Consumer Staples / Food ConfectionersUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Fair value pending

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Market cap

27.7B

London Stock Exchange

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E20.9

P25 11P50 13.6P75 18

Trailing P/E33.6

P25 12.6P50 17.8P75 24.1

ROE23.2

P25 3.9P50 12.2P75 21.7

ROIC13.5

P25 4.9P50 10.3P75 14.3

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All LON/0J4X market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Showing 232 of 232 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Country	United States
Country code	UK
Employees	18,573
Employees Change	-435%
Employees Change Percent	-2.17
Enterprise value	$31.2B
Exchange	London Stock Exchange
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-10
Industry	Food Confectioners
Isin	US4278661081
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$27.7B
Price	$187
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	485,818.75x
Sector	Consumer Staples
Sic	2060
Symbol	lon/0J4X
Website	https://www.thehersheycompany.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	2.97%
EV Earnings	37.9x
EV/EBIT	24.39x
EV/EBITDA	18.29x
EV/FCF	21.53x
EV/Sales	3.55x
FCF yield	5.24%
Forward P/E	20.94x
P/B ratio	7.77x
P/E ratio	33.62x
P/S ratio	3.07x
PE Ratio10 Y	24.21x
PE Ratio3 Y	24.97x
PE Ratio5 Y	25.99x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	14.54%
EBITDA Margin	18.85%
FCF margin	16.06%
Gross margin	35.03%
Gross Profit	$3.2B
Gross Profit Growth	-8.22%
Gross Profit Growth Q	29.49%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	-3.23%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	1.55%
Net Income	$823.3M
Net Income Growth	-33.61%
Net Income Growth Q	94.07%
Net Income Growth Quarters	1%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-13.64%
Net Income Growth5 Y	-4.86%
Pretax Margin	12.37%
Profit Margin	9.12%
Profit Per Employee	$44,329
Profitable Years	14
ROA	7.84
Roa5y	12.42
ROCE	16.14
ROE	23.23
Roe5y	46.66
ROIC	13.55
Roic5y	23.18

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr1y	14.42%
Cagr3y	-9.53%
Cagr5y	4.66%
Div CAGR3	7.71%
Div CAGR5	11.36%
EPS Growth	-33.84
EPS Growth Q	93.64
EPS Growth Quarters	1
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	-13.27
EPS Growth5 Y	-4.38
FCF Growth	5.76%
FCF Growth Q	41.03%
FCF Growth3 Y	0.94%
FCF Growth5 Y	3.69%
OCF Growth	-0.41%
OCF Growth Q	18.18%
OCF Growth10 Y	6.73%
OCF Growth3 Y	-1.07%
OCF Growth5 Y	2.63%
Revenue Growth	11.5x
Revenue Growth Q	10.65x
Revenue Growth Quarters	4x
Revenue Growth Years	10x
Revenue Growth3 Y	3.74x
Revenue Growth5 Y	7.36x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.86
Assets	$10.4B
Cash	$659.9M
Current Assets	$2.8B
Current Liabilities	$2.2B
Debt	$4.3B
Debt EBITDA	$2.44
Debt Equity	$1.2
Debt FCF	$2.95
Equity	$3.6B
Interest Coverage	7.62
Liabilities	$6.9B
Long Term Assets	$7.7B
Long Term Liabilities	$4.6B
Net Cash	$-3.6B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-13.06
Net Debt EBITDA	$2.13
Net Debt Equity	$1.01
Net Debt FCF	$2.49
Tangible Book Value	$-792.1M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-3.91
WACC	4.39

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	1.24
Inventory Turnover	5.38
Net Working Capital	$432.7M
Quick ratio	0.61
Working Capital	$548.4M
Working Capital Turnover	$7.17

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-0.26%
Dividend Growth	-3.64%
Dividend Growth Years	0%
Dividend per share	$4.16
Dividend Years	9
Dividend Yield	2.23%
Ex Div Date	2026-02-17
Last Dividend	$1.07
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	102.82%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
1Y total return	14.41%
200-day SMA	193.3
3Y total return	-25.95%
50-day SMA	206.3
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	25.6%
All Time High	276.8
All Time High Change	-32.53%
All Time High Date	2023-05-02
All Time Low	85.09
All Time Low Change	119.45%
All Time Low Date	2019-03-26
ATR	7.01
Beta	0.07
Ch YTD	1.91
High	188.5
High52	240
High52 Date	2026-03-03
High52ch	-22.2%
Low	183.2
Low52	150.3
Low52 Date	2025-05-22
Low52ch	24.2%
Ma50ch	-9.5%
Price vs 200-day SMA	-3.4%
RSI	38.16
RSI Monthly	49.08
RSI Weekly	44.4
Sharpe ratio	0.52x
Sortino ratio	1.01
Total Return	1.97%
Tr YTD	2.58
Tr1m	-10.17%
Tr1w	3.35%
Tr3m	-18.83%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Operating Income	$1.3B
Operating Income Growth	-24.58
Operating Income Growth Q	69.73
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-9.12
Operating Income Growth5 Y	-2.36
Operating margin	14.54

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	145,744,568%
Net Borrowing	-431,813,090.2
Shares Insiders	0.25%
Shares Institutions	91.64%
Shares Qo Q	0.33%
Shares Yo Y	0.26%
Short Ratio	4.85

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$1.4B
Average Volume	891.9x
Bv Per Share	17.56
CAPEX	$-318.8M
Ch1m	-10.17
Ch1w	3.35
Ch1y	10.99
Ch3m	-19.36
Ch3y	-31.85
Ch5y	11.39
Ch6m	10.01
Change	0.46%
Change From Open	-0.2
Close	185.9
Days Gap	0.66
Depreciation Amortization	379,328,696.4
Dollar Volume	34,169.8
Earnings Date	2026-04-30
EBIT	$1.3B
EBITDA	$1.7B
EPS	$4.04
F Score	6
FCF	$1.4B
FCF EV Yield	4.64x
Financing CF	-1,311,763,644
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,894
Goodwill	2,196,651,441.7
Graham Number	54.79745
Graham Upside	-70.65
Income Tax	$292.8M
Investing CF	-939,725,922
Is Primary Listing	0
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Last Report Date	2026-03-29
Lynch Fair Value	$27.77
Lynch Upside	-85.13
Ma150	196
Ma150ch	-4.76%
Ma20	189.4
Ma20ch	-1.43%
Net CF	-480,283,542
Open	187.1
P FCF Ratio	19.1
P OCF Ratio	15.66
Payment Date	2026-03-16
Position In Range	66.22
Ppne	2,788,644,918.2
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$16.27
Relative Volume	0.18x
Revenue	9,023,111,570x
SBC By Revenue	0.58x
Share Based Comp	51,945,262
Tax By Revenue	3.24x
Tax Rate	26.23%
Tr6m	11.59%
Volume	183
Z Score	4.38

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Income

LON/0J4X dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+2.2%

$4.16 annual per share

Payout ratio

+102.8%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+11.4%

0 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+2.0%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-02-17

Performance

LON/0J4X stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns LON/0J4X?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+91.6%

Share of float held by funds and institutions

Insider ownership

+0.2%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

LON/0J4X momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

38.2

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-3.4%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.07

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.52

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

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