minimum lease payments for
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Business combinations
Goodwill
Goodwill is recorded when consideration paid for an acquisition exceeds the fair value of net tangible and intangible assets acquired. Goodwill is allocated to our reporting units, which are an operating segment or one level below an operating segment.
We perform an impairment assessment of goodwill at the reporting unit level at least annually in the fourth quarter of each fiscal year, or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate that the asset may be impaired. The accounting guidance gives us the option to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. The qualitative assessment considers events and circumstances that might indicate that a reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount. If it is determined, as a result of the qualitative assessment, that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, a quantitative test is performed.
In fiscal 2026, based on our qualitative assessments, we concluded that it is more likely than not that the fair values are more than their carrying values. Accordingly, there was no indication of impairment of goodwill, and further quantitative testing was not required.
Long-lived assets
In connection with our acquisitions, we generally recognize assets for customer relationships, developed technology, finite-lived trade names, other intangibles and indefinite-lived trade names. Finite-lived intangible assets are carried at cost less accumulated amortization. Such amortization is provided on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets, generally from 1 to 10 years. Amortization for developed technology is recognized in cost of revenue. Amortization for customer relationships and certain trade names is recognized in operating expenses. Indefinite-lived intangible assets are not subject to amortization but instead tested for impairment annually or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable.
There were no 3 million related to our long-lived assets.
Contract liabilities
Contract liabilities consist of deferred revenue and customer deposit liabilities and represent cash payments received or due in advance of fulfilling our performance obligations. Deferred revenue represents billings under non-cancelable contracts before the related product or service is transferred to the customer. Certain arrangements include terms that allow the customer to terminate the contract and receive a refund for a period of time. In these arrangements, we have concluded there are no future enforceable rights and obligations during the period in which the option to cancel is exercisable by the customer, and therefore the consideration received or due from the customer is recorded as a customer deposit liability.
Debt
Our debt includes senior unsecured notes, senior term loans and a senior secured revolving credit facility. Our senior unsecured notes are recorded at par value at issuance less a discount representing the amount by which the face value exceeds the fair value at the date of issuance and an amount which represents issuance costs. Our senior term loans are recorded at par value less debt issuance costs, which are recorded as a reduction in the carrying value of the debt. The discount and issuance costs associated with the various notes are amortized using the effective interest rate method over the term of the debt as a non-cash charge to interest expense. Borrowings under our revolving credit facility, if any, are recognized at principal balance plus accrued interest based upon stated interest rates. Debt maturities are classified as current liabilities on our Consolidated Balance Sheets if we are contractually obligated to repay them in the next twelve months or, prior to the balance sheet date, we have the authorization and intent to repay them prior to their contractual maturities and within the next twelve months.
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Treasury stock
Contingent Value Rights (CVRs)
We account for warrants as either equity-classified or liability-classified instruments based on an assessment of the warrant’s specific terms and applicable authoritative guidance in ASC 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity and ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging. The assessment considers whether the warrants are freestanding financial instruments pursuant to ASC 480, meet the definition of liability pursuant to ASC 480, and whether the warrants meet all the requirements for equity classification under ASC 815, including whether the warrants are indexed to our own common stock, among other conditions for equity classification. The currently outstanding CVRs issued as part of the MoneyLion acquisition consideration are classified as equity under these conditions.
Restructuring
Restructuring actions generally include significant actions involving employee-related severance charges, contract termination costs and asset write-offs and impairments. Employee-related severance charges are largely based upon substantive severance plans, while some charges result from mandated requirements in certain foreign jurisdictions. These charges are reflected in the period when both the actions are probable and the amounts are estimable. Contract termination costs reflect costs that will continue to be incurred under a contract for its remaining term without future economic benefit. These charges are reflected in the period when a contract is terminated. Asset write-offs and impairments, including those associated with ROU lease assets, are recorded in the period when an asset is retired or a facility is no longer operational.
Income taxes
We compute the provision for income taxes using the asset and liability method, under which deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax basis of assets and liabilities and for operating losses and tax credit carryforwards in each jurisdiction in which we operate. We measure deferred tax assets and liabilities using the currently enacted tax rates that apply to taxable income in effect for the years in which those tax assets are expected to be realized or settled.
We also assess the likelihood that deferred tax assets will be realized from future taxable income and based on weighting positive and negative evidence, we will assess and determine the need for a valuation allowance, if required. The determination of our valuation allowance involves assumptions, judgments and estimates, including forecasted earnings, future taxable income and the relative proportions of revenue and income before taxes in the various domestic and international jurisdictions in which we operate. To the extent we establish a valuation allowance or change the valuation allowance in a period, we reflect the change with a corresponding increase or decrease to Income tax expense (benefit) in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
We record accruals for unrecognized tax benefits when we believe that it is not more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on examination by the taxing authorities based on the technical merits of the position. We also record accruals for unrecognized tax benefits at the largest amount that is greater than 50 % likely of being realized based on the technical merits of the position. We adjust these accruals when facts and circumstances change, such as the closing of a tax audit or the refinement of an estimate. The provision for income taxes includes the effects of adjustments for unrecognized tax benefits as well as any related interest and penalties.
Stock-based compensation
We measure and recognize stock-based compensation for all stock-based awards, including restricted stock units (RSU), performance-based restricted stock units (PRU), stock options and rights to purchase shares under our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), based on their estimated fair value on the grant date. We recognize the costs in our Consolidated Financial Statements on a straight-line basis over the award’s requisite service period except for PRUs with graded vesting, for which we recognize the costs on a graded basis. For awards with performance conditions, the amount of compensation cost we recognize over the requisite service period is based on the actual or estimated achievement of the performance condition. We estimate the number of stock-based awards that will be forfeited due to employee turnover.
The fair value of each RSU and PRU that does not contain a market condition is equal to the market value of our common stock on the date of grant. The fair value of each PRU that contains a market condition is estimated using the Monte Carlo simulation model. The fair values of RSUs and PRUs are not discounted by the dividend yield because our RSUs and PRUs include dividend-equivalent rights, except for the 4 million unvested RSUs assumed as part of our acquisition MoneyLion. We use the Black-Scholes model to determine the fair value of stock options and the fair value of rights to acquire shares of common stock under our ESPP. The Black-Scholes valuation model incorporates a number of variables, including our expected stock price volatility over the expected life of the awards, actual and projected employee exercise and forfeiture behaviors, risk-free interest rates and expected dividends. If we do not have sufficient historical exercise data to provide a reasonable basis upon which to estimate expected life, we estimate the expected life of the stock option awards granted based on its expected term using the simplified method available under U.S. GAAP.
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Foreign currency
For foreign subsidiaries whose functional currency is the local currency, assets and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars using the exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date. Meanwhile, revenue and expenses are translated using the average exchange rates during the period. Gains and losses resulting from translation of these foreign currency financial statements into U.S. dollars are recorded in AOCI. Remeasurement adjustments are recorded in Other income (expense), net in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Concentrations of risk
A significant portion of our revenue is derived from international sales. Fluctuations of the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies, changes in local regulatory or economic conditions, or piracy could adversely affect our operating results.
We are exposed to credit risk principally through cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash and trade accounts receivable.
The associated risk of concentration for cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash is mitigated by maintaining balances with creditworthy financial institutions in accordance with our investment policy, which limits the amount of credit exposure to any one bank and to any one country. At certain times, amounts on deposit may exceed federal deposit insurance limits.
A majority of our trade receivables are derived from sales to E-commerce partners and retailers that distribute our cyber safety products. We also make consumer loans and advances to our Trust-Based Solutions customers. The credit risk in our trade accounts receivable is substantially mitigated by our credit evaluation process, reasonably short collection terms, and the consumer nature and geographical dispersion of sales transactions. We maintain an allowance for credit losses on our trade accounts receivable.
No e-commerce partners accounted for over 10% of our total billed and unbilled accounts receivable for the fiscal year ended April 3, 2026. One e-commerce partner accounted for approximately 11 % of accounts receivable as of March 28, 2025.
Advertising and other promotional costs
Contingencies
We evaluate contingent liabilities including threatened or pending litigation in accordance with the authoritative guidance on contingencies. We assess the likelihood of any adverse judgments or outcomes from potential claims or proceedings, as well as potential ranges of probable losses, when the outcomes of the claims or proceedings are probable and reasonably estimable. A determination of the amount of an accrual required, if any, for these contingencies is made after the analysis of each separate matter. Because of uncertainties related to these matters, we base our estimates on the information available at the time of our assessment. As additional information becomes available, we reassess the potential liability related to our pending claims and litigation and may revise our estimates.
Government Regulation
We are subject to various state and federal laws and regulations in each of the states in which we operate, which are subject to change and may impose significant costs or limitations on the way we conduct or expand our business. Our consumer loans and advances are originated under individual state laws, which may carry different rate and rate limits, and have varying terms and conditions depending upon the state in which they are offered. We are also subject to state licensing requirements of each individual U.S. state in which we operate, including with respect to certain consumer lending, life insurance and mortgage products and services that we offer directly or to which we connect consumers through third parties. Other governmental regulations include, but are not limited to, imposed limits on certain charges, insurance products and required licensing and qualifications.
Note 2. Recent Accounting Standards
Recently adopted authoritative guidance
ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. In December 2023, the FASB issued new guidance to update income tax disclosure requirements, requiring disaggregated information about an entity’s effective tax rate reconciliation as well as income taxes paid. This is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. We have adopted the standard in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 3, 2026 using a prospective approach in Note 13. The adoption of the standard has resulted in the modification of our disclosures but had no impact on our consolidated financial position, results of operations or statement of cash flows.
Note 3. Sale of Instacash Advances
Instacash Advance Product Overview
Instacash Advances are our non-recourse earned wage access (EWA) product that provides customers with early access to their anticipated income deposits. Customers who link a bank account can access Instacash Advances at any time during a regular deposit period, up to an approved limit. This product gives customers financial flexibility to address short-term cash needs.
Instacash Advance eligibility is based on verification of the customer’s identity, the linked bank account and identification of recurring income deposits. Repayments are made via pre-authorized bank debits, which customers may cancel without penalty,
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modify, defer, or reschedule within allowable limits. Customers must be current on Instacash Advance repayments in order to access new ones. Instacash Advances do not bear interest or mandatory fees. There are no fees for standard fund delivery, although expedited delivery is available for an optional fee (Turbo Fee). Customers may also leave an optional tip (Tip) for use of the service.
