Hershey (HSY) Cost of Revenue (2009 - 2026)
Hershey's Cost of Revenue came in at $1.76 billion for Q3 2026, down 17.7% from $2.14 billion a year earlier but up 15.8% from the prior quarter.
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Hershey (HSY) Cost of Revenue (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
Over the trailing twelve months to Sep 27, 2026, Hershey reported Cost of Revenue of $7.12 billion, down 0.5% year-over-year; for FY2025, it was $7.77 billion, up 31.7% from FY2024.
- Cost of Revenue carries a five-year compound annual growth rate of 11.8% (FY2020 to FY2025).
- Going back by year, Cost of Revenue was $5.9 billion in FY2024 (-4.3%), $6.17 billion in FY2023 (+4.2%), $5.92 billion in FY2022 (+20.3%) and $4.92 billion in FY2021 (+10.7%).
- The five-year range for quarterly Cost of Revenue is $1.24 billion (Q2 2024) to $2.14 billion (Q3 2025).
- Year-over-year, Cost of Revenue increased in five of the last eight quarters, with growth averaging 10.9%.
- The fastest year-over-year change in Cost of Revenue over five years came in Q2 2025 (growth of 46.6%), and the weakest in Q3 2026 (a decline of 17.7%).
- Business Quant data shows HSY's Cost of Revenue at $1.52 billion (Q2 2026), $1.88 billion (Q1 2026) and $1.95 billion (Q4 2025) in the three quarters before Q3 2026.
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Hershey Cost of Revenue API
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Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=cost-of-revenue&ticker=HSY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "cost-of-revenue", "ticker": "HSY", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=cost-of-revenue&ticker=HSY&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();