HSY Hershey Company (The)data gap · 62% coveragelimited data
Consumer Staples · Packaged Foods & Meats · close $170.83 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-28
Hershey Company (The) (HSY) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 58/100 (grade C), ranking #26 of 52 in Consumer Staples. Its strongest pillars are cash flow (82) and profitability (55); its weakest is growth (52). Data gap: 6 factors without usable data, so 62% of the method weight is covered. TTM revenue growth is 7.7% and operating margin 17.8%.
Data as of .
Data gap
No usable data for: Consensus score (1–5), 90-day net rating shift, EPS growth YoY (TTM), FCF yield, P/E (inverted), EV/Sales (inverted). Data gap: no usable data for this factor, so it is left out and its weight is shared among the factors that do have data (no value is imputed). 62% of the full method weight is backed by data.
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · no data · —| Consensus score (1–5) (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
| 90-day net rating shift (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
Growth
weight 30.83% (→38.5%) · 52| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (25.6%) | 7.7% | 68 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
| Revenue acceleration (12.8%) | -4.0% | 20 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% (→23.1%) · 55| Operating margin (12.3%) | 17.8% | 86 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (10.8%) | -1.7% | 20 |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% (→23.1%) · 53| Net debt / EBITDA (12.3%) | 1.81× | 48 |
| Current ratio (6.2%) | 1.18 | 59 |
| Interest coverage (4.6%) | 9.62× | 59 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% (→15.4%) · 82| FCF margin (15.4%) | 15.6% | 82 |
| FCF yield (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
Valuation
weight 12.33% · no data · —| P/E (inverted) (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 59.5 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 165.43 / 165.83 |
| 200-day SMA | 189.86 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 1.31× |
| 20-day return | 1.5% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITRating break: House Rating below 60
- WATCHTrend: close below 200-day average
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax · Gross profit: GrossProfit · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestExpense · D&A: DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization.
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FAQ
- What is HSY's House Rating?
- HSY scores 58 out of 100 (grade C) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #26 of 52 Consumer Staples stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about HSY?
- We do not have enough analyst-sentiment data to score this stock.
- When does HSY report earnings next?
- HSY's next earnings report is estimated for about 2026-10-29 (window 2026-10-22 to 2026-11-05), based on its past SEC 8-K earnings filings. This is an estimate, not a company-confirmed date.
- Is HSY a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology