HSYHershey Company (The)
Is the price fair?
Growth expectations in line with delivery. That is the only one of 3 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.
Priced for ~2% a year FCF growth. Roughly in line with its three-year revenue growth of 4% a year.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What HSY's price assumes
Today's price asks for 2.5% free cash flow growth a year; over the last three years Hershey Company (The) delivered 10%, less than the record.
Price / sales · no trailing P/E on file: measured against sales instead
- Free cash flow yield
- 6.4%
Free cash flow yield · Consumer Defensive median 6.4%
- Growth the price implies
- +2.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +2.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +10% a year over the last three.
- Price / book
- 7.85
Price / book · as of 2025-Q4
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- Price / bookas of 2025-Q4
- 7.85
- EV / EBITas of 2025-Q4
- 28.2
- EV / salesas of 2025-Q4
- 3.48
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $2.23B
- Market capitalisation
- $35.0B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +3.9%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +10%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Consumer Defensive
Ranks #24 of 131 by RyuScore