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HSY · CIK 0000047111 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31

HERSHEY CO

GreySEC 10-KClassic ZConsumer53rd percentile in Consumer · 112 names

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Model

Classic Z

FY2025

2.11

Zone

Grey

Prior

—

Market DD

—

1y PD

—

2.11

Z″ 2.82

−21.83.08+

Score 2.11 · distress below 1.80, grey to 2.99, safe at 3.00 and above.

Classic Z factor contributions

  • X1 Working capital / assets

    Short-term liquidity versus the size of the balance sheet.

    0.04
    1.2 × = 0.05

  • X2 Retained earnings / assets

    Cushion from years of profits. Share buybacks can push this negative at otherwise healthy firms.

    0.40
    1.4 × = 0.56

  • X3 EBIT / assets

    Operating return on assets. Highest weight in the original model.

    0.10
    3.3 × = 0.35

  • X4 Book equity / liabilities

    Book equity versus the liability stack. Mega-caps often look greyer here than they would if X4 used market cap.

    0.51
    0.6 × = 0.31

  • X5 Sales / assets

    Asset turnover — how much revenue the asset base supports.

    0.85
    1 × = 0.85

Five-year path

Need two annual 10-Ks to draw a path. The desk will pull this issuer’s filings rather than invent a series.

Overview

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HERSHEY CO is on classic Z at 2.11 (grey) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Sales / assets is the line that sets the print; retained earnings / assets is the runner-up. This is the first live year on the desk. No market tape loaded. Classic Z was fit on manufacturers; buybacks can send retained earnings negative at otherwise healthy issuers, and X4 is book equity, not market cap.

Book screen Grey; market PD —. Tape not priced — not a single default call.

Market DD · naive Merton

No market tape yet.

Pull a year of closes (Yahoo, Nasdaq if Yahoo is limited) and size equity from Nasdaq cap or EDGAR shares. Distance-to-default and 1-year PD stay blank until then.

Sector peers

Closest Classic Z scores · 53rd percentile in Consumer.

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Current assets

$3.6B

Total assets

$13.7B

Current liabilities

$3.0B

Total liabilities

$9.1B

Working capital

$577M

Retained earnings

$5.5B

EBIT

$1.4B

Total sales

$11.7B

Book equity

$4.6B

Accession 0001628280-26-008586. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2025, period 2025-12-31). Classic Z is the live score. View as does not rewrite the live rank. X4 is book equity. Pulled 12 Sept 2026.