Sell Gen Digital (GEN) stock to fund a goal
Calculator · free · no signup · GENNeed cash for a goal? Plan the minimum-tax schedule to sell your vested Gen Digital (GEN) shares and net a target amount by a target date, across tax years.
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Inputs
Your equity
One stack per ticker (current-employer RSUs, prior-employer holdings, index fund, etc.). Each stack has its own current price, growth assumption, and cost-basis lots.
Drives chance-of-shortfall · default 30%
Lots
Plan
Estimates only. Not financial advice.
Lock-in-now is deterministic (0%). Plans that wait depend on future prices; risk is near-zero when inventory comfortably exceeds the goal. Volatility: each stack's option-implied vol if a ticker is set, otherwise 30%. Lognormal model; real markets have fatter tails.
| Tax | $109,617 | $111,667 | $111,859 | $118,744 |
| Wealth @ target | $718,846 | $716,668 | $714,158 | $711,725 |
| Chance of shortfall | <0.1% | 0% | 1.8% | 3.4% |
Feasible
$400,074 net by 08/01/27
Total tax: $109,617 (federal $58,832, state $36,054, NIIT $14,732)
Schedule · Recommended
| Sale date | Shares | Tax | Net | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/20/26 | 4,086 | $351,185 | $360,065 | |
| 03/31/27 | 4 | $360 | $360,428 | |
| 04/30/27 | 32 | $2,894 | $363,341 | |
| 05/31/27 | 100 | $9,099 | $372,482 | |
| 06/30/27 | 100 | $9,152 | $381,655 | |
| 07/31/27 | 100 | $9,208 | $390,864 | |
| 08/01/27 | 100 | $9,210 | $400,074 |
Risk vs wealth
Each dot is a possible plan. Right is riskier, up is more wealth left over.
Trajectory of cash netted
Solid line = expected. Shaded band = 10th–90th percentile under price uncertainty.
After the plan
You keep 3,478 shares worth $411,546 at the projected target-date price, invested for the next decision.
You solved for a cash target. The beta optimizes your full portfolio across multiple goals and market scenarios, not just one funding need.
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About Gen Digital
Gen Digital (GEN) is a public Cybersecurity company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Tempe, AZ.
Last close: $27.64 per share (as of 2026-08-18).
Equity grants at Gen Digital typically include restricted stock units (RSUs).
Gen Digital Inc. is a multinational software company co-headquartered in both Tempe, Arizona (USA) and Prague, Czech Republic (EU). The company provides cybersecurity software, financial technology, and services. Gen is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock-market index. It is listed at both NASDAQ and Prague Stock Exchange. Its portfolio includes Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, MoneyLion and CCleaner.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The company is what remained after Symantec sold its enterprise security division to Broadcom in 2019, keeping the consumer brands and later merging with Avast in 2022 to form Gen Digital. Norton, Avast, LifeLock, and Avira are sold as subscriptions directly to consumers, so the economics turn on renewal rates and the cost of acquiring a subscriber rather than on enterprise sales cycles. Identity protection and credit monitoring carry higher prices than antivirus alone, which is why the mix has shifted that way. Direct billing relationships make price increases straightforward to implement. Headquarters are in Tempe, Arizona.
Sources: sec.gov · en.wikipedia.org
OptionsAhoy is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Gen Digital.
If you hold vested Gen Digital (GEN) shares and need a set amount of cash by a date (a house down payment, tuition, a sabbatical, a business buy-in), the question is which lots to sell and in which tax years to keep the most after tax. This calculator builds the minimum-tax sell schedule across your lots, accounting for federal long-term capital gains, the net investment income tax, and your state.
Example: a 5,000-share GEN position at $27.64 is worth $138,200. Say you need $150,000 of it for a house down payment by next spring. Selling enough shares all in one tax year can push the gain into the higher long-term capital-gains bracket and trigger the 3.8% net investment income tax; spreading the sale across two tax years often nets more. The calculator above finds the minimum-tax sell schedule across your specific lots, basis, goal, and date.
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Gen Digital equity questions
- How much GEN stock do I sell to fund a goal without overpaying tax?
- It depends on your cost basis, your target amount and date, and how the sale spreads across tax years. Selling vested GEN shares triggers long-term capital-gains tax, plus the 3.8% net investment income tax and state tax above certain income, and bunching a large sale into one year can push the gain into a higher bracket. The calculator above builds the minimum-tax sell schedule across your lots to net your target amount by your date.
- Does Gen Digital grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Gen Digital typically takes the form of restricted stock units (RSUs). Restricted stock units are taxed as ordinary income when they vest.
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