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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CLX Clorox	$124.80 +0.1%	$129.65	$117.35 ▼ $171.37	$15.39B	0.51	1.40 million shs	1.08 million shs
HRL Hormel Foods	$30.69 -0.4%	$30.13	$27.59 ▼ $33.80	$16.76B	0.33	2.70 million shs	2.55 million shs
HSY Hershey	$173.00 -2.3%	$165.42	$140.13 ▼ $208.03	$35.75B	0.3	1.80 million shs	733,761 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CLX Clorox	0.00%	+4.79%	-3.83%	-13.19%	-5.85%
HRL Hormel Foods	0.00%	+0.63%	-0.03%	-0.23%	+1.49%
HSY Hershey	0.00%	+3.54%	+7.15%	+6.71%	-5.85%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
CLX Clorox	4.7291 of 5 stars	2.9	4.0	4.2	1.6	3.5	3.3	0.6
HRL Hormel Foods	4.249 of 5 stars	2.3	2.0	4.2	1.8	3.4	0.8	1.9
HSY Hershey	3.9477 of 5 stars	1.9	2.0	3.3	1.9	2.6	1.7	1.9

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CLX Clorox	1.85	Reduce	$149.50	19.79% Upside
HRL Hormel Foods	2.57	Moderate Buy	$32.86	7.06% Upside
HSY Hershey	1.75	Reduce	$158.84	-8.18% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest HSY, CLX, and HRL Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
6/26/2025	CLX Clorox	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$167.00 ➝ $145.00
6/23/2025	HRL Hormel Foods	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Sell ➝ Buy	$35.00
5/28/2025	HSY Hershey	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$167.00 ➝ $155.00
5/27/2025	HRL Hormel Foods	BNP Paribas Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong Sell ➝ Hold
5/27/2025	HRL Hormel Foods	BNP Paribas Exane Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Underperform ➝ Neutral	$30.00
5/22/2025	HRL Hormel Foods	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$31.00 ➝ $31.00
5/7/2025	CLX Clorox	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Underweight ➝ Underweight	$134.00 ➝ $129.00
5/6/2025	CLX Clorox	Evercore ISI Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Underperform ➝ Underperform	$140.00
5/6/2025	CLX Clorox	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$165.00 ➝ $150.00
5/6/2025	CLX Clorox	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$145.00 ➝ $142.00
5/6/2025	CLX Clorox	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$151.00 ➝ $144.00

(Data available from 7/5/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CLX Clorox	$7.09B	2.17	$8.10 per share	15.40	$3.97 per share	31.44
HRL Hormel Foods	$11.92B	1.42	$2.06 per share	14.87	$14.62 per share	2.10
HSY Hershey	$11.20B	3.13	$11.44 per share	15.12	$23.30 per share	7.42

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
CLX Clorox	$280M	$5.57	22.41	17.53	3.04	9.89%	324.23%	14.91%	7/30/2025 (Estimated)
HRL Hormel Foods	$805.04M	$1.36	22.57	16.68	3.47	6.27%	10.20%	6.11%	9/3/2025 (Estimated)
HSY Hershey	$2.22B	$8.11	21.33	25.33	6.52	15.32%	38.70%	13.12%	7/30/2025 (Estimated)

Latest HSY, CLX, and HRL Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
7/30/2025	Q2 2025	HSY Hershey	$0.98	N/A	N/A	N/A	$2.50 billion	N/A
5/29/2025	Q2 2025	HRL Hormel Foods	$0.35	$0.35	N/A	$0.33	$2.92 billion	$2.90 billion
5/5/2025	Q3 2025	CLX Clorox	$1.57	$1.45	-$0.12	$1.50	$1.74 billion	$1.67 billion
5/1/2025	Q1 2025 Prepared Remarks	HSY Hershey	$1.94	$2.09	+$0.15	$1.10	$2.81 billion	$2.81 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CLX Clorox	$4.88	3.91%	N/A	87.61%	47 Years
HRL Hormel Foods	$1.16	3.78%	N/A	85.29%	60 Years
HSY Hershey	$5.48	3.17%	N/A	67.57%	15 Years

