Gen Digital

Gen Digital is the consumer cybersecurity company formed from the merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, with brands including Norton, Avast, AVG, Avira and LifeLock. It sells subscription-based antivirus, identity protection, VPN and privacy tools to a large global base of individual users, giving it steady recurring revenue. The company traces a dividend history back through its Symantec lineage and has kept a consistent payout, backed by dependable subscription cash flow. The yield is modest and the dividend has held broadly stable rather than climbing aggressively, with management also using cash for buybacks and debt from the Avast deal. It offers a serviceable, recurring-revenue-backed dividend of middling reliability rather than a standout income record.