Accounting for Instacash Advances
Instacash Advances are not loans. The customer has no contractual obligation to repay an Instacash Advance, although the customer must be current on Instacash Advance repayments to request another Instacash Advance. At the point of Instacash Advance origination, the customer requests an available Instacash Advance amount, decides whether to incur an optional Turbo Fee and leave a tip, confirms the scheduled repayment date and authorizes automatic debit repayment. In the absence of directly applicable authoritative guidance, although Instacash Advances do not meet the U.S. GAAP definition of financial assets, we believe that financial asset accounting is the most relevant for financial reporting purposes, as there is a history of customers repaying the amount advanced.
We originate Instacash Advances with an intent to immediately sell, and sales of Instacash Advances are accounted for as sales under ASC 860, Transfers and Servicing (ASC 860), when all required conditions are met, including legal isolation of the transferred assets, no constraints on the transferee’s ability to pledge or exchange the assets, and no effective control over the assets.
Instacash Advances are sold pursuant to a Master Receivables Purchase Agreement (the Purchase Agreement) with Sound Point Capital Management LP (Sound Point). The Purchase Agreement has an initial two-year term beginning on June 30, 2024, with a one-year extension option upon mutual agreement. The Purchase Agreement allows the purchasers to acquire, on a committed basis and subject to certain conditions and concentration limits, a majority of our eligible Instacash Advances, up to an aggregate facility limit of $225 million at any given time. During fiscal 2026, we sold $4,126 million of Instacash Advances under the Purchase Agreement and had no unused capacity as of April 3, 2026. Optional Turbo Fees and Tips associated with Instacash Advances are excluded from the sale and are not transferred under the Purchase Agreement.
Each Instacash Advance portfolio is initially priced at a fixed discount based on historical portfolio performance and loss rates. Future purchase prices are subject to adjustment based on the updated portfolio performance and changes to the applicable discount rate.
Consistent with ASC 860, Instacash Advances sold under the Purchase Agreement are removed from our balance sheet. We retain the associated servicing rights and earn a market-based servicing fee. Turbo Fees and Tips are recognized after performance is completed and cash is collected.
Instacash Advances that have been originated and are pending sale under the Purchase Agreement are classified as held for sale and are measured at the lower of cost or fair value. During fiscal 2026, we recognized $205 million in loss on the mark-to-market and sale of Instacash Advances, which is recorded in sales and marketing in our Consolidated Statement of Operations. If an Instacash Advance does not qualify for sale pursuant to the Purchase Agreement or if the intent to sell ceases, the Instacash Advance is reclassified to Accounts receivable, net, and carried at net realizable value.
In connection with the Purchase Agreement, MoneyLion Technologies Inc. (the Servicer), a wholly owned subsidiary of ours, entered into a Servicing Agreement with Sound Point and the purchasers party thereto. Under this agreement, we are responsible for servicing the sold receivables, including collections, remittances, and reporting. We earn a fixed percentage of net collections as a servicing fee, which is recognized as income when collections are received. As of April 3, 2026, we were responsible for servicing $343 million of Instacash Advances sold under the Purchase Agreement. During fiscal 2026, we recognized $59 million in , recorded in Net revenues in our Consolidated Statement of Operations. As of April 3, 2026, we had $32 million payable to Sound Point relating to the servicing activity, which will be settled using restricted cash and receivables from payment processors recorded in Other current assets.
Refer to Note 7 for a breakdown of our Instacash Advances balance, which is included in Accounts receivable, net in our Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Note 4. Business Combinations
Fiscal 2025 acquisition
On January 28, 2025, we acquired all of the outstanding shares of a technology-enabled personal finance education and recommendation platform for an aggregate purchase price of $84 million, net of $1 million cash acquired. The net purchase price was primarily allocated to goodwill and intangible assets of $52 million and $32 million, respectively.
Fiscal 2026 MoneyLion acquisition
On December 10, 2024, we entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MoneyLion. We completed the acquisition of MoneyLion on April 17, 2025. MoneyLion extends our identity solutions into offering comprehensive financial wellness through MoneyLion’s full-featured personal finance platform that includes credit building and financial management services.
Under the terms of the definitive agreement, each share of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of MoneyLion, that was issued and outstanding as of immediately prior to the effective time of the acquisition was automatically cancelled, extinguished, and converted into the right to receive cash in an amount equal to $82.00 , without interest thereon. Additionally, we cancelled all in-the money outstanding stock options, whether vested or unvested, and converted into the right to receive (i) an amount in cash, without interest thereon, equal to the product obtained by multiplying (a) the number of in-the-
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money outstanding stock option immediately prior to the close by (b) the excess, if any, of MoneyLion’s closing stock price over the exercise price per share of such in-the-money stock option and (ii) one CVR in respect of each in-the-money stock option immediately prior to the close. Any outstanding stock option with an exercise price greater than or equal to MoneyLion’s closing stock price per share was forfeited and canceled for no consideration. We paid cash consideration of approximately $935 million for 100 % of MoneyLion’s issued and outstanding common stock and in-the-money outstanding stock options.
In addition, for each share owned, MoneyLion shareholders received at closing one CVR that entitles the holder to a contingent payment of $23.00 in the form of shares of our common stock (issuable based on an assumed share price of $30.48 per Gen share) if our average volume-weighted average share price reaches at least $37.50 per share over 30 consecutive trading days from December 10, 2024 until April 17, 2027. As of the close of the acquisition, we issued 12 million CVRs representing a fair value of approximately $73 million. Refer to Note 14 for further discussion on the CVRs.
Additionally, all outstanding and unvested RSUs and PSUs were assumed and converted into 4 million service-based RSUs of Gen’s common stock. The conversion was calculated by multiplying the total number of unvested RSUs and PSUs by an equity conversion ratio of 3.48 . All converted RSUs will vest in accordance with the vesting period set forth in the original award agreement assuming continued service by the recipients through such date. The total fair value of these converted restricted stock awards was approximately $92 million, which $21 million was for pre-combination services and therefore, represents purchase consideration and $71 million will be recognized as stock-compensation expense over the requisite service period.
Consideration transferred
The total consideration for the acquisition of MoneyLion was approximately $951 million, net of cash acquired, and consisted of the following:
| (In millions) | April 17, 2025 | ||||
Cash consideration for outstanding MoneyLion common shares | $ | ||||
Fair value of assumed and converted equity awards | |||||
Fair value of CVRs | |||||
| Total consideration | |||||
Less cash acquired | |||||
| Net consideration transferred | $ | ||||
Fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed
Our final allocation of the aggregate purchase price for the acquisition as of April 17, 2025 was as follows:
| (In millions) | April 17, 2025 | ||||
| Assets: | |||||
Accounts receivable (1) | $ | ||||
| Other current assets | |||||
Assets held for sale | |||||
| Property and equipment | |||||
| Operating lease assets | |||||
| Intangible assets | |||||
| Goodwill | |||||
| Other long-term assets | |||||
| Total assets acquired | |||||
| Liabilities: | |||||
Accounts payable | |||||
| Current liabilities | |||||
| Contract liabilities | |||||
| Operating lease liabilities | |||||
| Other long-term obligations | |||||
| Total liabilities assumed | |||||
| Total purchase price | $ | ||||
(1) Gross accounts receivable at acquisition date and the amount of receivables expected to be collected are materially the same.
Our estimates and assumptions were subject to refinement within the measurement period, which ended during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026. Adjustments to the purchase price during the measurement period required adjustments to be made to goodwill. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, we recorded measurement period adjustments resulting in a decrease to goodwill of $7 million, primarily related to deferred tax assets, which resulted in an increase of $7 million to other long-term assets.
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The goodwill of $560 million represents the excess of the consideration transferred over the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed. It is attributable to the expected synergies of the acquisition, including future cost savings from planned integration of infrastructure, facilities, personnel and systems, and other benefits that are anticipated to be generated by combining both companies. Goodwill is allocated to our Trust-Based Solutions Segment. The goodwill recognized is not expected to be deductible for U.S. tax purposes. See Note 6 for further information on goodwill.
The identified intangible assets and their respective useful lives, as of April 17, 2025, are as follows:
| (In millions, except for useful lives) | Fair Value | Weighted-Average Estimated Useful Life (Years) | ||||||
Customer and partner relationships (1) | $ | |||||||
Developed technology (2) | ||||||||
Finite-lived trade names and other (3) | ||||||||
| Total identified intangible assets | $ | |||||||
(1) Customer and partner relationships include marketplace partner relationships, banking partner relationships, and customer relationships of $42 million, $4 million, and $56 million, respectively. Marketplace partner relationships were valued using the multi-period excess earnings method (MPEEM), which is a form of the income approach, which considers significant assumptions like discount rate, long-term growth rate, and attrition factor. Banking partner relationships and customer relationships were valued using the replacement cost approach. The replacement cost approach is a valuation method that relies on estimating the replacement costs of assets based on the cost that a market participant would incur to generate the acquired portfolio of relationships.
(2) Developed technology was valued using the Relief-from-Royalty method, which is a form of the income approach, which considers significant assumptions like long-term growth rates, royalty rates, discount rates, and obsolescence rates.
Financing
In connection with our acquisition of MoneyLion, we entered into the Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the Second Amendment) with certain financial institutions to fund a portion of the cash consideration paid, in which they agreed to provide to us a $750 million Incremental Term B Facility, which matures on April 16, 2032. We incurred $9 million of debt issuance costs associated with the Incremental Term B Facility, which was capitalized and included in long-term debt in our Consolidated Balance Sheets. See Note 10 for further information about this debt instrument and the related debt covenants.
Impact on operating results
Our results of operations for fiscal 2026 includes $823 million of net revenues attributable to MoneyLion beginning April 17, 2025. It is impracticable to provide after-tax earnings attributable to MoneyLion subsequent to the acquisition due to the integration of our operations. We do not consider MoneyLion to be a separate operating segment or reporting unit, but rather an integrated brand, selling and marketing strategy within our Trust-Based Solutions segment.
We recognized immaterial transaction costs during fiscal 2026. These costs were primarily associated with legal and professional services, which were expensed as incurred and included in general and administrative expenses in our Consolidated Statement of Operations.
Unaudited pro forma information
The following unaudited pro forma financial information represents the combined historical results for the fiscal years 2026 and 2025, as if the acquisition had been completed on March 30, 2024, the first day of fiscal 2025. The results below include the alignment of fiscal reporting periods and the impact of nonrecurring pro forma adjustments, including amortization of acquired intangible assets, interest on debt issued to finance the acquisition, stock-based compensation related to awards issued in conjunction with the acquisition, acquisition-related transaction costs, accounting policy alignment and the income tax effect of other pro forma adjustments. The unaudited pro forma results do not include any anticipated synergies or other expected benefits of the acquisition. The following table summarizes the unaudited pro forma financial information:
Year Ended | |||||||||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Net revenues | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | $ | |||||||||
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The unaudited pro forma financial information is provided for informational purposes only and is not indicative of future operations or results that would have been achieved had the acquisition been completed as of the beginning of fiscal 2025.
