Insider trade

Director sold ~$2.8M of GEN shares in the open market

Traded Aug 19, 2026 · Filed Aug 21, 2026

Gen DigitalGEN

~$2.8M
Reported value · 100K sh @ $28.00: 3.73M
Holds after · shares reported: -19.2%
stock since the trade · S&P 500 -0.7%, $27.54 → $22.25 on Oct 1

Why it stands out

A board member of Gen Digital sold $2.8M of Gen Digital shares. Nobody planned it ahead of time.

Written from the filing's own figures. OQRO describes what was reported and never tells you what to buy or sell

View the official recordSEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

All the details

Dates, kept separate

Transaction date: Aug 19, 2026
Reporting period: Not applicable
Filed with the SEC: Aug 21, 2026

Director$1M+

Context

Classification

open market sale

Code S — open-market or private sale

Absolute commitment

~$2,800,000

Shares × reported transaction price

Timing vs results

13 days after results of Aug 6, 2026

Results dates are the company's own 8-K (Item 2.02). Many companies only let insiders trade in a window after results

Price at the time

Closed at $27.54 on Aug 19, 2026, 54% above its 52-week low and 13% below its high, after a 7% rise over the previous 30 trading days

52-week range $17.89 (Apr 10, 2026) to $31.58 (Aug 22, 2025), 70% of the way up, from 251 adjusted closes. 30 trading days earlier: $25.81 on Jul 8, 2026. Describes the past only, not a forecast

Planned / mechanical clue

None found in footnotes

Only flagged when a footnote says so; never inferred

After it was reported

After	Stock	S&P 500	Difference
7 days	+6.5%	+0.5%	+6.0%
30 days	-9.9%	+0.6%	-10.5%

Past results only. Not a forecast.

Source receipt

Record ID: 0000849399-26-000036
Filed / recorded: Aug 21, 2026, 8:45 PM UTC
Added to OQRO: Oct 2, 2026, 12:27 PM UTC
Parser: form4-xml-v1
Data quality: Verified: identifiers matched exactly
Issuer: Gen Digital Inc.
Issuer CIK: 849399
Ticker: GEN
Reporting person: Ondrej Vlcek
Relationship: Director
Security: Common Stock
Table: Non-derivative (Table I)
Transaction date: Aug 19, 2026
Transaction code: S
Shares / units: 100,000
Price per share: $28.00
Acquired / disposed: Disposed (D)
Shares owned after: 3,732,724
Ownership form: Direct
Amendment: No

Footnotes from the filing

The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $28.000 to $28.001, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide Gen Digital Inc., any security holder of Gen Digital Inc., or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range reported in this footnote.