Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$177.47
-3.05% today
1Y Change
+3.37%
Window
Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 246 bars · Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
The Hershey Company (HSY) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $37.65B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $177.47 and up 3.4% across the available one-year price window (Jun 26, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +4.4%, EPS growth of -59.9%, a dividend yield of 3.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +4.4%, EPS -59.9%, free cash flow -9.2% with operating margin 14.1% and ROIC 10.9%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 3.0%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 34.5 and price/sales 3.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines HSY price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
HSY
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
HSY Max Drawdown
-26.94%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for HSY and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$9.0B
-13.9% YoY
FY Net Income
$1.5B
-10.2% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$1.6B
-12.2% YoY
Revenue Growth
+4.4%
EPS Growth
-59.9%
Gross Margin
34.8%
Net Margin
9.1%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 11.7B | 11.2B | 11.2B | 10.4B | 9.0B |
| Gross Profit | 3.9B | 5.3B | 5.0B | 4.5B | 4.0B |
| Operating Income | 1.4B | 2.9B | 2.6B | 2.3B | 2.0B |
| EBITDA | 1.4B | 3.1B | 2.8B | 2.4B | 2.2B |
| Net Income | 883M | 2.2B | 1.9B | 1.6B | 1.5B |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 926M | 731M | 402M | 464M | 329M |
| Total Assets | 13.7B | 12.9B | 11.9B | 10.9B | 10.4B |
| Total Liabilities | 9.1B | 8.2B | 7.8B | 7.6B | 7.7B |
| Shareholder Equity | 4.6B | 4.7B | 4.1B | 3.3B | 2.8B |
| Total Debt | 5.4B | 5.4B | 5.1B | 5.1B | 5.4B |
| Net Debt | 4.5B | 4.7B | 4.7B | 4.7B | 5.0B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
2.1B
-10.5% YoY
Capital Expenditures
496M
+4.5% YoY
Free Cash Flow
1.6B
-12.2% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
34.8%
Operating Margin
14.1%
Net Margin
9.1%
ROE
23.7%
Debt / Equity
1.13x
Next Step
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