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Hershey (HSY) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Hershey (HSY) has disclosed Return on Equity for 16 consecutive years, with 0.19% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Equity fell 31.0% to 0.19% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.19%, a 31.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.19%, down 32.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Equity was 0.19% for Q4 2025 at Hershey, down from 0.3% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Equity ranged from a high of 0.63% in Q3 2021 to a low of 0.19% in Q4 2025.
  • A 5-year average of 0.48% and a median of 0.5% in 2023 define the central range for Return on Equity.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Equity: grew 4bps in 2024, then tumbled -31bps in 2025.
  • Hershey's Return on Equity stood at 0.56% in 2021, then dropped by -8bps to 0.52% in 2022, then fell by -10bps to 0.46% in 2023, then rose by 8bps to 0.5% in 2024, then crashed by -61bps to 0.19% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for HSY's Return on Equity are 0.19% (Q4 2025), 0.3% (Q3 2025), and 0.33% (Q2 2025).