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) Revenue growth

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Hershey Company (The)'s revenue growth over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 7.69%, up 3.3 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (4.38%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −0.47% (fiscal 2015) to 16.1% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 73% of that period. That is above the Confectioners industry median of 1.65% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 4.83%.

Revenue growth, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Revenue growth Change (points)
FY2025 4.38% 4.05
FY2024 0.33% (6.83)
FY2023 7.16% (8.98)
FY2022 16.1% 6.06
FY2021 10.1% 8.03
FY2020 2.05% (0.46)
FY2019 2.51% (1.16)
FY2018 3.67% 2.66
FY2017 1.01% 0.28
FY2016 0.73% 1.20

Quarterly newest first

Period Revenue growth Change (points)
Jun 2026 6.60% (4.05)
Mar 2026 10.7% 3.60
Dec 2025 7.05% 0.56
Sep 2025 6.49% (19.55)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −0.47% High 16.1%
Ten-year median 2.51%
Current reading's percentile 73

Revenue growth against peers

Company Revenue growth
HSY Hershey Company (The) 7.69%
MDLZ Mondelez International, Inc. compare 6.93%
TR Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. compare 1.65%
RMCF Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc. compare −7.81%
SOWG Sow Good Inc. compare −81.9%
Confectioners industry median 1.65%
Consumer Defensive sector median 4.83%
Market median 7.41%

What Revenue growth is

Revenue Growth shows how fast a company’s sales are rising or falling compared with the same period a year earlier.

(Revenue − Revenue a year earlier) ÷ |Revenue a year earlier|

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