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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
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Hershey Company (The) (HSY) Debt to equity

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Hershey Company (The)'s debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 June 2026 was 1.2×, up 0.1× from fiscal 2025 (1.2×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.1× (fiscal 2024) to 3.6× (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is above the Confectioners industry median of 0.7× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.3×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 1.2× 7.68%
FY2024 1.1× (7.85%)
FY2023 1.2× (19.12%)
FY2022 1.5× (20.38%)
FY2021 1.8× (11.32%)
FY2020 2.1× (15.88%)
FY2019 2.4× (22.81%)
FY2018 3.2× 1.04%
FY2017 3.1× (12.93%)
FY2016 3.6× 55.82%

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Jun 2026 1.2× 8.65%
Mar 2026 1.1× (2.87%)
Dec 2025 1.2× (1.40%)
Sep 2025 1.2× (5.48%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 1.1× High 3.6×
Ten-year median 2.1×
Current reading's percentile 18

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
SOWG Sow Good Inc. compare 0.0×
TR Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. compare 0.0×
MDLZ Mondelez International, Inc. compare 0.7×
HSY Hershey Company (The) 1.2×
RMCF Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. compare 1.6×
Confectioners industry median 0.7×
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.3×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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