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GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. GENK

4 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$212.5M
▲ 2.0% YoY
$-3.0M
▼ 611.1% YoY
$-24.3M

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In brief

What this company does

GEN Inc. operates Asian casual dining restaurants in the United States. The company has grown to 57 company-owned restaurants, as of December 31, 2025, located in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Texas, New York, Oregon, North Carolina, Washington, New Jersey, Florida and South Korea. As of December 31, 2025, the company had approximately 2,700 employees, of whom 375 were employed on a full-time basis. Sysco, with which the company entered into a food-purchasing agreement in the fourth quarter of 2023, accounted for approximately 57.4% and 76.3% of its food costs in 2025 and 2024, respectively. GEN Inc. is the managing member of GEN LLC, which owns 43 restaurants and related subsidiaries. GEN Inc. was founded in 2011 by two Korean immigrants, and opened its first restaurant in September 2011.

Written from the business description in GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 31 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 212.5M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 4-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 212.5 · Net income -3.0
100M200M
20222025
Compound annual growth
+9.1%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

−9 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -9.4% · Net -9.1%
2%4%6%-5%
202220232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -8.6%
0.5%1.0%-5.0%
202220232025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin·
Operating margin-9.4%
Net margin-9.1%
EBITDA·

Each USD of equity lost 9 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 358,000.00
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF -24.3
10M20M-10M-20M
202220232025
Net buybacks $ Dividends $
FY2025 · Dividends 157000.0 · Net buybacks 201000.0
150000300000DividendsNet buybacks
2025
Dividends paidUSD 157,000.00
Net buybacksUSD 201,000.00
Share of profit-11.8%
Consecutive raises·

USD 157,000.00 in dividends and USD 201,000.00 in buybacks went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 259.9M
CashUSD 2.8M
Gross debtUSD 13.6M
Net debtUSD 10.8M
Current ratio0.42×

Net debt stands at 41% of equity.

The 4-year record

4 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
GENK, 4-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022
Revenue $B0.20.20.20.2
Operating income $B−0.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B◌◌◌◌
Income tax $B−0.00.00.0◌
Net income $B−0.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B−0.0−0.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $−0.590.130.08◌
Dividend / sh $0.03◌◌◌
Payout %−5———
ROE %−8.61.5——

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 15 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 4 of the 4 fiscal years we could check. 30 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2022. 16 checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2023.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityRetail-Eating Places
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
SEC categoryemerging growth company
Data on record since2022

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