Fiscal 2026 acquisition
On March 10, 2026, we acquired all of the outstanding shares of a technology-enabled company that provides a digital personal insurance marketplace platform in the United States. The platform delivers insurance comparison and advisory services using data-driven matching capabilities, real-time bidding technology, and conversational interfaces supported by licensed insurance advisors. The acquisition brings additional insurance capabilities into the Engine by Gen marketplace.
The total purchase consideration was $175 million, net of $6 million cash acquired. The acquisition was not material to our Consolidated Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended April 3, 2026. Accordingly, we have not presented certain disclosures otherwise required by ASC 805, including the impact on our operating results or pro-forma financial information.
The accounting for the acquisition is preliminary as we continue to evaluate certain assets acquired and liabilities assumed. The valuation of assets acquired and liabilities assumed remains in process. As a result, the allocation of the purchase price has not been finalized. We currently expect that the purchase consideration will be primarily allocated to goodwill in our Trust-Based Solutions Segment. Based on preliminary estimates, approximately $171 million of the purchase consideration has been allocated to goodwill. We expect to finalize the purchase price allocation during the measurement period, which will not exceed one year from the acquisition date.
Note 5. Revenues
Disaggregation of revenues
The following table summarizes the components of our net revenues:
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| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
Subscription and service revenue (1) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Net interest income on notes receivable | |||||||||||||||||
Net revenues | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
(1) Subscription and service revenue includes amounts related to our Instacash Advances of $479 million in fiscal 2026. Refer to Note 3 for additional information regarding our Instacash Advances.
Contract liabilities
During fiscal 2026 and 2025, we recognized $1,820 million and $1,777 million of revenue, respectively, from the contract liabilities balance at the beginning of the respective fiscal years.
Remaining performance obligations
Remaining performance obligations represent contracted revenue that has not been recognized, which include contract liabilities and, when applicable, amounts that will be billed and recognized as revenue in future periods. As of April 3, 2026, we had $1,320 million of remaining performance obligations, excluding customer deposit liabilities of $657 million, of which we expect to recognize approximately 94 % as revenue over the next 12 months.
See Note 1 for a description of our revenue recognition policy and Note 17 for tabular disclosures of disaggregated revenue by reportable segment and geographic region.
Note 6. Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill
Subsequent to the completion of our acquisition of MoneyLion on April 17, 2025, our portfolio now spans two reportable segments, Cyber Safety Platform and Trust-Based Solutions. See Note 17 for additional information on our reportable segments and Note 4 for additional information on our acquisition of MoneyLion.
We perform an impairment assessment of goodwill at the reporting unit level at least annually in the fourth quarter of each fiscal year, or more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate that the asset may be impaired. As a result of the change in reportable segments, our reporting units also changed. We used the relative fair value method to allocate goodwill to the associated reporting units. In connection with the preparation of our Condensed Financial Statements for the fiscal quarter ended July 4, 2025, we tested goodwill for impairment immediately before and after the change. As a result of these analyses, we determined that goodwill was not impaired before or after the change.
To determine the fair value of a reporting unit, we utilized a combination of the income and market approaches, applying equal weighting to both. The income approach is estimated through discounted cash flow analysis, which requires us to use significant estimates and assumptions, including long-term growth rates, discount rates, and other inputs. The market approach estimates the fair value of the reporting unit by utilizing the market comparable method, which is based on various market-based valuation multiples.
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The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill are as follows:
| (In millions) | Cyber Safety Platform | Trust-Based Solutions | Total | ||||||||||||||
| Balance as of March 29, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Acquisitions | |||||||||||||||||
| Translation adjustments | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||
| Balance as of March 28, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
Acquisition | |||||||||||||||||
| Translation adjustments | |||||||||||||||||
| Balance as of April 3, 2026 | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Intangible assets, net
The following table summarizes the components of our intangible assets, net:
| April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (In millions) | Gross Carrying Amount | Accumulated Amortization | Net Carrying Amount | Gross Carrying Amount | Accumulated Amortization | Net Carrying Amount | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Customer relationships | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Developed technology | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total finite-lived intangible assets | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indefinite-lived trade names | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total intangible assets | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amortization expense for purchased intangible assets is summarized below:
| Year Ended | Consolidated Statements of Operations Classification | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Customer relationships and other | $ | $ | $ | Operating expenses | |||||||||||||||||||
Developed technology and other | Cost of revenues | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||
As of April 3, 2026, future amortization expense related to intangible assets that have finite lives is as follows by fiscal year:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | ||||
| 2027 | $ | ||||
| 2028 | |||||
| 2029 | |||||
| 2030 | |||||
| 2031 | |||||
| Thereafter | |||||
| Total | $ | ||||
Asset purchase agreement
In October 2025, we entered into a purchase agreement to sell certain developed technology and assets for $40 million plus the assumption of liabilities related to our digital identity offering to a third-party, who previously licensed the use of the intellectual property from us. We completed the transaction in November 2025. Pursuant to the sale, we derecognized developed technology and other assets, net of associated liabilities, with an aggregate carrying value of approximately $22 million. We accounted for the transaction as a sale of nonfinancial assets under ASC Topic 610-20, Gains and Losses from the Derecognition of Nonfinancial assets. We recognized a gain on sale of nonfinancial assets of approximately $15 million during fiscal 2026, which is included as part of Other income (expense), net in our Consolidated Statement of Operations.
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Note 7. Supplementary Information
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Cash | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Cash equivalents | |||||||||||
| Restricted cash | |||||||||||
| Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | $ | $ | |||||||||
Accounts receivable, net:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Trade receivable | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Notes receivable | |||||||||||
| Instacash Advances | |||||||||||
| Allowance for doubtful accounts | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total accounts receivable, net | $ | $ | |||||||||
Assets held for sale:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Properties held for sale | $ | $ | |||||||||
Instacash Advances held for sale | |||||||||||
Total assets held for sale | $ | $ | |||||||||
Properties held for sale
In April 2025, we completed the sale of certain land and buildings in Tettnang, Germany, which were previously classified to assets held for sale during the second quarter of fiscal year 2025 for cash consideration of $9 million, net of transaction costs, and recognized an immaterial loss on sale.
In October 2025, we completed the sale of certain land and buildings in Dublin, Ireland, which were previously classified to assets held for sale during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023 for cash consideration of $12 million, net of transaction costs, and recognized an immaterial gain on sale.
Instacash Advances held for sale
Instacash Advances held for sale as of April 3, 2026, represent Instacash Advances that we originated and are pending sale under the Purchase Agreement. Refer to Note 3 for additional information regarding the sale of our Instacash Advances.
Other current assets:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Prepaid expenses | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Income tax receivable and prepaid income taxes | |||||||||||
| Other tax receivable | |||||||||||
| Other | |||||||||||
| Total other current assets | $ | $ | |||||||||
Property and equipment, net:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Land | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Computer hardware and software | |||||||||||
| Office furniture and equipment | |||||||||||
| Buildings | |||||||||||
| Leasehold improvements | |||||||||||
| Construction in progress | |||||||||||
| Total property and equipment, gross | |||||||||||
| Accumulated depreciation and amortization | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total property and equipment, net | $ | $ | |||||||||
Depreciation and amortization expense of property and equipment was $16 million, $18 million and $23 million in fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
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Other long-term assets:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Non-marketable equity investments | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Long-term income tax receivable and prepaid income taxes | |||||||||||
| Other | |||||||||||
| Total other long-term assets | $ | $ | |||||||||
Short-term contract liabilities:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Deferred revenue | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Customer deposit liabilities | |||||||||||
| Total short-term contract liabilities | $ | $ | |||||||||
Other current liabilities:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Income taxes payable | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Other taxes payable | |||||||||||
| Accrued legal fees | |||||||||||
| Accrued royalties | |||||||||||
| Accrued interest | |||||||||||
| Unremitted collections from servicing of trade receivables | |||||||||||
| Other accrued liabilities | |||||||||||
| Total other current liabilities | $ | $ | |||||||||
Other long-term liabilities:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Long-term accrued legal fees | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Other | |||||||||||
| Total other long-term liabilities | $ | $ | |||||||||
Long-term income taxes payable:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
Unrecognized tax benefits (including interest and penalties) | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Other long-term income taxes | |||||||||||
| Total long-term income taxes payable | $ | $ | |||||||||
Other income (expense), net:
| Year Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Interest income | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Foreign exchange gain (loss) (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| Loss on early extinguishment of debt | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Change in fair value and impairment of non-marketable equity investments | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||
| Gain on sale of nonfinancial assets | |||||||||||||||||
| Gain (loss) on sale of properties | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Other | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Total other income (expense), net | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||
(1) We recognize foreign currency remeasurement adjustments on unrecognized tax benefits and deferred taxes as a component of Income tax expense (benefit) in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. Foreign currency remeasurement adjustments recognized in Income tax expense (benefit) were $56 million, $11 million and ($27 ) million for fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
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Supplemental cash flow information:
| Year Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Income taxes paid (received), net of refunds | $ | $ | $ | ( | |||||||||||||
| Interest expense paid | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Originations of certain trade receivables held for sale | $ | ( | $ | $ | |||||||||||||
| Proceeds from the sale of certain trade receivables | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Non-cash operating activities: | |||||||||||||||||
| Operating lease assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Reduction (increase) of operating lease assets as a result of lease terminations and modifications | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||||||
| Non-cash investing and financing activities: | |||||||||||||||||
| Purchases of property and equipment in current liabilities | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Note 8. Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements
The following table summarizes our financial instruments measured at fair value on a recurring basis:
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| (In millions) | Fair Value | Level 1 | Level 2 | Fair Value | Level 1 | Level 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Money market funds | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Interest rate swaps (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) The interest rate swap agreements expired on March 31, 2026 upon their maturity.
Financial instruments not recorded at fair value on a recurring basis include our non-marketable equity investments and long-term debt.
Non-marketable equity investments
As of April 3, 2026 and March 28, 2025, the carrying value of our non-marketable equity investments was $16 million and $109 million, respectively, and is included in Other long-term assets in our Consolidated Balance Sheets.