Latest HSY, CLX, and HRL Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
5/19/2025	HRL Hormel Foods	quarterly	$0.29	3.85%	7/14/2025	7/14/2025	8/15/2025
5/1/2025	HSY Hershey	quarterly	$1.37	3.28%	5/16/2025	5/16/2025	6/16/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CLX Clorox	13.07	0.74	0.44
HRL Hormel Foods	0.35	2.47	1.17
HSY Hershey	1.11	1.59	1.11

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CLX Clorox	78.53%
HRL Hormel Foods	40.99%
HSY Hershey	57.96%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CLX Clorox	0.57%
HRL Hormel Foods	0.72%
HSY Hershey	0.34%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CLX Clorox	8,000	123.25 million	122.55 million	Optionable
HRL Hormel Foods	20,000	549.90 million	545.94 million	Optionable
HSY Hershey	20,030	202.60 million	201.92 million	Optionable

HSY, CLX, and HRL Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Brookstone Capital Management Has $11.77 Million Stake in Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY)

July 5 at 6:44 AM | marketbeat.com

Principal Financial Group Inc. Lowers Stake in Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY)

July 5 at 5:30 AM | marketbeat.com

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July 4 at 10:04 PM | marketbeat.com

Inflation Is Cooling. Shrinkflation? It's Alive and Well.

July 4 at 9:13 AM | msn.com

James Turoff Sells 1,300 Shares of Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY) Stock

July 4 at 7:49 AM | insidertrades.com

44 Wealth Management LLC Has $3.21 Million Holdings in Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY)

July 4 at 7:28 AM | marketbeat.com

DAVENPORT & Co LLC Lowers Stock Position in Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY)

July 4 at 4:54 AM | marketbeat.com

Vontobel Holding Ltd. Grows Position in Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY)

July 4 at 4:44 AM | marketbeat.com

James Turoff Sells 1,300 Shares of Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY) Stock

July 3 at 9:09 PM | marketbeat.com

Insider Selling: Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY) Insider Sells 1,333 Shares of Stock

July 3 at 9:09 PM | marketbeat.com

Insider Sell: Rohit Grover Sells Shares of The Hershey Co

July 3 at 8:09 PM | gurufocus.com

Insider Selling: Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY) CEO Sells 19,290 Shares of Stock

July 3 at 6:23 PM | marketbeat.com

Hershey (HSY) president Grover Rohit sells $233,275 in stock

July 3 at 6:09 PM | investing.com

Sixth Street Appoints John D. Hershey to Board

July 3 at 4:48 PM | tipranks.com

Sixth Street Specialty Lending appoints John D. Hershey to board of directors

July 3 at 4:23 PM | investing.com

Why Hershey (HSY) is Poised to Beat Earnings Estimates Again

July 3 at 1:11 PM | zacks.com

Barlow Wealth Partners Inc. Takes Position in Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY)

July 3 at 9:02 AM | marketbeat.com

St. James Investment Company LLC Buys 50,290 Shares of Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY)

July 3 at 7:48 AM | marketbeat.com

Smart Money Group LLC Raises Stake in Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY)

July 3 at 7:47 AM | marketbeat.com

Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY) Stake Increased by Novem Group

July 3 at 6:28 AM | marketbeat.com

Hudson Edge Investment Partners Inc. Acquires 3,102 Shares of Hershey Company (The) (NYSE:HSY)

July 3 at 6:27 AM | marketbeat.com

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HSY, CLX, and HRL Company Descriptions

Clorox NYSE:CLX

$124.80 +0.14 (+0.11%)

Closing price 07/3/2025 03:53 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$124.80 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 07/3/2025 04:50 PM Eastern

