Hasbro Inc (HAS) stock analysis
Hasbro Inc (HAS) clears 2 of this site's 8 mechanical value filters, 4 of 8 Buffett-style checks and 2 of 5 Lynch-style checks. At $117.23 it trades 12.0% below this site's neutral DCF value (a margin of safety of +12.0%). Its earnings quality rates Strong and it returns +1.9% to shareholders net of dilution. Figures are as of October 23, 2026, from SEC filings and market data refreshed weekly; this is educational analysis, not investment advice.
Data as of October 23, 2026. Refreshed weekly from SEC filings and market data.
What does Hasbro do?
Hasbro makes toys, games and entertainment properties such as Monopoly, Transformers and Dungeons & Dragons.
Brands and businesses it owns
- Monopoly
- Transformers
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Nerf
- Play-Doh
- Magic: The Gathering
What stands out about Hasbro?
- The share price implies 4.8% yearly growth. At $117.23, HAS's free cash flow of $7.80 per share would have to grow 4.8% a year, fading to 2.5% by year 10, for this site's DCF (10% discount rate) to match the price. This site's baseline starts at 8%, so the price asks for less growth than the baseline. Change the assumptions.
- Misses 2 of the 8 value filters. It fails Market Cap > $25B ($16.3B) and Price/Book < 8 (23.15); the other 2 pass and 4 were not evaluated. See every filter.
- Close to its 52-week high. At $117.23, HAS is within 0.0% of its high of $116.17, 65.2% above its low of $70.95. See the range.
- P/E at the bottom of its own range. HAS trades at 20.6× trailing earnings; at the end of each of its last 3 fiscal years the multiple was between 20.6× and 39.6×.
- Short interest is elevated. 5.9% of the float is sold short, 4.5 days to cover, above this site's 5% flag. See the figures.
How has Hasbro's share price moved?
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Is Hasbro undervalued? The value diligence check
Every value-investing signal this site computes for this stock, gathered in one place: the same real numbers from the tools below, not a new score.
- Margin of safety (DCF) +12.0%
- P/E vs. its own history 20.6x · at/below its cheapest point Real range: 20.6x–39.6x over 3 years (net income per diluted share from each fiscal year's 10-K, paired with the real closing price at that fiscal year-end).
- Wall St. analyst rating Buy · 4.20/5 20 analysts this month: 8 strong buy, 8 buy, 4 hold, 0 sell, 0 strong sell (Finnhub).
- Altman Z″-Score (bankruptcy risk) 1.89 · Grey zone
- Earnings quality (is the profit real?) Strong · all 5 checks clean Beneish M-score −3.46 · accruals −20.4% of assets · stock comp 1.5% of revenue · share count +0.5% a year. From the latest 10-K (year to Dec 2025) - see the Earnings Quality Screener for how each check is scored.
- Shareholder yield (cash back to owners) +1.9% net Latest fiscal year (2025): dividends 2.4% + buybacks 0.0% − stock comp 0.5%, as a share of today's market cap. Over 14 years its split-adjusted share count rose 3%. See Shareholder Yield Leaders.
- Capital needed to grow (See's test) Profit did not grow in 10 years Operating profit $643M → −$279M, capital needed $2.0B → $3.7B, 2016–2025 (3-year averages); return on capital now −8% before tax. Buffett's See's Candies needed $0.42 per $1 of new profit, FlightSafety $3.20, a typical grower about $5. See Capital-Light Compounders.
- PEG (growth at a reasonable price) n/a (no PEG reported)
- Compounder lenses (4) 2 of 4 · misses capital-light, price (n/a) Capital-light growth: not cleared (profit grew -0.4×, under 2×); Profit is real: cleared; Cash to owners: cleared; Fair price (PEG): cannot be measured (no PEG reported). See Compounders at a Fair Price, which also lets you move the PEG bar.
- Value trap check Clear
- Munger's Inversion Check 2 flags
- Dividend payout sustainability 0/6 · clean
What would Buffett & Lynch say?
Buffett's checklist is built around durable, profitable businesses bought at sensible prices, and HAS doesn't clear enough of it yet. In its favor: HAS is currently earning a strong return on shareholders' equity, converts sales into profit at healthy margins, is trading below what a conservative discounted-cash-flow estimate says it's worth - his own "price is what you pay, value is what you get" test, not a fixed multiple ceiling, and trades at a reasonable multiple of owner earnings, his own term for the real cash a business could pay out. Where it comes up short: HAS and its five-year average return on equity falls short too, so this isn't just a one-off dip, carries more debt relative to equity than he typically tolerates, hasn't grown earnings per share fast enough over five years to impress him, and doesn't cover its interest expense as comfortably as he'd want.
- ROE (TTM) > 11% ✓
- ROE (5yr avg) > 11% ✕
- Debt/Equity < 0.5 ✕
- Pretax margin > 15% ✓
- EPS growth (5yr) > 7% ✕
- Interest coverage > 5x ✕
- Trading below intrinsic value (DCF) ✓
- Price vs. owner earnings < 25x ✓
Lynch looked for growth stories that weren't overpriced for that growth, and HAS falls short of his bar. In its favor: HAS isn't asking investors to overpay for that growth, and is backing its growth up with real free cash flow. Where it comes up short: HAS fails his signature PEG test, he'd call this pricey for the growth on offer, is growing earnings outside the 10–25% range he considered the sustainable sweet spot, and is leaning on more debt than he liked a growth story to carry.
