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HSYHershey Co
Consumer Staples · Packaged Foods & Meats · Large
$169.64−3.42%
As of 23 Oct 2026Mkt cap $35.7B
Stage 13
AVOID
Fundamentals
38.7/75
Technical
5.9/15
Independent
44.6/90
GCAE viewFundamental /75 is below the Stage 13 acceptable-business floor
Price
- 1M
- +1.7%
- 3M
- −5.9%
- 6M
- −11.4%
- 1Y
- −7.9%
Financials & valuation
Cached filing evidence · as of 2026-10-02
Valuation
- P/E
- 24.2xHist median 25.5x
- Forward P/E
- —No validated forward-estimate source
- Price / FCF
- 19.4x
- FCF yield
- 5.2%
Quality
- ROIC
- 13.5%
- Operating margin
- 22.9%
- FCF margin
- 15.6%
- Current ratio
- 1.2x
Growth
- Revenue growth
- +4.4%Latest FY YoY
- Revenue CAGR
- +6.8%
- EPS CAGR
- −11.6%
- FCF CAGR
- +3.5%
Capital
- Share-count trend
- −0.6%3Y annualised
- Net debt
- $3.8B1.6x OCF
Annual trend
- CAGR 2021–2025
- +6.8%
- Latest · 2025
- $12B
- YoY
- +4.4%
GCAE Research
- Quality Research
- NOT FLAGGED
- Acceleration Radar
- NOT FLAGGED
- THE ONE
- NOT FLAGGED
- Final / Opportunity
- NOT FLAGGED
Key takeaway
Fundamental /75 is below the Stage 13 acceptable-business floor
Unresolved question
No reliable unresolved question is available from the current committed evidence.
Watch next
- Next earnings · 2026-10-29
More details & evidence
Production decision
- Stage 13
- AVOID
- Technical state
- approaching-support
- Rotation
- tailwind
- Evidence
- fresh
Presentation freshness
- Stage 11 market
- 2026-10-23 · Massive
- Financial cache
- 2026-10-02
- Quality Research
- NOT FLAGGED
- THE ONE
- NOT FLAGGED
Authority
- Company page
- Presentation only
- Scores
- Frozen GCAE production outputs
- Research
- Research-only lanes; no score override
- Private portfolio
- Not loaded