During fiscal 2026, we sold an equity interest in a non-marketable equity investment. In connection with the sale, we received both cash proceeds and non-cash proceeds in the form of an equity investment. We recognized a gain of $11 million, which is included in Other income (expense), net in our Consolidated Statement of Operations. We also recognized other immaterial losses on sales of our non-marketable equity investments during fiscal 2026, in Other income (expense), net in our Consolidated Statement of Operations.
We recognized impairments of $90 million, $30 million and $40 million on our non-marketable equity investments during fiscal years 2026, 2025 and 2024, respectively, in in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
Current and long-term debt
As of April 3, 2026 and March 28, 2025, the total fair value of our current and long-term fixed-rate debt was $2,443 million and $2,475 million, respectively. The fair value of our variable-rate debts approximated their carrying value. The fair values of all our debt obligations were based on Level 2 inputs.
Note 9. Leases
We lease certain facilities, equipment, and data center co-locations under operating leases that expire on various dates through fiscal 2033. Our leases generally have terms that range from 1 year to 9 years for our facilities, 1 year to 4 years for equipment and 1 year to 5 years for data center co-locations. Some of our leases contain renewal options, escalation clauses, rent concessions and leasehold improvement incentives.
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The following summarizes our lease costs for fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024:
| Year Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Operating lease costs | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Short-term lease costs | |||||||||||||||||
| Variable lease costs | |||||||||||||||||
| Total lease costs | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Other information related to our operating leases for fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024 was as follows:
| Year Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Weighted-average remaining lease term | |||||||||||||||||
| Weighted-average discount rate | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||
See Note 7 for cash flow information related to our operating leases.
As of April 3, 2026, the maturities of our lease liabilities by fiscal year are as follows:
| (In millions) | |||||
| 2027 | $ | ||||
| 2028 | |||||
| 2029 | |||||
| 2030 | |||||
| 2031 | |||||
| Thereafter | |||||
| Total lease payments | |||||
| Less: Imputed interest | ( | ||||
| Present value of lease liabilities | $ | ||||
Note 10. Debt
The following table summarizes components of our debt:
| (In millions, except percentages) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | Effective Interest Rate | ||||||||||||||
| Term A Facility due September 12, 2027 | $ | $ | SOFR + %(1) | ||||||||||||||
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| Term B Facility due September 12, 2029 | SOFR + %(2) | ||||||||||||||||
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Extended Term A Facility due March 27, 2031 | SOFR + %(3) | ||||||||||||||||
| Incremental Term B Facility due April 16, 2032 | SOFR + %(2) | ||||||||||||||||
| % | |||||||||||||||||
| Total principal amount | |||||||||||||||||
| Less: unamortized discount and issuance costs | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||
| Total debt | |||||||||||||||||
| Less: current portion | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||
Total long-term debt | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
(1) Term A Facility due 2027 bore interest at a rate equal to Term SOFR plus a credit spread adjustment (CSA) plus a margin based either on the then-applicable debt rating of our non-credit-enhanced, senior unsecured long-term debt or consolidated adjusted leverage as defined in the underlying loan agreement.
(2) Term B Facility due 2029 and Incremental Term B Facility due 2032 bear interest at a rate equal to Term SOFR plus 1.75 %.
(3) Extended Term A Facility due 2031 bears interest, at our option, at either (x) the base rate plus a margin or (y) the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) plus a margin, in each case determined by the better of (a) our non-credit-enhanced, senior unsecured long-term debt rating and (b) our consolidated adjusted leverage ratio as defined in the underlying loan agreement.
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The interest rates for the outstanding term loans are as follows:
| April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | ||||||||||
| Term A Facility due September 12, 2027 | % | % | |||||||||
| Term B Facility due September 12, 2029 | % | % | |||||||||
| Extended Term A Facility due March 27, 2031 | % | % | |||||||||
| Incremental Term B Facility due April 16, 2032 | % | % | |||||||||
As of April 3, 2026, the future contractual maturities of debt by fiscal year, based on the currently effective stated maturity dates in force and excluding the impact of any earlier maturity that could result from a springing maturity date, are as follows:
| (In millions) | |||||
| 2027 | $ | ||||
| 2028 | |||||
| 2029 | |||||
| 2030 | |||||
| 2031 | |||||
| Thereafter | |||||
| Total future maturities of debt | $ | ||||
Senior credit facilities
On September 12, 2022, we entered into the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (Credit Agreement) with certain financial institutions, in which they agreed to provide us with (i) a $1,500 million revolving credit facility (Revolving Facility), (ii) a $3,910 million term loan A facility (Term A Facility), (iii) a $3,690 million term loan B facility (Term B Facility) and (iv) a $750 million tranche A bridge loan (Bridge Loan) (collectively, the senior credit facilities). The Bridge Loan was undrawn and immediately terminated upon the close of the acquisition of Avast. The Credit Agreement provides that we have the right at any time to request incremental revolving commitments and incremental term loans up to an unlimited amount, subject to certain customary conditions precedent and other provisions. The lenders under these facilities will not be under any obligation to provide any such incremental loans or commitments. We drew down the aggregate principal amounts of the Term A Facility and Term B Facility to finance the cash consideration payable for our acquisition of Avast and to fully repay the outstanding principal and accrued interest of the existing credit facilities at the time. The Credit Agreement replaced the existing credit facilities upon the close of the transaction.
On June 5, 2024, we entered into the First Amendment with certain financial institutions under the Credit Agreement, as amended (Amended Credit Agreement). The First Amendment repriced our Term B Facility interest rate from the applicable benchmark rate plus CSA plus 2.0 % to the applicable benchmark rate plus 1.75 %. Other than as described above, the Revolving Facility and the term loan facilities under the First Amendment continue to have the same terms as provided under the Credit Agreement.
On April 16, 2025, we entered into the Second Amendment with certain financial institutions under the Amended Credit Agreement to fund a portion of the cash consideration paid in connection with our acquisition of MoneyLion, in which they agreed to provide us with a $750 million Incremental Term B loan (Incremental Term B Facility or collectively with the Term B Facility, the Term Loan B Facilities), which matures on April 16, 2032. The Incremental Term B Facility bears interest at the applicable benchmark rate plus 1.75 %.
On March 27, 2026, we entered into the Third Amendment with certain financial institutions under the Amended Credit Agreement. Pursuant to the Third Amendment, we (i) extended the maturity date of the $1,500 million Revolving Facility to March 27, 2031, (ii) established a new $2,741 million term A facility (Extended Term A Facility), the proceeds of which, together with cash on hand, were used to repay in full the Term A Facility and (iii) made certain other changes to the Amended Credit Agreement. The Extended Term A Facility bears interest, at our option, at either (x) the base rate plus a margin or (y) SOFR plus a margin, in each case determined by the better of (a) our non-credit-enhanced, senior unsecured long-term debt rating and (b) our consolidated adjusted leverage ratio as defined in the Third Amendment under the Amended Credit Agreement.
The Term B Facility will mature on September 12, 2029, the Extended Term A Facility and the Revolving Facility will mature on March 27, 2031, and the Incremental Term B Facility will mature on April 16, 2032; the senior credit facilities remain senior secured.
The Extended Term A Facility and the Revolving Facility (contractually maturing on March 27, 2031) are subject to a "springing maturity" provision. Under this provision, the maturity dates of these facilities will be accelerated if we do not maintain a minimum liquidity threshold ahead of our other upcoming debt maturities.
The Springing Maturity Dates are July 1, 2027, June 13, 2029 and July 1, 2030, which are 91 days before the stated maturity of the 6.75 % Senior Notes (due 2027), the Term B Facility and the 7.125 % Senior Notes (due 2030), respectively.
The minimum liquidity threshold requires that unrestricted cash plus unused Revolving Facility commitments, excluding commitments of any defaulting lender, minus specific debt, be at least $640.5 million.
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Before the 6.75 % Senior Notes (due 2027) are refinanced or repaid in full, the debt deduction includes only the aggregate principal amount of the 6.75 % Senior Notes. After that, the debt deduction includes any remaining 6.75 % Senior Notes, the Term B Facilities and the 7.125 % Senior Notes. If we do not satisfy the minimum liquidity threshold on the springing maturity date, the Extended Term A Facility matures on that date.
In connection with the refinancing of our Term A Facility, we wrote off $9 million of unamortized debt issuance costs, which was recognized as a loss on extinguishment of debt during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026. We capitalized approximately $7 million of new debt issuance costs in connection with the Extended Term A Facility and approximately $4 million in connection with the extension of the Revolving Facility, which will be amortized over the respective terms of the new facilities. Additionally, we recognized an immaterial loss on extinguishment of debt related to the Revolving Facility for unamortized issuance costs associated with lenders who exited the facility during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.
The principal amounts of the Extended Term Loan A Facility must be repaid in quarterly installments on the last business day of each calendar quarter equal to 1.25 % of the aggregate principal amount as of the date of the Amended Credit Agreement. The principal amounts of Term Loan B Facilities must be repaid in quarterly installments on the last business day of each calendar quarter equal to 0.25 % of the aggregate principal amount as of the date of the Amended Credit Agreement. Quarterly installment payments commenced on March 31, 2023 for the Term B Facility, on September 30, 2025 for the Incremental Term B Facility and will commence on June 30, 2026 for the Extended Term A Facility. We may voluntarily repay outstanding principal balances under the Revolving Facility and term loan facilities without penalty or premium. As of April 3, 2026, there were no borrowings outstanding under our Revolving Facility; however, from time to time we utilize letters of credit as part of our ordinary course of business. Letters of credit reduce our Revolving Facility commitment amounts. As of April 3, 2026, we had outstanding letters of credit of $5 million.
Debt covenant compliance
The Amended Credit Agreement, which includes our Term Loans and Revolving Facility, contains customary representations and warranties, affirmative and negative covenants. The Revolving Facility and Extended Term A Facility are subject to a covenant that we maintain a consolidated leverage ratio less than or equal to 5.25 to 1.0; provided that such maximum consolidated leverage ratio will increase to 5.75 to 1.0 for the four fiscal quarters ending immediately after we acquire property, business or assets in an aggregate amount greater than $250 million.
In addition, the Amended Credit Agreement contains customary events of default under which our payment obligations may be accelerated, including, among others, non-payment of principal, interest or other amounts when due, inaccuracy of representations and warranties, violation of certain covenants, payment and acceleration cross defaults with certain other indebtedness, certain undischarged judgments, bankruptcy, insolvency or inability to pay debts, change of control, the occurrence of certain events related to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and a change of control event. As of April 3, 2026, we were in compliance with all financial debt covenants.
