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

Hershey Company (The) (HSY) EV/FCF

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As of 16 October 2026, Hershey Company (The) (HSY) trades at a EV/FCF of 13.9×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 13.0× (September 2026) to 55.5× (January 2015); the current reading is higher than 1% of that period.

EV/FCF, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
FY2025 23.7× 17.64%
FY2024 20.1× (28.59%)
FY2023 28.2× (0.04%)
FY2022 28.2× 0.08%
FY2021 28.2× 0.62%
FY2020 28.0× 17.09%
FY2019 23.9× 19.73%
FY2018 20.0× (24.23%)
FY2017 26.3× (21.00%)
FY2016 33.4× 38.88%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
Jun 2026 14.3× (25.37%)
Mar 2026 19.1× (19.31%)
Dec 2025 23.7× 36.27%
Sep 2025 17.4× (2.14%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 13.0× High 55.5×
Ten-year median 25.2×
Current reading's percentile 1

EV/FCF against peers

What EV/FCF is

EV/Free CF shows how the value of a whole company, debt included, compares with the free cash its business produces.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ (Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM))

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