HSY
StockThe Hershey Company
One email when a drop — in price or in valuation — is historically rare for HSY. Otherwise we stay quiet.
This is the kind of decline worth waking up for.
The Hershey Company is 37.4% off its high — among the deepest declines in its recorded history.
Valuation is notable too — P/S Severity Score 2.3, below its typical range.
Very Large
Current Drawdown
-37.4%
Days in Drawdown
1228
Avg Max Drawdown
4.1%
Avg Length
49
Drawdown Severity Score™
8.1
HSY - Price & High Water Mark
HSY - Drawdown Timeline
How to read this chart: Negative values indicate drawdowns from all-time highs. Values closer to 0% mean the stock is near its high water mark.
Valuation vs Its Own History
Data as of October 6, 2026 · updated daily
Where today's valuation sits within HSY's own multi-year range, scored with the same Drawdown Severity Score language as price, measured from its typical level rather than its record high — a higher score means it has rarely been cheaper. This is context, not a recommendation.
Price to Sales
The Hershey Company has been cheaper on this measure only about 36% of the time in 20 years of daily history.
Price to Sales history
EV to EBITDA
The Hershey Company has been cheaper on this measure only about 38% of the time in 20 years of daily history.
EV to EBITDA history · log scale
The Hershey Company (HSY) Analysis: Current Drawdown Insights
The Hershey Company is currently in a drawdown that is unusual by its own historical standards. As of 2026-10-07, the stock is trading at $160.34, which represents a 37.4% decline from its all-time high of $255.98. This drawdown has persisted for 1228 days.
Based on its full tracked price history, The Hershey Company typically experiences drawdowns averaging 4.1% in depth, with an average duration of 49 days. The Hershey Company has gone through 265 total drawdown events in its tracked history. The largest drawdown on record for The Hershey Company was 49.2%, beginning in 2005. The longest drawdown duration on record was 2160 days.
The Drawdown Severity Score™ for The Hershey Company currently stands at 8.09. This is our proprietary indicator that shows the relative severity of the current drawdown based on the asset's unique historical patterns. A score between 8.0 and 12.0 indicates an extremely rare, severe drawdown: the asset almost never experiences declines of this magnitude in its tracked history.
Understanding Drawdowns: A drawdown measures how far a stock has fallen from its peak price. Every stock experiences drawdowns: periods when the price declines from all-time highs before recovering. By analyzing The Hershey Company's historical drawdown patterns, investors can identify when the stock is experiencing a typical market fluctuation versus an unusual decline that is rare by that stock's own historical standards.
📜 Historical Drawdown Events
Current drawdown shown in blue. Showing the most recent and the deepest of 265 tracked pullbacks (68 listed).
| Start Date | End Date | Duration | Max Depth | Start Price | Lowest Price | Recovery Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-28 | Ongoing | 1228 days | -37.4% | $255.98 | $160.34 | n/a |
| 2023-04-28 | 2023-05-01 | 4 days | -0.1% | $253.18 | $252.93 | $255.98 |
| 2023-04-26 | 2023-04-27 | 2 days | -0.5% | $243.60 | $242.46 | $253.18 |
| 2023-04-10 | 2023-04-20 | 11 days | -1.4% | $240.71 | $237.39 | $241.22 |
| 2023-03-29 | 2023-03-30 | 2 days | -0.1% | $234.26 | $233.98 | $234.62 |
| 2023-03-17 | 2023-03-24 | 8 days | -0.9% | $226.94 | $224.85 | $229.59 |
| 2023-02-22 | 2023-03-14 | 20 days | -1.8% | $223.14 | $219.21 | $224.16 |
