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) Total debt

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Hershey Company (The)'s total debt at the end of fiscal 2025 was $5.4B, up 5.90% from $5.1B in fiscal 2024. At the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 it was $5.1B. Over the past ten years it has ranged from $2.4B (fiscal 2015) to $5.4B (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. Hershey Company (The) ranks 2nd of 5 Confectioners companies by total debt.

Total debt, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Total debt Change
FY2025 $5.4B 5.90%
FY2024 $5.1B 5.99%
FY2023 $4.8B 0.47%
FY2022 $4.8B (4.72%)
FY2021 $5.0B 9.26%
FY2020 $4.6B 7.88%
FY2019 $4.3B (4.29%)
FY2018 $4.5B 52.63%
FY2017 $2.9B (2.00%)
FY2016 $3.0B 23.12%

Quarterly newest first

Period Total debt Change
Sep 2026 $5.1B (8.63%)
Jun 2026 $5.6B 4.72%
Mar 2026 $5.4B (0.84%)
Dec 2025 $5.4B 0.16%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low $2.4B High $5.4B
Ten-year median $4.6B
Current reading's percentile 100

Total debt against peers

What Total debt is

Total Debt tells an investor how much a company has borrowed in all, whether the money is due within a year or later.

Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt

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