The Hershey
$159.30Change from previous close: +1.07%Absolute change: +$1.69
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $32.01B
- Enterprise value
- $37.14B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 21.6
- Forward P/E
- 16.2
- PEG
- 0.79
- Price/book
- 7.01
- Price/sales
- 2.63
- EV/EBITDA
- 13.6
- EV/revenue
- 3.05
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 38.4%
- Operating margin
- 23.1%
- Net margin
- 12.2%
- ROE
- 32.8%
- ROA
- 9.9%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 6.6%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 631.0%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $791.21M
- Total debt
- $5.92B
- Debt/equity
- 1.30
- Current ratio
- 1.18
- Quick ratio
- 0.51
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $5.81
- Dividend yield
- 3.7%
- Payout ratio
- 77.1%
- Ex-dividend date
- August 14, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $204.10
- Median price target
- $200.00
- High price target
- $250.00
- Low price target
- $170.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 21
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $9.86
- EPS estimate, current year
- $8.49
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.10
- Average volume
- 1.51M
- Shares outstanding
- 146.31M
- Float
- 144.82M
- Institutional ownership
- 91.4%
- Insider ownership
- 0.3%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 7.4%
- Short ratio (days)
- 7.63