Senior notes
On September 19, 2022, we issued two series of senior notes, consisting of 6.75 % Senior Notes due 2027 and 7.125 % Senior Notes due 2030, for an aggregate principal of $1,500 million. These notes are senior unsecured obligations that rank equally in right of payment with all of our existing and future senior, unsecured, unsubordinated obligations and may be redeemed at any time, subject to the make-whole provisions contained in the applicable indenture relating to such series of notes. Interest on these series of notes is payable semiannually in arrears on March 31 and September 30 for both the 6.75 % Senior Notes and 7.125 % Senior Notes, commencing on March 31, 2023. The First Call Dates of the 6.75 % Senior Notes due 2027 and 7.125 % Senior Notes due 2030 were September 30, 2024 and September 30, 2025, respectively. On and after the applicable First Call Dates, we may redeem the notes of a series at our option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a set redemption price.
On February 28, 2025, we issued $950 million aggregate principal amount of our 6.25 % Senior Notes due April 1, 2033 (the 6.25 % Senior Notes). The 6.25 % Senior Notes bear interest at a rate of 6.25 % per year, payable semiannually in arrears on April 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning on October 1, 2025. On or after April 1, 2028, we may redeem some or all of the 6.25 % Senior Notes at the applicable redemption prices set forth in the supplemental indenture, plus accrued and unpaid interest.
Note 11. Derivatives
Our primary objective in holding derivatives is to reduce the volatility of earnings and cash flow associated with changes in foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates. These hedging contracts reduce, but do not entirely eliminate, the impact of adverse foreign exchange rate and interest rate movements. We do not use our derivative instruments for speculative trading purposes. By using derivative financial instruments to hedge exposures to changes in foreign exchange and interest rates, we are exposed to credit risk; however, we mitigate this risk by entering into hedging instruments with highly rated institutions that can be expected to fully perform under the terms of the applicable contracts.
Foreign currency exchange forward contracts
We conduct business in numerous currencies throughout our worldwide operations, and our entities hold monetary assets or liabilities, earn revenues, or incur costs in currencies other than each entity’s functional currency. As a result, we are exposed to foreign exchange gains or losses, which impact our operating results. As part of our foreign currency risk mitigation strategy, we have entered into monthly foreign exchange forward contracts to hedge foreign currency balance sheet exposure. These forward contracts are not designated as hedging instruments. We do not hedge our foreign currency exposure in a manner that entirely offsets the effects of changes in foreign exchange rates.
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As of April 3, 2026 and March 28, 2025, the notional amounts of foreign exchange contracts not designated as hedging instruments was $337 million and $230 million, respectively.
Interest rate swap
In March 2023, we entered into interest rate swap agreements to mitigate risks associated with the variable interest rate of our Term A Facility. These pay-fixed, receive-floating rate interest rate swaps have the economic effect of hedging the variability of forecasted interest payments until their maturity. Pursuant to the agreements, we have effectively converted $1 billion of our variable rate borrowings under our Term A Facility to fixed rates, with $500 million at a fixed rate of 3.762 % and $500 million at a fixed rate of 3.55 %. The interest rate swap agreements matured on March 31, 2026.
These arrangements were designated as cash flow hedges for accounting purposes and as such, we recognized the changes in the fair value of these interest rate swaps in Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (AOCI), and the periodic settlements or accrued settlements of the swap were recognized within or against interest expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. Cash flows related to these hedges were classified under operating activities in our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
As of March 28, 2025, the notional amount of interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges was $1,000 million. Due to the maturity of the interest rate swap agreements on March 31, 2026, there was no outstanding notional amount as of April 3, 2026.
Summary
The activity related to our foreign currency exchange forward contracts and interest rate swaps was immaterial as of April 3, 2026 and March 28, 2025, and for fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024.
Note 12. Restructuring and Other Costs
Our restructuring and other costs consist primarily of severance and termination benefits, contract cancellation charges, asset write-offs and impairments and other exit and disposal costs. Severance costs generally include severance payments, outplacement services, health insurance coverage and legal costs. Contract cancellation charges primarily include penalties for early termination of contracts and write-offs of related prepaid assets. Other exit and disposal costs include costs to exit and consolidate facilities in connection with restructuring events.
September 2022 Plan
In connection with our acquisition of Avast, our Board of Directors approved a restructuring plan (the September 2022 Plan) to realize cost savings and operational synergies, which became effective upon the close of acquisition on September 12, 2022. Actions under this plan include the reduction of our workforce, contract terminations, facilities closures, the sale of underutilized facilities and stock-based compensation charges for accelerated equity awards to certain terminated employees. As of April 3, 2026, we have incurred cumulative costs of $138 million related to the September 2022 Plan. The majority of actions under the plan were completed by March 28, 2025. Accordingly, the remaining activity and related accrual balance are not material, and only immaterial additional expenses were incurred during fiscal 2026.
April 2025 Plan
In connection with our acquisition of MoneyLion, our Board of Directors approved a restructuring plan (the April 2025 Plan). Actions under this plan include the reduction of our workforce, contract terminations, facilities consolidation, asset write-offs and other restructuring costs. The total estimated cost of the plan is approximately $30 million, of which $29 million has been incurred to date under the April 2025 Plan. As of April 3, 2026, we had a restructuring liability of $10 million related to the April 2025 Plan.
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Restructuring summary
Rollforwards of our activities and liability balances related to our April 2025 Plan are presented in the tables below:
| (In millions) | Liability Balance as of March 28, 2025 | Net Charges | Cash Payments | Non-Cash Items | Liability Balance as of April 3, 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Severance and termination benefit costs | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Contract cancellation charges | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation charges | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other exit and disposal costs | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The restructuring liabilities are included in Other current liabilities in our Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Restructuring and other costs summary
Our restructuring and other costs are presented in the table below:
| Year Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Severance and termination benefit costs | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Contract cancellation charges | |||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation charges | |||||||||||||||||
| Asset write-offs and impairments | |||||||||||||||||
| Other exit and disposal costs | |||||||||||||||||
| Total restructuring and other | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Our restructuring and other costs related to the September 2022 Plan are presented in the table below:
| Year Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Severance and termination benefit costs | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
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| Asset write-offs | |||||||||||||||||
| Other exit and disposal costs | |||||||||||||||||
| Total restructuring and other | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Our restructuring and other costs related to the April 2025 Plan are presented in the table below:
| Year Ended | |||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | ||||
| Severance and termination benefit costs | $ | ||||
| Contract cancellation charges | |||||
| Stock-based compensation charges | |||||
| Other exit and disposal costs | |||||
| Total restructuring and other costs | $ | ||||
Occasionally, we incur costs related to past restructuring plans. These charges were immaterial during fiscal 2026.
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Note 13. Income Taxes
The components of our income (loss) before income taxes are as follows:
| Year Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Domestic | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| International | |||||||||||||||||
Total income (loss) before income taxes | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
The components of income tax expense (benefit) are as follows:
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| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Current: | |||||||||||||||||
| Federal | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
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| International | |||||||||||||||||
| Total current income tax expense (benefit) | |||||||||||||||||
| Deferred: | |||||||||||||||||
| Federal | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||
| State | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| International | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||
| Total deferred income tax expense (benefit) | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||
| Total income tax expense (benefit) | $ | $ | $ | ( | |||||||||||||
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The difference between our effective income tax rate and the federal statutory income tax rate, following the adoption of ASU 2023-09, is as follows:
Year Ended April 3, 2026 | |||||||||||
(In millions, except for percentages) | $ | % | |||||||||
| Federal statutory tax rate | $ | % | |||||||||
State and local income taxes, net of federal income tax effect (1) | % | ||||||||||
| Foreign tax effects: | |||||||||||
| Ireland | |||||||||||
| Statutory rate difference between Ireland and United States | ( | ( | % | ||||||||
| Nondeductible interest | % | ||||||||||
| Other | % | ||||||||||
| Czech Republic | % | ||||||||||
| Other foreign jurisdictions | 0 | % | |||||||||
| Effect of changes in tax laws or rates enacted in the current period | % | ||||||||||
| Effect of cross-border tax laws: | |||||||||||
| Global intangible low-taxed income | % | ||||||||||
| Subpart F income | ( | ( | % | ||||||||
| Other | % | ||||||||||
| Tax credits | |||||||||||
| Foreign Tax Credits | ( | ( | % | ||||||||
| Other Tax Credits | ( | % | |||||||||
| Changes in valuation allowances | % | ||||||||||
| Nontaxable or nondeductible items: | |||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation expense | % | ||||||||||
| Other | % | ||||||||||
| Changes in unrecognized tax benefits | % | ||||||||||
| Other adjustments | ( | ( | % | ||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | % | |||||||||
(1) The states and local jurisdictions that contribute to the majority (greater than 50%) of the tax effect in this category include California, Virginia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.
As previously disclosed for fiscal 2025 and 2024, prior to the adoption of ASU 2023-09, the difference between our effective income tax and the U.S. federal statutory income tax based on the 21% rate is as follows:
| Year Ended | |||||||||||
| (In millions) | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | |||||||||
| Federal statutory tax expense (benefit) | $ | $ | |||||||||
| State taxes, net of federal benefit | |||||||||||
| Foreign earnings taxed at other than the federal rate | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Nondeductible expenses | |||||||||||
| Federal research and development credit | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Valuation allowance increase (decrease) | ( | ||||||||||
| Change in unrecognized tax benefits | ( | ||||||||||
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| Stock-based compensation | |||||||||||
| US tax on foreign earnings | |||||||||||
| Return to provision adjustment | |||||||||||
| Foreign exchange loss (gain) | ( | ||||||||||
| Capital loss | ( | ||||||||||
| Legal entity restructuring | ( | ||||||||||
| Other, net | ( | ||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||
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The principal components of deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Deferred tax assets: | |||||||||||
| Tax credit carryforwards | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Net operating loss carryforwards of acquired companies | |||||||||||
| Interest | |||||||||||
| Other accruals and reserves not currently tax deductible | |||||||||||
| Goodwill | |||||||||||
| Capitalized research and experimental expenditures | |||||||||||
| Loss on investments not currently tax deductible | |||||||||||
| Other | |||||||||||
| Gross deferred tax assets | |||||||||||
| Valuation allowance | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance | |||||||||||
| Deferred tax liabilities: | |||||||||||
| Intangible assets | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Unremitted earnings of foreign subsidiaries | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Other | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Deferred tax liabilities | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Net deferred tax assets (liabilities) | $ | $ | |||||||||
Deferred income taxes reflect the net effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and their basis for income tax purposes and the tax effects of net operating losses and tax credit carryforwards.