| 2022-12-09 | 2023-02-17 | 71 days | -11.1% | $222.55 | $197.84 | $222.95 |
| 2022-10-31 | 2022-12-08 | 39 days | -9.4% | $220.28 | $199.48 | $222.55 |
| 2022-10-26 | 2022-10-27 | 2 days | -0.6% | $214.91 | $213.69 | $215.20 |
| 2022-08-25 | 2022-10-25 | 62 days | -5.9% | $214.24 | $201.60 | $214.91 |
| 2022-08-22 | 2022-08-24 | 3 days | -0.8% | $214.05 | $212.44 | $214.24 |
| 2022-08-17 | 2022-08-18 | 2 days | -0.1% | $210.84 | $210.62 | $211.73 |
| 2022-08-02 | 2022-08-15 | 14 days | -2.0% | $209.98 | $205.78 | $210.48 |
| 2022-04-21 | 2022-08-01 | 103 days | -11.6% | $208.98 | $184.83 | $209.98 |
| 2022-04-13 | 2022-04-19 | 7 days | -0.7% | $205.65 | $204.19 | $206.52 |
| 2022-04-04 | 2022-04-06 | 3 days | -1.0% | $199.05 | $197.01 | $201.76 |
| 2022-03-31 | 2022-04-01 | 2 days | -0.0% | $197.12 | $197.11 | $199.05 |
| 2022-03-08 | 2022-03-25 | 17 days | -4.4% | $194.15 | $185.62 | $195.05 |
| 2022-02-09 | 2022-03-02 | 22 days | -4.5% | $187.51 | $179.07 | $189.28 |
| 2022-02-04 | 2022-02-07 | 4 days | -0.6% | $184.72 | $183.68 | $185.43 |
| 2022-01-24 | 2022-02-03 | 11 days | -3.1% | $181.48 | $175.85 | $184.72 |
| 2022-01-20 | 2022-01-21 | 2 days | -0.2% | $180.84 | $180.41 | $181.48 |
| 2022-01-18 | 2022-01-19 | 2 days | -0.6% | $180.74 | $179.64 | $180.84 |
| 2022-01-06 | 2022-01-14 | 9 days | -1.5% | $178.45 | $175.76 | $180.74 |
| 2022-01-03 | 2022-01-04 | 2 days | -0.1% | $175.25 | $175.02 | $176.51 |
| 2021-12-17 | 2021-12-31 | 15 days | -2.5% | $174.04 | $169.69 | $175.25 |
| 2021-12-14 | 2021-12-15 | 2 days | -0.5% | $170.88 | $170.02 | $171.90 |
| 2021-11-24 | 2021-12-08 | 15 days | -3.7% | $165.05 | $158.98 | $165.97 |
| 2021-10-15 | 2021-11-23 | 40 days | -4.1% | $164.22 | $157.44 | $165.05 |
| 2021-08-18 | 2021-10-14 | 58 days | -6.9% | $163.33 | $152.03 | $164.22 |
| 2021-07-21 | 2021-08-16 | 27 days | -2.1% | $161.67 | $158.28 | $162.46 |
| 2021-07-19 | 2021-07-20 | 2 days | -0.3% | $161.41 | $160.90 | $161.67 |
| 2021-07-13 | 2021-07-14 | 2 days | -0.5% | $158.56 | $157.77 | $159.24 |
| 2021-07-08 | 2021-07-09 | 2 days | -0.4% | $158.34 | $157.64 | $158.50 |
| 2021-06-28 | 2021-07-07 | 10 days | -1.8% | $157.04 | $154.24 | $158.34 |
| 2021-06-07 | 2021-06-25 | 19 days | -2.6% | $156.84 | $152.78 | $157.04 |
| 2021-05-26 | 2021-06-04 | 10 days | -1.2% | $156.68 | $154.82 | $156.84 |
| 2021-05-19 | 2021-05-20 | 2 days | -0.3% | $154.23 | $153.77 | $155.22 |
| 2021-05-14 | 2021-05-17 | 4 days | -0.3% | $153.16 | $152.73 | $153.96 |
| 2021-05-11 | 2021-05-13 | 3 days | -1.6% | $152.01 | $149.59 | $153.16 |
| 2021-05-07 | 2021-05-10 | 4 days | -0.1% | $150.51 | $150.39 | $152.01 |
| 2021-04-22 | 2021-04-29 | 8 days | -2.6% | $145.44 | $141.66 | $146.58 |
| 2021-03-30 | 2021-04-20 | 22 days | -1.8% | $143.82 | $141.17 | $144.77 |
| 2020-03-05 | 2021-03-26 | 386 days | -30.8% | $140.53 | $97.29 | $142.16 |
| 2020-02-24 | 2020-03-04 | 10 days | -10.2% | $139.98 | $125.72 | $140.53 |
| 2019-09-05 | 2020-02-20 | 169 days | -13.1% | $139.51 | $121.27 | $139.79 |
| 2019-08-29 | 2019-09-04 | 7 days | -1.6% | $138.72 | $136.57 | $139.51 |
| 2019-08-23 | 2019-08-26 | 4 days | -0.9% | $136.90 | $135.74 | $137.48 |
| 2019-08-20 | 2019-08-21 | 2 days | -0.8% | $135.71 | $134.60 | $136.56 |
| 2019-08-13 | 2019-08-19 | 7 days | -2.2% | $134.10 | $131.11 | $135.71 |
| 2017-12-20 | 2019-03-01 | 437 days | -21.9% | $95.43 | $74.51 | $96.01 |
| 2016-08-23 | 2017-05-19 | 270 days | -16.5% | $90.90 | $75.94 | $90.95 |
| 2015-01-23 | 2016-06-30 | 524 days | -23.3% | $85.22 | $65.40 | $90.58 |
| 2014-02-25 | 2014-12-23 | 302 days | -18.0% | $81.78 | $67.04 | $82.03 |
