Growth Metrics

Hershey (HSY) Debt Ratio (2016 - 2025)

Hershey (HSY) has disclosed Debt Ratio for 17 consecutive years, with 0.39 as the latest value for Q2 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Debt Ratio rose 18.69% to 0.39 in Q2 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Jun 2025 was 0.39, a 18.69% increase, with the full-year FY2024 number at 0.35, up 0.99% from a year prior.
  • Debt Ratio was 0.39 for Q2 2025 at Hershey, down from 0.41 in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Debt Ratio ranged from a high of 0.48 in Q3 2021 to a low of 0.32 in Q3 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.4 and a median of 0.39 in 2025 define the central range for Debt Ratio.
  • Peak YoY movement for Debt Ratio: dropped 23.6% in 2022, then rose 25.21% in 2025.
  • Hershey's Debt Ratio stood at 0.48 in 2021, then dropped by 23.6% to 0.37 in 2022, then fell by 6.73% to 0.34 in 2023, then increased by 0.99% to 0.35 in 2024, then grew by 12.69% to 0.39 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for HSY's Debt Ratio are 0.39 (Q2 2025), 0.41 (Q1 2025), and 0.35 (Q4 2024).