Hershey Q2 FY2026: sales $2.79B, margin 45.3%, adjusted EPS $1.90
Hershey's second quarter of FY2026 was a margin recovery story: net sales rose 6.6% to $2.79 billion and gross margin jumped to 45.3% from 30.5% a year ago, lifting reported EPS to $2.26 and adjusted EPS to $1.90. But roughly 12 points of the organic gain came from price while volume fell about 8 points, so read the profit rebound alongside shrinking unit sales.
1 · Expected vs. Actual
Free preview belowAdjusted EPS of $1.90 beat the $1.4392 consensus estimate by $0.46, or 32.0%, and rose 57.0% year over year. Reported EPS of $2.26 rose 629.0%, flattered by a $0.52 per share swing from commodity derivative mark-to-market gains that adjusted figures exclude. The comparison also laps a prior-year quarter that carried $0.90 per share of items hitting comparability.
Revenue of $2.79 billion rose 6.6% from $2.61 billion a year earlier, with the LesserEvil acquisition adding 2.7 points and foreign currency 0.3 points. Organic, constant-currency sales increased 3.6%, but that came from about 12 points of price against an 8-point volume decline. Free cash flow was $329.5 million this quarter versus $27.1 million in the same quarter last year.
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Figures on this page come from the company's original SEC filings. The analysis is generated automatically and checked against validation rules, but may still contain errors or omissions. Not investment advice. · Generated 2026-09-17
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