Company comparison
GIS vs HSY
Both sell branded packaged foods, but their product categories and input-cost exposure differ.
GIS report · GIS financials · HSY report · HSY financials
Price data through an unavailable date for GIS and an unavailable date for HSY. Filing periods shown by the reports are 2026-05-31 and 2026-06-28. Matching report-level filing periods do not prove that every metric covers the same window. The reports use the same financial profile.
Drawdown is the largest fall from a prior peak in the covered history. Annualized volatility describes how widely returns varied; neither measure predicts what happens next.
If you had put $1,000 in, five years ago
Price only, dividends aside. The past does not repeat, but it shows what kind of ride each one has been.
GIS▼Lost ground
Left of your $1,00038% of it gone
You would be down $378 on your $1,000.
Along the way it fell 64.5% at its worst.
HSY▲Went nowhere
Your $1,0001.0× your money
You would be up $24 on your $1,000.
Along the way it fell 47.6% at its worst. It beat GIS over the last twelve months.
Measure by measure
Good on its ownMiddlingPoor
Two things are marked on every row: which company is stronger, and whether that figure is any good in absolute terms. Winning a row does not make a number good.
Five-year returnTotal return · higher is better
What the share price did over the whole window we hold prices for.
No contest to draw. The price windows have different or unknown dates or coverage.
Over the window on file GIS returned -37.8% against HSY’s +2.4%. GIS ended it below where it started.
Last twelve months12-month return · higher is better
The most recent year on its own. A large five-year figure can hide a flat stretch right now.
No contest to draw. The price windows have different or unknown dates or coverage.
In the last twelve months GIS returned -26.4% and HSY -2.8%.
Worst dropMax drawdown · a shallower fall is better
The largest fall from a high to the low that followed it. This is what holding it would have felt like at its worst.
No contest to draw. The price windows have different or unknown dates or coverage.
GIS’s worst fall from a peak was -64.5%; HSY’s was -47.6%.
Typical year’s swingAnnualised volatility · smaller is calmer
How far the price wanders in an ordinary year, up or down.
No contest to draw. The price windows have different or unknown dates or coverage.
GIS swings about 22.1% in an ordinary year, HSY about 23.3%. Both are good on their own here.
The rows from the filingsMargins · cash · what it owes
So which one
There is not enough on file to put these two side by side.
4 measures stay open because their windows or comparison rules are not aligned.
Not advice. Every read above compares figures on file against ordinary ranges. Which one suits you depends on how long you can leave it alone and how much of a fall you can sit through.