| 2005-05-17 | 2011-04-15 | 2160 days | -49.2% | $40.37 | $20.52 | $40.58 |
| 2002-07-30 | 2003-11-04 | 463 days | -22.0% | $22.86 | $17.83 | $22.88 |
| 2002-02-26 | 2002-07-25 | 149 days | -20.1% | $20.63 | $16.49 | $22.52 |
| 1998-10-23 | 2002-02-20 | 1217 days | -49.0% | $20.25 | $10.34 | $20.28 |
| 1998-04-13 | 1998-10-22 | 193 days | -20.2% | $20.25 | $16.15 | $20.25 |
| 1996-11-27 | 1997-03-19 | 113 days | -17.1% | $13.35 | $11.07 | $13.57 |
| 1993-03-09 | 1995-04-13 | 765 days | -24.0% | $6.68 | $5.07 | $6.77 |
| 1992-01-06 | 1992-07-21 | 197 days | -12.9% | $5.20 | $4.53 | $5.22 |
| 1991-06-03 | 1991-12-30 | 211 days | -14.9% | $5.04 | $4.29 | $5.17 |
| 1990-07-31 | 1990-12-12 | 135 days | -13.1% | $4.38 | $3.81 | $4.40 |
| 1989-11-20 | 1990-06-07 | 199 days | -19.9% | $4.01 | $3.21 | $4.01 |
| 1987-10-08 | 1989-07-27 | 659 days | -40.5% | $3.79 | $2.25 | $3.80 |
| 1986-08-25 | 1987-08-13 | 354 days | -28.6% | $3.03 | $2.17 | $3.12 |
| 1985-12-05 | 1986-02-14 | 72 days | -14.2% | $1.83 | $1.57 | $1.83 |
How to read: Each row shows a complete drawdown from peak to recovery. Red rows = most severe drawdowns (worst 20% or 5x+ average), yellow rows = moderate (2x-5x worse than average).
Know the Moment Severity Changes
See 9 real alerts from the past 5 years with actual returns
Average gain: +1067% • Real alerts • Real results
Monitor 3 stocks free · No credit card required
Or explore current drawdowns:
The Hershey Company (HSY) is trading at $160.34 as of Oct 7, 2026. It is 37.4% below its high of $255.98. The drawdown has lasted 1,228 days. Severity score: 8.1 (Very Large).
HSY Price History and Drawdown Data
Latest price
$160.34
High-water mark
$255.98
Current drawdown
-37.4%
Days in drawdown
1,228
This HSY page is built around daily price history, the latest high-water mark, current drawdown depth, drawdown duration, and comparable historical drawdown events. The chart above provides the price-history context, while the sections below explain how the current move compares with prior The Hershey Company drawdowns.
What History Says About HSY
The Hershey Company has dropped 25%+ from its high 5 times in its tracked history. These events lasted an average of 955 days with an average max drop of -39.6%.
The current drawdown of -37.4% has lasted 1,228 days, which is 1.3x the average duration of comparable events.
| Period | Max Drop | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| May 2005 to Apr 2011 | -49.2% | 2160 days |
| Oct 1998 to Feb 2002 | -49.0% | 1217 days |
| Oct 1987 to Jul 1989 | -40.5% | 659 days |
| Mar 2020 to Mar 2021 | -30.8% | 386 days |
| Aug 1986 to Aug 1987 | -28.6% | 354 days |
Track HSY in a weekly digest
Get one weekly drawdown digest and a reminder to build a watchlist for tickers like The Hershey Company. No per-article blasts.
Related Articles
HSY's 24% Pullback: Historical Context
May 29, 2026 · 5 min read
HSY's 23% Pullback: Historical Context
May 27, 2026 · 5 min read
Learn More About Drawdowns
What is a Drawdown?
Definition, formula, and real examples
Biggest Drawdowns Ranked
How this asset's decline compares with the deepest in the tracked record
S&P 500 Drawdown History
Every major index decline with depth, duration, and recovery
Understanding Severity Scores
How our scoring compares to maximum drawdown
Our Methodology
Technical details behind the data
The Drawdown Severity Score
Our proprietary scoring algorithm explained
Latest Analysis
Blog posts and market commentary
Signal of the Day
A daily drawdown signal from the full market database
Explore All Tickers
Browse stocks, ETFs, and crypto drawdowns