Hershey Company (The)

HSY Consumer Defensive Confectioners

Hershey Company (The)’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $11.7 billion, up 4.38% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 6.60%, EPS grew 869.2%, free cash flow grew 809.1% and total debt was flat, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years, revenue growth for ten; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

170.74 2.06 +1.22%
Market cap
$33.9B
P/E
18.9×
Fwd P/E
23.0×
Dividend yield
3.35%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.24
Beneish M
−2.79
Dividend safety
57/100
Dec '25 Dec '24 Dec '23 Dec '22 Dec '21 Dec '20 Dec '19 Dec '18 Dec '17 Dec '16
P/E ratio
40.62 14.15 19.17 27.64 26.32 24.31 26.06 18.61 29.90 30.21
Piotroski F-Score
5 7 8 7 6 7 6 5 8 7
P/S ratio
3.16 3.07 3.52 4.48 4.46 3.90 3.85 2.89 3.17 2.99
Altman Z-Score
4.24 4.71 5.11 5.76 4.98 4.74 4.75 5.10 6.85 6.46
Altman Z″-Score (non-manufacturers)
2.82 3.45 3.19 2.53 2.39 3.12 2.21 4.47 5.45 5.21
P/FCF ratio
21.11 17.85 25.33 25.79 25.20 25.24 21.29 17.04 23.81 29.77
Beneish M-Score
(2.79) (2.66) (2.54) (2.70) (2.53) (2.65) (2.80) (2.39) (2.97) (2.60)
P/Operating CF
39.85 36.50 51.89 60.76 58.89 52.54 39.96 31.83 38.16 39.55
Dividend Safety Score
57 — — — — — — — — —
P/B ratio
7.96 7.29 9.59 14.14 14.51 14.19 17.64 15.99 25.54 26.89
Price to Tangible BV
0.00 254.54 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
EV/Sales
3.54 3.46 3.92 4.89 4.98 4.32 4.33 3.39 3.50 3.35
EV/EBITDA
21.28 11.55 14.67 19.31 18.95 16.95 18.31 13.75 14.76 15.97
EV/Operating CF
18.18 15.30 18.82 21.90 21.46 20.72 19.59 16.49 21.08 24.61
EV/FCF
23.67 20.12 28.17 28.19 28.16 27.99 23.90 19.96 26.35 33.36
Quick Ratio
0.55 0.39 0.41 0.36 0.40 0.93 0.53 0.49 0.47 0.46
Current Ratio
1.19 0.96 0.97 0.80 0.90 1.57 1.05 0.93 0.96 0.95
Net Debt/EBITDA
2.30 1.30 1.48 1.64 1.99 1.66 2.00 2.02 1.42 1.72
Debt/Assets
39.32% 39.41% 40.44% 43.76% 48.30% 50.40% 52.41% 57.87% 52.59% 53.95%
Debt/Equity
1.17 1.08 1.17 1.45 1.82 2.06 2.45 3.17 3.14 3.60
Asset Turnover
0.88 0.90 0.98 0.98 0.92 0.94 1.01 1.18 1.36 1.37
Operating CF/Net income
2.58 1.14 1.25 1.42 1.41 1.33 1.53 1.36 1.60 1.41
Capex/Depreciation
(1.05) (1.33) (1.84) (1.37) (1.57) (1.50) (1.09) (0.94) (0.53) (0.87)
Interest Coverage
7.58 17.50 16.87 16.44 16.04 11.93 11.07 11.69 13.36 13.92
ROE
18.89% 50.40% 50.33% 54.31% 59.16% 64.21% 72.94% 100.70% 89.01% 76.80%
ROA
6.62% 17.88% 16.29% 15.40% 15.12% 14.81% 14.51% 17.77% 14.14% 13.25%
ROIC
9.89% 19.94% 18.81% 18.53% 17.13% 19.56% 18.08% 19.23% 23.64% 22.34%
Return on Tangible Assets
21.51% 67.54% 57.94% 77.11% 63.17% 37.93% 50.84% 60.36% 38.53% 34.54%
Average Days of Receivables
22.77 26.08 26.93 24.91 27.32 27.55 25.98 27.83 28.57 28.52
Research and Development Expense of Revenue
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Selling, General and Administrative Expense of Revenue
21.04% 21.19% 21.82% 21.46% 22.31% 23.20% 23.87% 24.06% 25.09% 25.42%