The Clorox Company manufactures and markets consumer and professional products worldwide. It operates through four segments: Health and Wellness, Household, Lifestyle, and International. The Health and Wellness segment offers cleaning products, such as laundry additives and home care products primarily under the Clorox, Clorox2, Scentiva, Pine-Sol, Liquid-Plumr, Tilex, and Formula 409 brands; professional cleaning and disinfecting products under the CloroxPro and Clorox Healthcare brands; professional food service products under the Hidden Valley brand; and vitamins, minerals and supplement products under the RenewLife, Natural Vitality, NeoCell, and Rainbow Light brands in the United States. The Household segment provides cat litter products under the Fresh Step and Scoop Away brands; bags and wraps under the Glad brand; and grilling products under the Kingsford brand in the United States. The Lifestyle segment offers dressings, dips, seasonings, and sauces primarily under the Hidden Valley brand; natural personal care products under the Burt's Bees brand; and water-filtration products under the Brita brand in the United States. The International segment provides laundry additives; home care products; water-filtration systems; digestive health products; grilling products; cat litter products; food products; bags and wraps; natural personal care products; and professional cleaning and disinfecting products internationally primarily under the Clorox, Ayudin, Clorinda, Poett, Pine-Sol, Glad, Brita, RenewLife, Ever Clean and Burt's Bees brands. It sells its products primarily through mass retailers; grocery outlets; warehouse clubs; dollar stores; home hardware centers; drug, pet, and military stores; third-party and owned e-commerce channels; and distributors, as well as a direct sales force The Clorox Company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Hormel Foods NYSE:HRL

$30.69 -0.12 (-0.39%)

Closing price 07/3/2025 03:56 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$30.62 -0.07 (-0.21%)

As of 07/3/2025 04:31 PM Eastern

Hormel Foods Corporation develops, processes, and distributes various meat, nuts, and other food products to retail, foodservice, deli, and commercial customers in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Retail, Foodservice, and International segments. The company provides various perishable products that include fresh meats, frozen items, refrigerated meal solutions, sausages, hams, guacamoles, and bacons; and shelf-stable products comprising canned luncheon meats, nut butters, snack nuts, chili, shelf-stable microwaveable meals, hash, stews, tortillas, salsas, tortilla chips, nutritional food supplements, and others. It sells its products under the HORMEL, ALWAYS TENDER, APPLEGATE, AUSTIN BLUES, BACON 1, BLACK LABEL, BREAD READY, BURKE, CAFÉ H, CERATTI, CHI-CHI'S, COLUMBUS, COMPLEATS, CORN NUTS, CURE 81, DAN'S PRIZE, DI LUSSO, DINTY MOORE, DON MIGUEL, DOÑA MARIA, EMBASA, FAST N EASY, FIRE BRAISED, FONTANINI, HAPPY LITTLE PLANTS, HERDEZ, HORMEL GATHERINGS, HORMEL SQUARE TABLE, HORMEL VITAL CUISINE, HOUSE OF TSANG, JENNIE-O, JUSTIN'S, LA VICTORIA, LAYOUT, LLOYD'S, MARY KITCHEN, MR. PEANUT, NATURAL CHOICE, NUT-RITION, OLD SMOKEHOUSE, OVEN READY, PILLOW PACK, PLANTERS, ROSA GRANDE, SADLER'S SMOKEHOUSE, SKIPPY, SPAM, SPECIAL RECIPE, THICK & EASY, VALLEY FRESH, AND WHOLLY brands through sales personnel, independent brokers, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Geo. A. Hormel & Company and changed its name to Hormel Foods Corporation in January 1995. Hormel Foods Corporation was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Austin, Minnesota.

Hershey NYSE:HSY

$173.00 -4.08 (-2.30%)

Closing price 07/3/2025 03:58 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$174.71 +1.71 (+0.99%)

As of 07/3/2025 04:20 PM Eastern

The Hershey Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products and pantry items in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America Confectionery, North America Salty Snacks, and International. It offers chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products; gum and mint refreshment products, including mints, chewing gums, and bubble gums; protein bars; pantry items, such as baking ingredients, toppings, beverages, and sundae syrups; and snack items comprising spreads, bars, snack bites, mixes, popcorn, and pretzels. The company provides its products primarily under the Hershey's, Reese's, Kisses, Jolly Rancher, Almond Joy, Brookside, barkTHINS, Cadbury, Good & Plenty, Heath, Kit Kat, Payday, Rolo, Twizzlers, Whoppers, York, Ice Breakers, Breath Savers, Bubble Yum, Lily's, SkinnyPop, Pirates Booty, Dot's Homestyle Pretzels, and ONE Bar brands, as well as under the Pelon Pelo Rico, IO-IO, and Sofit brands. It markets and sells its products to wholesale distributors, chain grocery stores, mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, vending companies, wholesale clubs, convenience stores, dollar stores, concessionaires, and department stores. The company exports its products in approximately 80 countries worldwide. The Hershey Company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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