NYSE:HSY - Hershey Stock Price, Price Target & More

Hershey trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HSY."

Hershey declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, May 4th. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 25th will be paid a dividend of $0.656 per share on Friday, June 15th. This represents a $2.62 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.86%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 24th. View Hershey's Dividend History.

Hershey announced that its board has approved a share buyback program on Thursday, October 26th 2017, which authorizes the company to buyback $100,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Hershey Co (NYSE:HSY) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April, 26th. The company reported $1.41 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.40 by $0.01. The company earned $1.97 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.94 billion. Hershey had a return on equity of 113.86% and a net margin of 13.25%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 4.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.31 earnings per share. View Hershey's Earnings History.

Hershey is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July, 25th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Hershey.

Hershey updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Thursday, April, 26th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $5.33-5.43 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $5.36. The company issued revenue guidance of lower end of $7.89-8.04 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.96 billion.

16 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Hershey's shares. Their predictions range from $80.00 to $130.00. On average, they anticipate Hershey's share price to reach $102.4375 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Hershey.

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Media coverage about HSY stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Hershey earned a media sentiment score of 0.07 on Accern's scale. They also gave headlines about the company an impact score of 45.67 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future.

Hershey's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (5.49%), Schroder Investment Management Group (1.02%), Northern Trust Corp (0.95%), Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.46%), American Century Companies Inc. (0.45%) and Newport Trust Co (0.42%). Company insiders that own Hershey stock include D Michael Wege, David L Shedlarz, Hershey Trust Co Trustee In Tr, Javier H Idrovo, Kevin R Walling, Leslie M Turner, Michele Buck and Terence L O'day. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Hershey.

HSY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., BlackRock Inc., Korea Investment CORP, Rothschild Asset Management Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Newport Trust Co and Swiss National Bank. Company insiders that have sold Hershey company stock in the last year include D Michael Wege, David L Shedlarz, Hershey Trust Co Trustee In Tr, Javier H Idrovo and Michele Buck. View Insider Buying and Selling for Hershey.

HSY stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Schroder Investment Management Group, Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc., American Century Companies Inc., Millennium Management LLC, Van ECK Associates Corp, Allianz Asset Management GmbH, Allianz Asset Management GmbH and Victory Capital Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Hershey.

Shares of HSY can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of HSY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $91.86.

Hershey has a market capitalization of $19.16 billion and generates $7.52 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $782.98 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.76 on an earnings per share basis. Hershey employs 16,910 workers across the globe.

Hershey's mailing address is 100 CRYSTAL A DRIVE P O BOX 810-EXTERNAL RPTG & COMPLIANCE, HERSHEY PA, 17033. The company can be reached via phone at 717-534-4200.