Intangible Assets out of Total Assets
0.40 0.35 0.38 0.42 0.45 0.36 0.41 0.40 0.21 0.24
Share Based Compensation of Revenue
0.56% 0.40% 0.73% 0.63% 0.74% 0.71% 0.65% 0.63% 0.68% 0.74%
Graham Net Nets
(0.15) (0.13) (0.12) (0.11) (0.14) (0.12) (0.14) (0.18) (0.11) (0.13)
Graham Number
48.00 79.09 67.17 54.46 46.96 38.91 32.51 29.47 19.24 17.30
Earnings Yield
2.46% 7.07% 5.22% 3.62% 3.80% 4.11% 3.84% 5.37% 3.34% 3.31%
Free Cash Flow Yield
4.74% 5.60% 3.95% 3.88% 3.97% 3.96% 4.70% 5.87% 4.20% 3.36%
Revenue per Share
57.63 55.19 54.53 50.69 43.40 39.10 38.13 37.10 35.41 34.74
Operating CF per Share
11.22 12.47 11.35 11.33 10.08 8.15 8.42 7.62 5.89 4.73
Capex per Share
(2.60) (2.99) (3.77) (2.53) (2.40) (2.12) (1.52) (1.33) (1.18) (1.24)
Free Cash Flow per Share
8.62 9.49 7.58 8.80 7.68 6.04 6.90 6.29 4.71 3.49
Cash per Share
4.56 3.60 1.96 2.26 1.59 5.49 2.36 2.80 1.79 1.39
Shareholders Equity per Share
22.85 23.23 20.02 16.05 13.34 10.74 8.33 6.70 4.39 3.87
Interest Debt per Share
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Book value per Share
22.85 23.23 20.02 16.05 13.34 10.74 8.33 6.70 4.39 3.87
Free Cash Flow
1,749.15 1,925.65 1,552.08 1,808.36 1,587.01 1,258.03 1,445.68 1,321.15 999.45 747.60
Working Capital
577.00 (170.04) (96.25) (636.75) (247.11) 1,086.16 108.31 (179.38) (74.63) (92.66)
Capital Expenditures
(528.22) (605.94) (771.11) (519.48) (495.88) (441.63) (318.19) (278.84) (250.07) (265.82)
Net Current Asset Value
(5,515.65) (4,472.75) (4,891.75) (5,028.87) (5,408.80) (3,916.06) (4,278.30) (4,056.57) (2,620.25) (2,879.87)
EV/EBIT
28.72 13.37 17.08 22.55 21.87 19.75 21.65 16.25 20.05 19.87
Capex to Sales
0.05 0.05 0.07 0.05 0.06 0.05 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.04
Price to Operating Income
25.61 11.86 15.35 20.63 19.57 17.81 19.29 13.86 18.12 17.73
Other line items
Depreciation/Fixed assets
0.14 0.13 0.13 0.14 0.12 0.13 0.14 0.14 0.22 0.14
Cash ROIC
15.95% 18.26% 16.66% 21.14% 19.56% 15.76% 22.23% 20.47% 23.62% 18.21%
Accounts Receivable Turnover
15.28 13.80 14.55 15.07 13.94 13.77 13.74 13.18 12.85 12.61
Accounts Payable Turnover
6.44 5.26 6.00 7.12 7.74 7.87 8.29 8.22 7.76 8.57
Inventory Turnover
5.79 4.55 4.91 5.48 5.04 5.00 5.45 5.48 5.42 5.71
Average Days of Payables
58.99 71.70 64.29 59.84 51.33 47.59 46.07 43.49 47.04 44.66
Days of Inventory on Hand
67.14 77.57 79.37 72.32 73.29 79.11 68.19 67.96 67.68 63.73
Average Receivables
764.97 812.01 767.41 691.33 643.35 591.87 581.33 591.20 584.82 590.23
Average Payables
1,207.44 1,122.68 1,028.37 831.45 636.20 565.44 526.57 512.77 522.88 498.40
Average Inventory
1,341.67 1,297.55 1,257.06 1,080.82 976.36 889.73 800.07 768.86 749.26 748.32
Average Assets
13,344.08 12,424.90 11,425.88 10,680.53 9,772.04 8,636.12 7,921.71 6,628.37 5,539.03 5,434.35
Average Common Equity
4,675.70 4,406.87 3,699.32 3,028.39 2,497.56 1,991.44 1,576.13 1,169.42 879.63 937.57

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