Hershey (HSY) Payout Ratio (2009 - 2026)

Hershey (HSY) has reported Payout Ratio for 18 consecutive years, with 0.47 the latest figure, recorded in Q2 2026.

• On a quarterly basis, Payout Ratio fell 85.55% year-over-year to 0.47 in Q2 2026; TTM through Jun 2026 was 0.66, a 5.88% increase from a year earlier, with the FY2025 full-year figure at 1.23, up 151.6% from the prior year.
• Payout Ratio was 0.47 for Q2 2026 at Hershey, down from 0.66 in the prior quarter.
• Over five years, Payout Ratio peaked at 3.24 in Q2 2025 and troughed at 0.34 in Q2 2022.
• A 5-year average of 0.71 and a median of 0.46 in 2024 frame the typical range for Payout Ratio.
• Across the five-year window, Payout Ratio surged 253.33% in 2025 and slumped 85.55% in 2026, its largest moves.
• Over 5 years, Payout Ratio stood at 0.52 in 2022, then soared by 30.41% to 0.68 in 2023, then slumped by 50.16% to 0.34 in 2024, then surged by 149.7% to 0.85 in 2025, then slumped by 44.77% to 0.47 in 2026.
• The last three Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.47 (Q2 2026), 0.66 (Q1 2026), and 0.85 (Q4 2025), per Business Quant data.