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.

Revenue
+2.96%
EPS
+183.1%
Free cash flow
−14.0%
Total debt
−4.97%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

176.79 2.29 +1.31%
Market cap
$35.7B
P/E
15.2×
Fwd P/E
19.2×
Dividend yield
3.24%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.24
Beneish M
−2.79
Dividend safety
57/100

Hershey Company (The) (HSY) Shares outstanding

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Hershey Company (The)'s shares outstanding at the end of fiscal 2025 was $203.4M, unchanged from fiscal 2024. At the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 it was $201.7M. Over the past ten years it has ranged from $203.4M (fiscal 2025) to $220.7M (fiscal 2015) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. Hershey Company (The) ranks 2nd of 5 Confectioners companies by shares outstanding.

Shares outstanding, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Shares outstanding Change
FY2025 $203.4M (0.05%)
FY2024 $203.5M (1.00%)
FY2023 $205.5M (0.50%)
FY2022 $206.6M (0.57%)
FY2021 $207.8M (0.79%)
FY2020 $209.4M (0.61%)
FY2019 $210.7M (0.14%)
FY2018 $211.0M (1.29%)
FY2017 $213.7M (0.73%)
FY2016 $215.3M (2.42%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Shares outstanding Change
Sep 2026 $201.7M (0.52%)
Jun 2026 $202.7M (0.58%)
Mar 2026 $203.9M 0.27%
Dec 2025 $203.4M (0.06%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low $203.4M High $220.7M
Ten-year median $209.4M
Current reading's percentile 9

Shares outstanding against peers

What Shares outstanding is

Shares (Diluted, Weighted) tells an investor how many shares a company’s earnings are spread across once potential new shares are counted.

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