The valuation allowance provided against our deferred tax assets as of April 3, 2026 of $184 million is provided primarily against state and foreign capital loss carryforwards and certain tax credits.
As of April 3, 2026, we have U.S. federal net operating losses attributable to various acquired companies of approximately $535 million, of which $23 million begins to expire in fiscal 2027 and $512 million has an indefinite life. The net operating loss carryforwards are subject to an annual limitation under U.S. federal tax regulations but are expected to be fully realized. Furthermore, we have U.S. state net operating loss carryforwards attributable to various acquired companies of approximately $76 million. If not used, our U.S. state net operating losses will expire between fiscal 2028 and 2033. In addition, we have foreign net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $8 million.
In assessing the realizability of our gross deferred tax assets, we consider both the positive and negative evidence of future taxable income to support utilization. We considered the following: historical cumulative book income, as measured by the current and prior two years; historical taxable income; and future reversals of taxable temporary differences. The valuation allowance for deferred tax assets as of April 3, 2026 was $184 million. The valuation allowance was primarily related to tax attribute carryforwards that, in the judgment of management, are not more likely than not to be realized.
In the second quarter of fiscal 2024, as part of the Avast integration plan, which geographically realigned and simplified our business, we undertook a legal entity and operational restructuring. As part of that process, we distributed certain assets within the legal entity operating structure and as a result, we recorded a net tax benefit of $285 million in fiscal 2024. Differences between the final outcome and recorded amounts will impact the provision for income taxes in the period in which such a determination is made and could have a material impact on our Consolidated Balance Sheets and Statements of Operations in future years.
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The aggregate changes in the balance of gross unrecognized tax benefits were as follows:
| Year Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Balance at beginning of year | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Settlements with tax authorities | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||
| Lapse of statute of limitations | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||
| Increase related to prior period tax positions | |||||||||||||||||
| Decrease related to prior period tax positions | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||
| Increase related to current year tax positions | |||||||||||||||||
| Increase (decrease) related to foreign currency exchange rates | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Balance at end of year | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
There was a change of $46 million in gross unrecognized tax benefits during the year ended April 3, 2026, as disclosed above. This gross liability does not include offsetting tax benefits associated with the correlative effects of potential transfer pricing adjustments, interest deductions and state income taxes.
Of the total unrecognized tax benefits at April 3, 2026, $994 million, if recognized, would affect our effective tax rate.
We recognize interest and/or penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense. At April 3, 2026, before any tax benefits, we had $433 million of accrued interest and penalties on unrecognized tax benefits. Interest included in our provision for income taxes was an expense of approximately $115 million for fiscal 2026. If the accrued interest and penalties do not ultimately become payable, amounts accrued will be reduced in the period that such determination is made and reflected as a reduction of the overall income tax provision.
We file income tax returns in the U.S. and in many U.S. state and foreign jurisdictions. Our most significant tax jurisdictions are U.S. federal, Ireland, and the Czech Republic. Our tax filings remain subject to examination by applicable tax authorities for a certain length of time following the tax year to which those filings relate. Our fiscal years 2018 through 2025 remain subject to examination by the IRS for U.S. federal tax purposes. Our 2022 through 2025 fiscal years remain subject to examination by the appropriate governmental agencies for Irish tax purposes. Our 2017 through 2025 fiscal years remain subject to examination by the Czech tax authorities.
We continue to monitor the progress of ongoing income tax controversies and the impact, if any, of the anticipated tolling of applicable statutes of limitations across various taxing jurisdictions.
We provide U.S. income taxes on the earnings of foreign subsidiaries unless the subsidiaries’ earnings are considered permanently reinvested outside the U.S. or are exempted from further taxation. As of April 3, 2026, the tax liability recorded on the undistributed earnings is approximately $4 million.
The components of income taxes paid (received), net, is as follows:
| (In millions) | Year Ended April 3, 2026 | ||||
| U.S. federal | $ | ||||
| U.S. state and local | |||||
| Foreign | |||||
| Ireland | |||||
| Czech Republic | |||||
| Other | |||||
| Total income taxes paid (received), net | $ | ||||
Note 14. Stockholders' Equity
Dividends
On May 7, 2026, we announced that our Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.125 per share of common stock to be paid in June 2026. All shares of common stock issued and outstanding and all RSUs and PRUs as of the record date will be entitled to the dividend and dividend equivalent rights (DERs), respectively, which will be paid out if and when the underlying shares are released. However, the 4 million unvested RSUs assumed under the MoneyLion Inc. Amended and Restated Omnibus Incentive Plan (the MoneyLion Plan) will not be entitled to DERs. See Note 15 for further information about these equity awards. Any future dividends and DERs will be subject to the approval of our Board of Directors.
CVRs
In connection with the acquisition of MoneyLion, we issued 12 million equity-classified CVRs to MoneyLion shareholders and optionholders. The CVRs entitle holders to receive a contingent payment of $23.00 per CVR, payable in shares of Gen’s common stock, if our average volume-weighted average share price equals or exceeds $37.50 over any 30 consecutive trading days from December 10, 2024 until April 17, 2027. The CVRs were recorded as a component of additional paid-in capital at a fair value of approximately $73 million as of the acquisition date, based on a Monte-Carlo simulation valuation model. As of April 3,
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2026, there were 12 million CVRs outstanding. Refer to Note 4 for additional information regarding the CVRs and our acquisition of MoneyLion.
Stock repurchase program
Under our stock repurchase program, we may purchase shares of our outstanding common stock on the open market and through accelerated stock repurchase transactions. As of April 3, 2026, we had $2,094 million remaining under the authorization to be completed in future periods.
The following table summarizes activity related to our stock repurchase program during the fiscal years ended April 3, 2026 and March 28, 2025:
| Year Ended | |||||||||||
(In millions, except per share amounts) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| Number of shares repurchased | |||||||||||
| Average price per share | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Aggregate purchase price | $ | $ | |||||||||
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of taxes, consisted of foreign currency translation adjustments and net unrealized gain (loss) on derivative instruments:
| (In millions) | Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments | Net Unrealized Gain (Loss) On Interest Rate Derivative | Total | ||||||||||||||
| Balance as of March 29, 2024 | $ | ( | $ | $ | |||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive income (loss), net of taxes | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||
| Balance as of March 28, 2025 | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive income (loss), net of taxes | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Balance as of April 3, 2026 | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Note 15. Stock-Based Compensation and Other Benefit Plans
Stock incentive plans
The purpose of our stock incentive plans is to attract, retain and motivate eligible persons whose present and potential contributions are important to our success by offering them an opportunity to participate in our future performance through equity awards. We maintain the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (the 2013 Plan), under which awards may be granted to employees, officers, directors, consultants, independent contractors, and advisors. As amended, our stockholders have approved and reserved 112 million shares of common stock for issuance under the 2013 Plan. Stock options granted under the 2013 Plan expire no more than 10 years from the date of grant.
In connection with our acquisition of MoneyLion, all the outstanding RSUs and certain PSUs of the MoneyLion Plan were assumed and converted into 4 million unvested RSUs. The assumed and converted awards generally retain the terms and conditions under which they were originally granted. Upon vesting, the assumed and converted RSUs and any additional shares granted will settle into shares of our common stock. See Note 4 for further information about this business combination.
As of April 3, 2026, 26 million shares remained available for future grant, calculated using the maximum potential shares that could be earned and issued at vesting.
RSUs
| (In millions, except per share and year data) | Number of Shares | Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Value | |||||||||
| Outstanding as of March 28, 2025 | $ | ||||||||||
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| Vested | ( | $ | |||||||||
| Forfeited | ( | $ | |||||||||
| Outstanding as of April 3, 2026 | $ | ||||||||||
RSUs generally vest over a three-year period. The weighted-average grant date fair value per share of RSUs granted during fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024 was $26.88 , $24.06 and $17.42 , respectively. The total fair value of RSUs released in fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024 was $159 million, $79 million and $85 million, respectively, which represents the market value of our common stock on the date the RSUs were released.
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PRUs
| (In millions, except per share and year data) | Number of Shares | Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Value | |||||||||
| Outstanding and unvested as of March 28, 2025 | $ | ||||||||||
Granted (1) | $ | ||||||||||
Vested | ( | $ | |||||||||
Forfeited (2) | ( | $ | |||||||||
| Outstanding and unvested as of April 3, 2026 | $ | ||||||||||
(1) Includes approximately 1.5 million additional performance shares issued based on above-target payouts.
(2) Includes approximately 2 million additional performance shares forfeited based on below-target payouts.
The total fair value of PRUs released in fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024 was $34 million, $24 million and $20 million, respectively, which represents the market value of our common stock on the date the PRUs were released.
We grant PRUs to certain executives. These awards generally have a three-year vesting period. PRUs granted in fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024 include a combination of our company’s performance and market conditions. Performance conditions are based on the achievement of specified non-GAAP financial or non-financial metrics over - to four-year periods, depending on the nature of the award. Market conditions are based on the Company’s relative total shareholder return over - or five-year periods. Depending on the level of achievement of the applicable performance and market conditions, between 0 % and 200 % (or higher for certain awards) of target shares may be earned.
Valuation of PRUs
The fair value of each PRU that does not contain a market condition is equal to the market value of our common stock on the date of grant. The fair value of each PRU that contains a market condition is estimated using the Monte Carlo simulation model. The valuation and the underlying weighted-average assumptions for PRUs are summarized below:
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| Weighted-average grant date fair value of PRUs | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
ESPP
Under our 2008 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, employees may annually contribute up to 10 % of their gross compensation, subject to certain limitations, to purchase shares of our common stock at a discounted price. Eligible employees are offered shares through a 12 -month offering period, which consists of two consecutive 6 -month purchase periods, at 85 % of the lower of either the fair market value on the purchase date or the fair market value at the beginning of the offering period.
As of April 3, 2026, 41 million shares have been issued under this plan and 29 million shares remained available for future issuance.
The following table summarizes activity related to the purchase rights issued under the ESPP:
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| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
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| Proceeds from issuance of shares | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
The fair value of each stock purchase right under our ESPP is estimated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The weighted-average grant date fair value related to rights to acquire shares of common stock under our ESPP in fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024 was $6.62 per share, $6.77 per share and $5.45 per share, respectively.
