HSY
The Hershey Company
Is HSY Halal?
Confectionery and salty-snack manufacturer — permissible consumer-packaged-goods business with manageable financial-screen profile.
What You Should Know
The Hershey Company manufactures confectionery and salty snacks including chocolate, sugar confectionery, gum, popcorn and pretzels. Consumer food activity is generally permissible, while ingredients, SKUs and market certification remain qualitative. Its March 29, 2026 Form 10-Q reports total assets of $13,841.293 million, conservative debt and leases of $5,681.148 million, cash of $876.976 million, receivables of $974.555 million and quarterly revenue of $3,104.167 million. Debt/assets is 41.04%, liquidity/assets is 6.34%, receivables plus cash/assets is 13.38% and disclosed investment interest/revenue is 0.16%; the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia asset-based financial screens fail.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Not all Hershey products carry external halal certification; verify individual SKUs where that matters
- •Some formulations may contain alcohol-derived flavorings or other non-halal-certified ingredients
- •The current filing-based debt/assets screen is 41.04%, above the examined 33.33% limit
- •Disclosed investment interest income is $4.932 million for the quarter; consult a qualified scholar on purification
- •Cocoa sourcing and labor practices remain ethical-stewardship considerations
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-29; calculated 2026-07-15.
5,681.148 / 13,841.293
876.976 / 13,841.293
1,851.531 / 13,841.293
4.932 / 3,104.167
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 41.04%, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity/assets is 6.34%, receivables-plus-cash/assets is 13.38% and disclosed interest income is 0.16%.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 41.04%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit; liquidity/assets is 6.34% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 13.38%.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt/assets is 41.04%, above the examined Malaysia debt limit; food-product and ingredient allocation remain qualitative.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Incomplete
A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; filing-based asset ratios remain documented.
Business-activity disclosure
Hershey manufactures confectionery and snack foods. General consumer food activity is generally permissible, while ingredient, SKU and market-specific certification allocation requires qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing does not provide a universal prohibited-revenue numerator at product and SKU level.
Purification
Hershey discloses $4.932 million of investment interest income, but no scholar-approved purification percentage is asserted for the operating business.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Amounts are USD millions from Hershey's March 29, 2026 Form 10-Q.
- Conservative debt combines $5,188.444 million of long-term debt, $169.455 million of short-term borrowings, $76.141 million of finance-lease liabilities and $323.249 million of operating-lease liabilities.
- Cash uses the reported $876.976 million cash, cash-equivalents and restricted-cash balance; receivables are $974.555 million.
- Quarterly revenue is $3,104.167 million and disclosed investment interest income is $4.932 million, or 0.16% of revenue.
- Confectionery and snack products are generally permissible, while ingredient, SKU and market certification questions remain qualitative.
This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.
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