# THE HERSHEY COMPANY (HSY) FY2025 Annual Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: THE HERSHEY COMPANY (HSY)
- Period: 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31
- Filing: FY2025 10-K, filed 2026-02-17, accession number 0001628280-26-008586
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/hsy/fy2025-annual-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/hsy-fy2025-annual-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Jan 1, 2025 through Dec 31, 2025. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. Beginning cash: Dec 31, 2024. Ending cash: Dec 31, 2025. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Dec 31, 2024**: 730,746,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Operating activities**: 2,277,367,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Net income**: 883,259,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation and amortization**: 503,701,000 US dollars
- **Stock-based compensation expense**: 65,460,000 US dollars
- **Deferred income taxes**: 122,293,000 US dollars
- **Write-down of equity investments**: 24,483,000 US dollars
- **Other**: 101,227,000 US dollars
- **Accounts receivable—trade, net**: 98,968,000 US dollars
- **Inventories**: negative 133,320,000 US dollars
- **Prepaid expenses and other current assets**: negative 153,534,000 US dollars
- **Accounts payable and accrued liabilities**: 163,495,000 US dollars
- **Accrued income taxes**: 82,195,000 US dollars
- **Contributions to pension and other benefit plans**: negative 15,667,000 US dollars
- **Other assets and liabilities**: negative 2,041,000 US dollars
- **Unrealized losses (gains) on derivative contracts**: 530,445,000 US dollars
- **Goodwill impairment charges**: 6,403,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 1,278,717,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Capital additions (including software)**: negative 454,622,000 US dollars
- **Receipts (payments) related to equity investments in tax credit qualifying partnerships**: 11,878,000 US dollars
- **Business acquisitions, net of cash and cash equivalents acquired**: negative 756,135,000 US dollars
- **Purchase of intangible assets**: negative 73,597,000 US dollars
- **Other investing activities**: negative 6,241,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: negative 803,357,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Net (decrease) increase in short-term debt**: negative 1,098,731,000 US dollars
- **Long-term borrowings, net of debt issuance costs**: 1,984,545,000 US dollars
- **Repayment of long-term debt and finance leases**: negative 606,393,000 US dollars
- **Cash dividends paid**: negative 1,085,296,000 US dollars
- **Repurchase of common stock**: 0 US dollars
- **Exercise of stock options**: 21,297,000 US dollars
- **Payment, Tax Withholding, Share-Based Payment Arrangement**: negative 18,779,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 1,698,670,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the operating reconciliation branches. Its gross amount includes any portion of net income routed through this junction. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **financing gross reconciliation**: 2,809,199,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **investing gross reconciliation**: 1,290,595,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **Exchange-rate effect**: negative 180,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Dec 31, 2025**: 925,859,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Cash sources and uses**: 3,008,113,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: 195,113,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: 2.58×. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. Black from 0.90× through 1.10×; green above 1.10×; red below 0.90×. Color uses the unrounded ratio.
- **Operating cash flow**: 2,277,367,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 454,622,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 1,822,745,000 US dollars. A supplemental measure; finance-lease payments are excluded from this definition.

### Chart connections

- Beginning cash plus operating, investing and financing cash flows plus the exchange-rate effect equals ending cash. Negative amounts reduce cash.
- Financing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Investing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Operating reconciliation adjustments are not all independent cash receipts.
- Net income enters operating cash directly in the reconciliation. The adjustment junction contributes the remaining $1.39B after reconciling the other positive and negative adjustments. These connections depict an accounting reconciliation, not traced cash receipts.
- Each activity has one net cash bar connected to the shared cash pool. Positive activity totals enter the pool; negative activity totals leave the pool to fund that activity's net payments. The central pool does not assign a particular funding source to a particular payment.
- The intermediate calculation bars include both sides of the displayed activity breakdowns; they are not additional cash flows.
- Operating cash flow minus cash purchases of property, plant and equipment equals free cash flow: 2,277,367,000 US dollars minus 454,622,000 US dollars equals 1,822,745,000 US dollars.