Dividend equivalent rights (DERs)
Our RSUs and PRUs, except for the 4 million unvested RSUs assumed under the MoneyLion Plan, contain DERs that entitles the recipient of an award to receive cash dividend payments when the associated award is released. The amount of DER equals to the cumulated dividends on the issued number of common stock that would have been payable since the date the associated award was granted. As of April 3, 2026 and March 28, 2025, current dividends payable related to DER was $9 million and $5 million, respectively, recorded as part of Other current liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets, and long-term dividends payable related to DER was $4 million and $5 million, respectively, recorded as part of Other long-term liabilities.
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Stock-based award modifications
There were no no material stock-based award modifications in fiscal 2025.
Stock-based compensation expense
Total stock-based compensation expense and the related income tax benefit recognized for all of our equity incentive plans in our Consolidated Statements of Operations were as follows:
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| Total stock-based compensation expense | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Income tax benefit for stock-based compensation expense | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||||||
As of April 3, 2026, the total unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to our unvested stock-based awards was $361 million, which will be recognized over an estimated weighted-average amortization period of 2.5 years.
Other employee benefit plans
401(k) plan
We maintain a salary deferral 401(k) plan for all of our U.S. employees. This plan allows employees to contribute their pretax salary up to the maximum dollar limitation prescribed by the Internal Revenue Code. We match the first 3.5 % of a participant’s eligible compensation up to $6,000 in a calendar year. Our employer matching contributions to the 401(k) plan were as follows:
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| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| 401(k) matching contributions | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Note 16. Net Income (Loss) Per Share
Basic income per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net income per share also includes the incremental effect of dilutive potentially issuable common shares outstanding. Dilutive potentially issuable common shares include the dilutive effect of employee equity awards. The 12 million CVRs are excluded from the diluted net income per share calculation as the contingent conditions for issuance of common shares have not yet been met within the period.
The components of basic and diluted net income (loss) per share are as follows:
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| (In millions, except per share amounts) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
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| Net income per share - diluted | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
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Note 17. Segment and Geographic Information
Our Chief Operating Decision Maker (CODM) is our Chief Executive Officer, who manages and reviews financial information presented on an operating segment basis for the purpose of making decisions and assessing financial performance. The CODM assesses operating performance of each segment based on regularly provided segment revenue, segment operating income (loss) and margin, by comparing actual margin results to historical results and previously forecasted financial information. Operating results by segment include costs or expenses directly attributable to each segment, and costs or expenses that are leveraged across our portfolio and therefore allocated between our two segments. Our CODM reviews expenses on a consolidated basis and the expenses associated with our corporate investments.
Prior to fiscal 2026, we operated as one reportable segment, with consolidated net income (loss) serving as the primary measure of segment profit or loss. Subsequent to the completion of our acquisition of MoneyLion on April 17, 2025, our portfolio now spans two reportable segments, Cyber Safety Platform and Trust-Based Solutions, with the primary measure of segment profit or loss being updated to segment operating income (loss).
Cyber Safety Platform includes our security, comprehensive suites, and privacy products, which deliver technology solutions and superior threat protection to help people navigate the digital world, securely, privately and with confidence. Trust-Based Solutions includes our identity, reputation, and financial wellness products, which provide innovative solutions and insights that empower consumers to manage their identity, reputation and finances confidently.
The “Corporate” category includes expenses that are not allocated to either Cyber Safety Platform or Trust-Based Solutions for purposes of making operating decisions or assessing segment-level financial performance. The expenses include restructuring and other costs, acquisition and integration costs, litigation settlement charges, and amortization of intangible assets. Our operating segments are not evaluated using asset information. Our CODM delegates the review of the segment performance to the general manager of each respective segment. There are no intersegment transactions. The accounting policies for segment reporting are the same as for our consolidated financial statements.
The following table presents details of our reportable segments and the “Corporate” category:
Cyber Safety Platform | Trust-Based Solutions | Corporate | Consolidated | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Net Revenues | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
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Operating income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year Ended March 28, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Net Revenues | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
Other segment items (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Operating income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Net Revenues | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
Other segment items (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
(1) Other segment items for our Cyber Safety Platform and Trust-Based Solutions include product costs, infrastructure and facilities expense, and compensation and benefits excluding stock-based compensation and expenses identified in “Corporate”.
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The table below are the reconciling items included in “Corporate” category:
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| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
Amortization of intangible assets | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
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Unallocated cost of revenue and operating expenses | ( | ||||||||||||||||
Total | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Geographic information
Net revenues by geography are based on the billing addresses of our customers. The following table represents net revenues by geographic area for the periods presented:
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| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | March 29, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Americas | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
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Total net revenues | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
Note: The Americas include U.S., Canada, and Latin America; EMEA includes Europe, Middle East, and Africa; APJ includes Asia Pacific and Japan.
Revenues from customers inside the U.S. were $3,309 million, $2,358 million and $2,265 million during fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024, respectively. No other individual country accounted for more than 10% of revenues.
The table below represents cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash held in the U.S. and internationally in various foreign subsidiaries:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| U.S. | $ | $ | |||||||||
| International | |||||||||||
| Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | $ | $ | |||||||||
The table below represents our property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization, by geographic area, based on the physical location of the asset, at the end of each period presented:
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | March 28, 2025 | |||||||||
| U.S. | $ | $ | |||||||||
Other countries (1) | |||||||||||
| Total property and equipment, net | $ | $ | |||||||||
(1) No individual country represented more than 10% of the respective totals.
Significant customers and e-commerce partners
In fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024, no individual end-user customer accounted for 10% or more of our net revenues. See Note 1 for e-commerce partners that accounted for over 10% of our total accounts receivable.
Note 18. Commitments and Contingencies
Purchase obligations
We have purchase obligations that are associated with agreements for purchases of goods or services. Management believes that cancellation of these contracts is unlikely, and we expect to make future cash payments according to the contract terms.
The following reflects estimated future payments for purchase obligations by fiscal year. The amount of purchase obligations reflects estimated future payments as of April 3, 2026.
| (In millions) | April 3, 2026 | ||||
| 2027 | $ | ||||
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| 2030 | |||||
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Indemnifications
In the ordinary course of business, we may provide indemnifications of varying scope and terms to customers, vendors, lessors, business partners, subsidiaries and other parties with respect to certain matters, including, but not limited to, product warranties and losses arising out of our breach of agreements or representations and warranties made by us, including claims alleging that our software infringes on the intellectual property rights of a third party. In addition, our bylaws contain indemnification obligations to our directors, officers, employees, and agents, and we have entered into indemnification agreements with our directors and certain of our officers to give such directors and officers additional contractual assurances regarding the scope of the indemnification set forth in our bylaws and to provide additional procedural protections. We maintain director and officer insurance, which may cover certain liabilities arising from our obligation to indemnify our directors and officers. It is not possible to determine the aggregate maximum potential loss under these indemnification agreements due to the limited history of prior indemnification claims and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular agreement. Such indemnification agreements might not be subject to maximum loss clauses. We monitor the conditions that are subject to indemnification to identify if a loss has occurred. Historically, we have not incurred material costs as a result of obligations under these agreements, and we have not accrued any material liabilities related to such indemnification obligations in our Consolidated Financial Statements.
Litigation contingencies
From time to time, we are involved in legal proceedings, including, but not limited to, regulatory proceedings, claims, mediations, arbitrations and litigation, incidental to our business. We evaluate contingent liabilities including threatened or pending litigation in accordance with the authoritative guidance on contingencies. We assess the likelihood of any adverse judgments or outcomes from potential claims or proceedings for accrual or disclosure in our Consolidated Financial Statements. A determination of the amount of an accrual required, if any, for these contingencies is made after the analysis of each separate matter. Because of uncertainties related to these matters, we base our estimates on the information available at the time of our assessment. As additional information becomes available, we reassess the potential liability related to our pending claims and litigation and may revise our estimates and disclosures. We classify our accruals for litigation contingencies in our Consolidated Balance Sheets as part of Other current liabilities or Other long-term liabilities based on when we expect to pay the claim, if at all. If the period of expected payment is within one year, we classify the amount as short-term; otherwise, it is classified as long-term. The exact timing of payment is subject to uncertainty and could change significantly from our estimated payment period.
Trustees of the University of Columbia in the City of New York v. NortonLifeLock
As previously disclosed, on May 2, 2022, a jury returned its verdict in a patent infringement case filed in 2013 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The jury found that our Norton Security products and Symantec Endpoint Protection products (the latter of which were sold by us to Broadcom as part of an Asset Purchase Agreement dated November 4, 2019) willfully infringed two patents through the use of SONAR/BASH behavioral protection technology. The jury awarded damages in the amount of $185 million. Columbia did not seek injunctive relief against us. We believe that we have ceased the use of the technology found by the jury to infringe. The jury also found that we did not fraudulently conceal its prosecution of a third patent but did find that two Columbia professors were coinventors of this patent. No damages were awarded related to this patent.
On September 30, 2023, the court entered its judgment, which awarded Columbia (i) enhanced damages of 2.6 times the jury award; (ii) prejudgment interest, post-judgment interest, and supplemental damages to be calculated in accordance with the parties’ previous agreement; and (iii) attorneys’ fees subject to the parties meeting and conferring as to amount. We complied with the court’s order and submitted a stipulation regarding the final calculations of all outstanding interest, royalties and attorneys’ fees. We posted the required surety bond and appealed the judgment to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Federal Circuit issued its decision on appeal and remanded the case to the district court for further proceedings, including consideration of whether Columbia’s patents are patent-eligible and if the patent claims are determined to be eligible, to reduce the damages award to eliminate the royalty based on foreign sales and reconsider its attorneys’ fees and enhanced damages decisions. At this time, our current estimate of probable losses from this matter, within a range of potential outcomes, is approximately $254 million, a reduction of $354 million in our fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, which is accrued and recorded as part of Other long-term liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. There is a reasonable possibility that a loss may be incurred in excess of our accrual for this matter; however, such incremental loss cannot be reasonably estimated.
Jumpshot Matters
At the end of 2019, Avast came under media scrutiny for provision of Avast customer data to its data analytics subsidiary Jumpshot Inc. Jumpshot was a subsidiary of Avast with its own management team and technical experts. Avast announced the decision to terminate its provision of data to, and wind down, Jumpshot on January 30, 2020. As Avast has previously disclosed, it has been in communication with certain regulators and authorities prior to completion of our acquisition of Avast.
On December 23, 2019, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to Avast seeking documents and information related to its privacy practices, including Jumpshot's past use of consumer information that was provided to it by Avast. Avast responded cooperatively to the CID and related follow-up requests from the FTC. We engaged in ongoing negotiations with the FTC staff and reached a negotiated agreement on the terms of a Consent Decree resolving this investigation, the terms of which are now final. This includes a provision for a non-material amount of monetary relief, which has been paid.
