Hershey (HSY) FCF Payout Ratio (2009 - 2026)

Hershey (HSY) has 18 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.81 in Q1 2026.

• FCF Payout Ratio for Q1 2026 came in at 0.81, down 24.81% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 0.43 (down 3.35% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 0.6, up 5.69% from the prior year.
• FCF Payout Ratio rose to 0.81 in Q1 2026 per HSY's latest filing, from 0.34 in the prior quarter.
• Over five years, FCF Payout Ratio peaked at 7.49 in Q2 2025 and troughed at 0.09 in Q3 2025.
• A 5-year average of 0.92 and a median of 0.36 in 2023 frame the typical range for FCF Payout Ratio.
• The sharpest annual moves came in 2023 and 2024: FCF Payout Ratio soared 696.84% in 2023, then sank 80.02% in 2024.
• A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.34 in 2022, then soared by 30.53% to 0.44 in 2023, then slipped by 24.58% to 0.34 in 2024, then increased by 2.68% to 0.34 in 2025, then soared by 136.26% to 0.81 in 2026.
• Business Quant data shows HSY's FCF Payout Ratio at 0.81 in Q1 2026, 0.34 in Q4 2025, and 0.09 in Q3 2025.