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HERSHEY CO HSY

Sugar & Confectionery Products · CIK 0000047111 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$11.69B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
$1.44B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
$1.82B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$24.68BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-27
Float / net income27.9×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue2.1×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity5.3×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-27, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

27.9× earnings today, against a median of 18.2× across 10 years on record. Above its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-27$24.68B27.9×
2024-06-28$26.72B12.0×
2023-06-30$36.85B19.8×
2022-07-01$32.21B19.6×
2021-07-02$25.26B17.1×
2020-06-26$18.51B14.5×
2019-06-28$19.93B17.3×
2018-06-29$13.04B11.1×
2017-06-30$14.89B19.0×
2016-07-01$15.56B21.6×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

HERSHEY CO (HSY) reported revenue of $11.69B and net income of $883.26M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from HERSHEY CO’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Sugar & Confectionery Products.

Income

HERSHEY CO income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Revenue$11.69B$11.20B$11.16B$10.42B$8.97B$8.15B$7.99B$7.79B$7.52B$7.44B
Cost of revenue$7.77B$5.90B$6.17B$5.92B$4.92B$4.45B$4.36B$4.22B$4.06B$4.27B
Gross profit$3.92B$5.30B$5.00B$4.50B$4.05B$3.70B$3.62B$3.58B$3.46B$3.17B
Operating income$1.44B$2.90B$2.56B$2.26B$2.04B$1.78B$1.60B$1.62B$1.31B$1.26B
Net income$883.26M$2.22B$1.86B$1.64B$1.48B$1.28B$1.15B$1.18B$782.98M$720.04M
Research & development$61.66M$55.80M$50.03M$46.94M$40.11M$37.58M$37.15M$38.52M$45.85M$47.27M
Weighted-average diluted sharesUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Pretax income$1.21B$2.47B$2.17B$1.92B$1.80B$1.49B$1.38B$1.41B$1.11B$1.10B
Income tax expense$330.95M$252.70M$310.08M$272.25M$314.40M$219.58M$234.03M$239.01M$354.13M$379.44M
Diluted EPSUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling, general & administrative$2.46B$2.37B$2.44B$2.24B$2.00B$1.89B$1.91B$1.87B$1.89B$1.89B
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

HERSHEY CO balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Cash & equivalentsUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$588.00M$380.18M$296.97M
Total assets$13.74B$12.95B$11.90B$10.95B$10.41B$9.13B$8.14B$7.70B$5.55B$5.52B
Current assets$3.59B$3.76B$2.91B$2.62B$2.25B$2.98B$2.12B$2.24B$2.00B$1.82B
Total liabilities$9.10B$8.23B$7.80B$7.65B$7.66B$6.89B$6.40B$6.30B$4.62B$4.70B
Current liabilities$3.01B$3.93B$3.01B$3.26B$2.49B$1.89B$2.01B$2.42B$2.08B$1.91B
Total equity incl. NCI$4.64B$4.71B$4.10B$3.30B$2.76B$2.24B$1.74B$1.41B$931.56M$827.69M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$1.43B$1.25B$1.34B$1.17B$988.51M$964.21M$815.25M$784.88M$752.84M$745.68M
Accounts receivable$729.55M$800.40M$823.62M$711.20M$671.46M$615.23M$568.51M$594.14M$588.26M$581.38M
Goodwill$3.00B$2.71B$2.70B$2.61B$2.63B$1.99B$1.99B$1.80B$821.06M$812.34M
Long-term debt$4.68B$3.19B$3.79B$3.34B$4.09B$4.09B$3.53B$3.25B$2.06B$2.35B
Accounts payable$1.26B$1.16B$1.09B$970.56M$692.34M$580.06M$550.83M$502.31M$523.23M$522.54M

Cash flow

HERSHEY CO cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Operating cash flow$2.28B$2.53B$2.32B$2.33B$2.08B$1.70B$1.76B$1.60B$1.25B$1.01B
Capital expenditures$454.62M$605.94M$771.11M$519.48M$495.88M$441.63M$318.19M$328.60M$257.68M$269.48M
Investing cash flow-$1.28B-$960.31M-$1.20B-$787.38M-$2.22B-$531.28M-$780.48M-$1.50B-$328.66M-$595.45M
Financing cash flow-$803.36M-$1.30B-$1.15B-$1.42B-$681.14M-$499.23M-$1.08B$116.11M-$843.77M-$464.40M
Net change in cash$195.11M$328.84M-$61.99M$134.62M-$814.72M$650.72M-$94.74M$207.82M$83.21M-$49.56M
Stock-based compensation$65.46M$44.41M$81.02M$65.99M$66.71M$57.58M$51.90M$49.29M$51.06M$54.78M
Common dividends paid$1.09B$1.08B$889.07M$775.03M$685.99M$640.73M$610.31M$562.52M$526.27M$499.48M
Common share repurchases$0$494.19M$264.91M$388.96M$457.95M$211.20M$527.21M$247.50M$300.31M$592.55M
Depreciation & amortization$503.70M$455.26M$419.82M$378.96M$315.00M$294.91M$291.54M$295.14M$261.85M$301.84M

Derived

HERSHEY CO derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Free cash flow$1.82B$1.93B$1.55B$1.81B$1.59B$1.26B$1.45B$1.27B$991.84M$743.95M
Gross margin33.5%47.3%44.8%43.2%45.1%45.4%45.4%45.9%46.0%42.6%
Operating margin12.3%25.9%22.9%21.7%22.8%21.9%20.0%20.8%17.5%16.9%
FCF margin15.6%17.2%13.9%17.4%17.7%15.4%18.1%16.3%13.2%10.0%
SBC / revenue0.6%0.4%0.7%0.6%0.7%0.7%0.6%0.6%0.7%0.7%
Current ratio1.19x0.96x0.97x0.80x0.90x1.57x1.05x0.93x0.96x0.95x
Revenue YoY growth4.4%0.3%7.2%16.1%10.1%2.0%2.5%3.7%1.0%Unavailable
Net margin7.6%19.8%16.7%15.8%16.5%15.7%14.4%15.1%10.4%9.7%
R&D / revenue0.5%0.5%0.4%0.5%0.4%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.6%0.6%
CapEx / revenue3.9%5.4%6.9%5.0%5.5%5.4%4.0%4.2%3.4%3.6%
Long-term debt / equity1.01xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate27.3%10.2%14.3%14.2%17.5%14.7%16.9%17.0%31.9%34.5%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open HSY in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-10-29View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-07-30View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-04-30View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-17View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-10-30View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-07-30View SEC filing

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