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On February 27, 2020, the Czech Office for Personal Data Protection (the Czech DPA) initiated offense proceedings concerning Avast`s practices with respect to Jumpshot. The Czech DPA issued a decision in March 2022 finding that Avast had violated the GDPR and issued a fine of CZK 351 million (approximately $16 million). Avast appealed the decision, which was affirmed by the Czech DPA on April 10, 2024. Avast paid the fine levied by the DPA. On June 15, 2024, Avast brought a judicial action in the administrative law court challenging the decision of the Czech DPA. On October 7, 2025, the court affirmed the decision regarding liability; however, it vacated the DPA’s decision regarding the determination of the fine. Both the DPA and the Company have filed cassation complaints with the Supreme Administrative Law Court. At this stage, the fine has been returned but the matter remains pending. We have accrued an immaterial amount as our current estimate of probable loss from this matter.
On March 27, 2024, Stichting CUIC – Privacy Foundation for Collective Redress, a Dutch foundation (the Foundation), filed its writ of summons to initiate a collective action. The Foundation has asserted it represents the interests of Avast customers in the Netherlands whose data was provided to Jumpshot and that by doing so Avast violated the requirements of the GDPR and other provisions in Dutch and European Union privacy and consumer law, entitling those customers to damages and other compensation, all of which we dispute. No specific amount of damages has been alleged to date. At this stage, the matter remains pending, and we are unable to assess whether any material loss or adverse effect is probable or estimate the range of any potential loss.
On April 18, 2024, we received a letter before action from counsel in the United Kingdom asserting it may bring a representative action on behalf of a class of Avast users in the United Kingdom and Wales for breach of contract and misuse of private information and seeking unspecified damages and a permanent injunction. We have since entered into a final settlement agreement resolving this matter. The settlement amount is immaterial, and the resolution did not have, and is not expected to have, a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
The outcome of the regulatory proceedings, government enforcement actions and litigation is difficult to predict, and the cost to defend, settle or otherwise resolve these matters may be significant. Plaintiffs or regulatory agencies or authorities in these matters may seek recovery of large or indeterminate amounts or seek to impose sanctions, including significant monetary penalties, as well as equitable relief. The monetary and other impact of these litigations, proceedings or actions may remain unknown for substantial periods of time. Further, an unfavorable resolution of litigations, proceedings or actions could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations and cash flows. The amount of time that will be required to resolve these matters is unpredictable, and these matters may divert management’s attention from the day-to-day operations of our business. Any future investigations or additional lawsuits may also adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
MALKA Seller Members Litigation
On July 21, 2023, Jeffrey Frommer, Lyusen Krubich, Daniel Fried and Pat Capra, the former equity owners of MALKA, a subsidiary of MoneyLion (collectively, the “Seller Members”), brought a civil action in the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) against MoneyLion Technologies Inc. alleging, among other things, breaches of the Membership Interest Purchase Agreement governing the acquisition of MALKA. MoneyLion filed counterclaims against the Sellers Members alleging, among other things, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, conversion, breach of fiduciary duties and breach of contract. The court issued its decision on September 29, 2025, finding that MoneyLion breached the parties’ agreements and awarding the Sellers Members damages and attorneys’ fees and costs, for which we have accrued $48 million as a pre-acquisition contingency in Other long-term obligations in our Consolidated Balance Sheet. On October 28, 2025, MoneyLion filed a notice of appeal. See Note 4 for details regarding our purchase price allocation for our acquisition of MoneyLion.
NYAG Litigation
On April 14, 2025, the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York filed a civil action in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, against MoneyLion Inc. The complaint alleges, among other things, that MoneyLion’s earned wage access product violates New York’s civil and criminal usury laws and asserts claims of fraud, deceptive, and false advertising practices under state law, as well as abusive and deceptive practices under the federal Consumer Financial Protection Act. On April 28, 2025, the Attorney General filed an amended complaint, adding MoneyLion Technologies Inc. and ML Plus LLC as defendants. The Company maintains that the Attorney General’s claims are without merit and is vigorously defending against the lawsuit. At this stage, the matter remains pending, and we are unable to assess whether any material loss or adverse effect is probable or estimate the range of any potential loss.
Other
We are involved in a number of other judicial, arbitrable, administrative proceedings and government inquiries that are incidental to our business, including certain matters relating to products and services offered in the ordinary course of business subject to lending and other consumer laws and regulations. Although adverse decisions (or settlements) may occur in one or more of the cases, it is not possible to estimate the possible loss or losses from each of these cases. The final resolution of these lawsuits, individually or in the aggregate, is not expected to have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.
During fiscal 2026, 2025 and 2024, we incurred(released) $(334 ) million, $132 million and $418 million, respectively, related to the estimated accrual and final resolutions of our litigation contingencies in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
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Note 19. Subsequent Events
Fiscal 2027 Restructuring Program
On May 5, 2026, our Board of Directors approved a restructuring plan as part of our ongoing internal transformation efforts, including increased adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. The initiative is intended to streamline operations and better align resources with strategic priorities.
We estimate that we will incur total costs of approximately $50 million in connection with the plan, consisting of employee severance and termination benefits, facilities consolidation, contract termination and other restructuring costs. Implementation is expected over the next twelve months, and estimates remain subject to change.
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(2) Financial Statement Schedules
Schedule II
GEN DIGITAL INC.
VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
All financial statement schedules have been omitted, since the required information is not applicable or is not present in material amounts, and/or changes to such amounts are immaterial to require submission of the schedule, or because the information required is included in our Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto included in this Form 10-K.
(3) Exhibits
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| 2.01(§) | 8-K | 000-17781 | 2.01 | 8/8/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2.02(§) | 8-K | 000-17781 | 2.01 | 4/17/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3.01 | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 3.01 | 11/9/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3.02 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 3.01 | 10/16/2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3.03 | 10-K | 000-17781 | 3.06 | 5/28/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.01 | 10-K | 000-17781 | 4.01 | 5/15/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.02 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 4.01 | 2/9/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.03 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 4.02 | 2/9/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.04 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 4.01 | 9/19/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.05 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 4.02 | 9/19/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.06 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 4.01 | 2/28/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.01(*) | 8-K | 000-17781 | 10.03 | 3/7/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.02(*) | 10-K | 000-17781 | 10.05 | 5/24/2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 10.03(*) | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 10.01 | 11/1/2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.04(*) | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 10.06 | 2/7/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.05(*) | DEF 14A | 000-17781 | Exhibit B | 7/26/2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 10.07(*) | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.08(*) | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.09(*) | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.10(*) | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.11 | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 4.03 | 8/5/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.12 | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 4.05 | 8/5/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.13 | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 4.02 | 8/5/2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Exhibit Description | Form | File No. | Exhibit | Filing Date | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.14 | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 4.01 | 2/3/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.15 | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 4.02 | 2/3/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.16 | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 4.03 | 2/3/2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.17(*) | 8-K | 000-17781 | 10.03 | 10/25/2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.18(*) | 10-K | 000-17781 | 10.18 | 5/21/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.19(*) | 10-K | 000-17781 | 10.19 | 5/21/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.20(†) | S-1/A | 333-83777 | 10.27 | 8/6/1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.21 | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 10.01 | 11/16/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibit Number | Incorporated by Reference | Filed Herewith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibit Description | Form | File No. | Exhibit | Filing Date | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.22 | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 10.02 | 11/16/2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.23 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 10.01 | 11/4/2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.24 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 10.01 | 7/8/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.25 | 10-K | 000-17781 | 10.31 | 5/21/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.26 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 10.02 | 9/3/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.27 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 10.01 | 9/3/2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.28++ | 8-K | 000-17781 | 10.01 | 9/12/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.29(*) | S-8 | 000-17781 | 99.01 | 9/12/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.30(*) | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 10.01 | 8/7/2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.31 | 10-Q | 000-17781 | 10.01 | 8/5/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibit Number | Incorporated by Reference | Filed Herewith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibit Description | Form | File No. | Exhibit | Filing Date | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.32 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 10.02 | 4/17/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.33 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 10.01 | 4/17/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.34 | 8-K | 000-17781 | 99.01 | 4/17/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.35 | 10-Q | 001-42603 | 10.01 | 8/13/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.36 | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.37 | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10.38 | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19.01 | 10-Q | 001-42603 | 19.01 | 11/7/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21.01 | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23.01 | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 31.01 | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 31.02 | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 32.01(††) | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 32.02(††) | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 97.01 | 10-K | 001-42603 | 97.01 | 5/15/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibit Number | Incorporated by Reference | Filed Herewith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibit Description | Form | File No. | Exhibit | Filing Date | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 101.00 | The following financial information from Gen Digital Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 3, 2026 are formatted in iXBRL (Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language): (i) Consolidated Balance Sheets, (ii) Consolidated Statements of Operations, (iii) Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss), (iv) Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit), (vi) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, and (vi) Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements, tagged as blocks of text and including detailed tags. | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 104.00 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101). | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| * | Indicates a management contract, compensatory plan or arrangement. | ||||
| § | The exhibits and schedules to this agreement have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The Registrant agrees to furnish supplementally copies of any such exhibits and schedules to the SEC upon request. | ||||
| † | Filed by Veritas Software Corporation. | ||||
| †† | This exhibit is being furnished, rather than filed, and shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing, in accordance with Item 601 of Regulation S-K. | ||||
| + | Certain portions of this document that constitute confidential information have been redacted in accordance with Regulations S-K, Item 601(b)(10). | ||||
| ++ | Certain schedules and similar attachments to the exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Regulation S-K Item 601(a)(5) | ||||
Item 16. Form 10-K Summary
None.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Mountain View, State of California, on the 21th day of May 2026.
GEN DIGITAL INC. | ||||||||
| By: | /s/ Vincent Pilette | |||||||
Vincent Pilette Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board | ||||||||
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated below.
| Signature | Title | Date | ||||||||||||
| /s/ Vincent Pilette | Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board (Principal Executive Officer) | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Vincent Pilette | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Natalie Derse | Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Natalie Derse | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Sue Barsamian | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Sue Barsamian | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Pavel Baudis | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Pavel Baudis | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Eric K. Brandt | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Eric K. Brandt | ||||||||||||||
/s/ John C. Chrystal | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
John C. Chrystal | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Nora Denzel | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Nora Denzel | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Emily Heath | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Emily Heath | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Sherrese M. Smith | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Sherrese M. Smith | ||||||||||||||
| /s/ Ondrej Vlcek | Director | May 21, 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Ondrej Vlcek | ||||||||||||||
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