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HSY NYSE

The Hershey Company
1W: -3.0% 1M: +0.0% 3M: -10.6% YTD: -9.2% 1Y: -7.6% 3Y: -7.9% 5Y: +1.6%
$164.51
-3.72 (-2.21%)
 
Weekly Expected Move ±4.2%
$156 $163 $170 $177 $184
NYSE · Consumer Defensive · Food Confectioners · Tech Score Neutral · Power 57 · $33.1B mcap · 197M float · 0.820% daily turnover · Short 71% of daily vol
Credit Risk of going bust: lower than 82% of companies Debt: 14.5% of company value Bonds: $40.1M held by 122 funds, 36 bp over Treasuries → details ▾
Of US companies ranked in the safest four tenths, about 1 in 3,500 filed for bankruptcy within a year (2020-2025).
If the stock fell to about $1.67 (down 99%), The Hershey Company would be worth roughly what it owes.
Total debt $5.61B against a stock market value of $33.05B.
Distance to default 10.08 (Merton model): prices to 2026-10-27, balance sheet 2026-06-28, debt counted $2.76B (short-term plus half of long-term), stock volatility 27.5%; Altman Z 4.10. A ranking and a back-test, not a forecast.
Bond figures are fund-reported marks (SEC N-PORT) as of Jul 2026. How these are computed.
#2 of 18
Food Confectioners
Consumer Defensive · Large Cap · 3 peers
Market Share
25.8%
Top 4 Concentration: 99.6%

Technical Signal Map

2 Bullish
2 Neutral
0 Bearish

Peer Comparison

Symbol Mkt Cap P/E ROE % ROIC % Net Mgn % Rev Grw % Piotroski Signal 1Y Ret %
HSY The Hershey Company $34B 22.3 32.8 17.7 16.4 7.7 6 NEUTRAL -7.6
MDLZ Mondelez International, Inc. $81B 22.8 13.3 7.5 16.5 6.9 6 BULLISH 2.6
CHLSY Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG $23B 26.7 16.1 13.4 8.2 5.8 6 BULLISH -41.9
LDSVF Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli AG Partizipsch. $23B 26.7 16.0 13.3 8.2 4.7 6 NEUTRAL -37.6

Profile Radar

Valuation vs Profitability

Performance Comparison

Industry Market Share

HSY vs Benchmarks

ROIC
HSY
17.7
Industry
13.1
Gross Margin
HSY
45.3
Industry
34.8
Op Margin
HSY
23.1
Industry
6.2
Net Margin
HSY
16.4
Industry
6.0
Sector
7.5
Revenue Growth
HSY
7.7
Sector
1.9
P/E Ratio
HSY
22.3
Sector
23.3
ROE
HSY
32.8
Sector
16.4
Piotroski F
HSY
6.0
Sector
5.0

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