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) P/B ratio

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As of 16 October 2026, Hershey Company (The) (HSY) trades at a P/B ratio of 5.5×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 4.8× (May 2025) to 31.4× (August 2016); the current reading is higher than 4% of that period. That is above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.7×.

P/B ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/B ratio Change
FY2025 8.0× 9.23%
FY2024 7.3× (23.99%)
FY2023 9.6× (32.15%)
FY2022 14.1× (2.55%)
FY2021 14.5× 2.24%
FY2020 14.2× (19.58%)
FY2019 17.6× 10.31%
FY2018 16.0× (37.39%)
FY2017 25.5× (5.00%)
FY2016 26.9× 43.99%

Quarterly newest first

Period P/B ratio Change
Jun 2026 5.7× (13.05%)
Mar 2026 6.5× (18.05%)
Dec 2025 8.0× 30.97%
Sep 2025 6.1× 11.57%
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 4.8× High 31.4×
Ten-year median 15.8×
Current reading's percentile 4

P/B ratio against peers

Company P/B ratio
SOWG Sow Good Inc. compare n/m
RMCF Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. compare 2.1×
TR Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. compare 3.0×
MDLZ Mondelez International, Inc. compare 3.1×
HSY Hershey Company (The) 5.5×
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.7×
Market median 1.7×

What P/B ratio is

Price to Book Value tells an investor how much the market pays for a company’s shares relative to the accounting net worth that belongs to common shareholders.

Stock Price ÷ (Common Equity (Total) (latest quarter) ÷ Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter))

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