NYSE:HSY - Hershey Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Hershey declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 26th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 24th will be given a dividend of $0.722 per share on Friday, September 14th. This represents a $2.89 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.81%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 23rd. This is a positive change from Hershey's previous quarterly dividend of $0.66. View Hershey's Dividend History.

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

Hershey Co (NYSE:HSY) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 26th. The company reported $1.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.10 by $0.04. The firm earned $1.75 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.74 billion. Hershey had a net margin of 13.40% and a return on equity of 108.82%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 5.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.09 earnings per share. View Hershey's Earnings History.

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

Hershey issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 26th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $5.33-5.43 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $5.32.

18 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Hershey's shares. Their predictions range from $85.00 to $130.00. On average, they expect Hershey's share price to reach $102.5882 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for Hershey.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hershey in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 11 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Hershey.

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Media coverage about HSY stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Hershey earned a daily sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the company an impact score of 46.57 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for Hershey.

Hershey's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (5.44%), FMR LLC (2.43%), Schroder Investment Management Group (1.13%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (1.08%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.05%) and Northern Trust Corp (0.93%). 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 Janus Henderson Group PLC, Troy Asset Management Ltd, American Century Companies Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., BlackRock Inc., Rothschild Asset Management Inc., Bartlett & Co. LLC and Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL. Company insiders that have sold Hershey company stock in the last year include D Michael Wege, David L Shedlarz, Javier H Idrovo, Kevin R Walling 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 FMR LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Mawer Investment Management Ltd., Morgan Stanley, Scharf Investments LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, BTIM Corp. and Van ECK Associates Corp. 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 $102.66.

Hershey has a market capitalization of $22.17 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.