- PEG < 1 n/a
- EPS growth 10%-25% ✕
- Debt/Equity < 0.5 ✕
- P/E < 27 ✓
- Price/FCF < 30 ✓
Quantitative approximations of each investor's documented approach, not endorsed by either investor or their estates - commentary, not this site's actual ranking criteria. Buffett never published a numeric checklist: only 2 of his 8 checks here trace to his own documented concepts ("owner earnings," from his 1986 shareholder letter, and "price is what you pay, value is what you get," his case against fixed P/E/P/B ceilings) - the other 6 (ROE, debt, margins, growth, interest coverage) use commonly-cited thresholds that are not numbers he himself published. The 8 hard filters below (plus the Munger check and Graham margin of safety) are this site's real, mechanical screen and are computed completely independently of the checklists above.
Berkshire Hathaway's own filing
Which of the 8 value filters does Hasbro pass?
- Market Cap > $25B $16.3B
- Trailing P/E < 25 20.56
- PEG Ratio < 1.5 n/a
- Price/Book < 8 23.15
- Price/Sales < 7 3.28
- EPS Growth YoY > -5% n/a
- vs 50-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
- vs 200-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
What is Hasbro's margin of safety?
History tracking starts this week - check back in a future week to see how this has moved.
Where is Hasbro in its 52-week range?
What is the short interest in Hasbro?
8,284,793 shares short as of 2026-09-30 (FINRA settlement date). Reported twice a month, so this only changes roughly every two weeks, not daily.
What could go wrong with Hasbro? Munger's inversion check
"Invert, always invert." Instead of reasons to buy, these are reasons to hesitate, not a verdict, and not everything worth knowing about a business.
- Margin of safety, even in the bull case +48%
- Short interest under 5% of float 5.9%
- Passes most of the 6 fundamental filters 4/6 passed
- Price run-up backed by value, not just momentum +64% off 52wk low
- Debt/equity stable since 2016 0.83 → 5.77
Doesn't cover circle of competence, management quality, or accounting concerns: those need judgment, not data.
How much have Hasbro shareholders gained per year?
Not enough clean earnings history to compute this for HAS yet - a loss year in the window breaks the growth math rather than faking a number through it.
An earnings-based proxy, not a stock-price total return - it doesn't capture multiple expansion/contraction or reinvested dividends. EPS from HAS's own 10-K filings; dividend yield is the current trailing yield on today's price, from the same weekly fetch as the rest of this site.
What do Hasbro's 10-year financials show?
From HAS's own 10-K filings (SEC EDGAR): up to the last 10 fiscal years. Press any year's bars for the exact figures.
Frequently asked questions about Hasbro
What kind of company is Hasbro?
Hasbro makes toys, games and entertainment properties such as Monopoly, Transformers and Dungeons & Dragons. Brands and businesses it owns include Monopoly, Transformers, Dungeons & Dragons, Nerf, Play-Doh and Magic: The Gathering. This site groups it with Leisure Products stocks.
Is Hasbro trading above or below its DCF value?
At $117.23, HAS trades 12.0% below this site's neutral DCF value of $133.24 per share, a margin of safety of +12.0%. That DCF projects free cash flow for 10 years, with growth starting at 8% and fading to 2.5%, discounted at 10%; it is one set of assumptions, not a forecast. Test your own in the Intrinsic Value Calculator.
How many of this site's 8 value filters does Hasbro pass?
HAS passes 2 of 8. It passes Trailing P/E < 25 (20.56) and Price/Sales < 7 (3.28). It misses Market Cap > $25B ($16.3B) and Price/Book < 8 (23.15). PEG Ratio < 1.5, EPS Growth YoY > -5%, vs 50-day MA (±12%) and vs 200-day MA (±12%) were not evaluated, because the moving-average checks only run on stocks that clear the fundamentals first. The 8-filter list shows every stock that passes all of them.
Where is Hasbro trading compared with its 52-week range?
At $117.23, HAS is at its 52-week high of $116.17, 63.7% above its 52-week low of $70.95.
How risky is Hasbro's balance sheet?
HAS's Altman Z″-Score is 1.89, which falls in the grey zone. Altman's own thresholds are above 2.6 for the safe zone, 1.1 to 2.6 for the grey zone and below 1.1 for the distress zone; the score blends working capital, retained earnings, operating profit and equity against liabilities. Its debt-to-equity ratio is 5.02, against a sector median of 5.02. See the Altman Z″-Score list.
How heavily is Hasbro stock sold short?
As of September 30, 2026, 5.9% of HAS's float was sold short (8,284,793 shares, 4.5 days to cover), up 14.2% from the prior reporting period. FINRA publishes short interest twice a month, so it changes about every two weeks; this site flags anything above 5% of the float.
Where do these numbers come from?
- Financial statements: Hasbro's 10-K annual report for the year ended Dec 28, 2025, filed Feb 25, 2026 (filing index). Every earlier year in the 10-year financials comes from the company's older 10-K filings, all listed on SEC EDGAR.
- Prices and market data: quotes, P/E and analyst ratings from Finnhub; daily price history and the 52-week range from Twelve Data, both refreshed weekly. Short interest comes from FINRA, reported twice a month.
- How to check a figure: click any number in the card above to see its exact source, and read the Editorial Standards for every rule behind the checks.
About this Hasbro Inc analysis
This page shows every value-investing check the site runs on Hasbro Inc (HAS) in one place: the 8 mechanical filters, the Buffett and Lynch checklists, a margin of safety from a disclosed DCF, earnings quality, shareholder yield and how it ranks against its sector peers. The numbers come from SEC filings and public market data, refreshed weekly, and the same rules apply to every stock on the stock list. See Editorial Standards for the sources and the rules, or run your own filters in the stock screener.