NYSE:HSY - Hershey Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Hershey announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 25th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 23rd will be paid a dividend of $0.773 per share on Monday, September 16th. This represents a $3.09 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.96%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 22nd. This is a boost from Hershey's previous quarterly dividend of $0.72. View Hershey's Dividend History.

Hershey announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, October 26th 2017, which permits the company to repurchase $100,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Hershey Co (NYSE:HSY) issued its earnings results on Thursday, July, 25th. The company reported $1.31 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.18 by $0.13. The company earned $1.77 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.77 billion. Hershey had a net margin of 15.51% and a return on equity of 83.29%. The company's revenue was up .9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $1.14 earnings per share. View Hershey's Earnings History.

Hershey is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Hershey.

Hershey issued an update on its FY 2019 earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 25th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $5.68-5.74 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $5.74. The company issued revenue guidance of $7.946922-7.946922 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $7.95 billion.

13 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Hershey's stock. Their predictions range from $110.00 to $170.00. On average, they anticipate Hershey's stock price to reach $138.3846 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Hershey.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Hershey in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 10 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Hershey.

News headlines about HSY stock have been trending negative on Monday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Hershey earned a news sentiment score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Hershey.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Hershey investors own include Walt Disney (DIS), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Chevron (CVX), Procter & Gamble (PG), NVIDIA (NVDA), The Coca-Cola (KO), Boeing (BA), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Intel (INTC) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Hershey's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.81%), Vanguard Group Inc. (5.62%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.02%), APG Asset Management N.V. (1.30%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (1.14%) and Janus Henderson Group PLC (1.13%). Company insiders that own Hershey stock include Anthony J Palmer, D Michael Wege, Damien Atkins, David L Shedlarz, Hershey Trust Co, Hershey Trust Co Trustee In Tr, Javier H Idrovo, Kevin R Walling, Michele Buck, Patricia A Little, Steven E Voskuil, Terence L O'day and Todd W Tillemans. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Hershey.

HSY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hershey Trust Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Scharf Investments LLC, Morgan Stanley, AQR Capital Management LLC, Marathon Asset Management LLP, TD Asset Management Inc. and Panagora Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Hershey company stock in the last year include Anthony J Palmer, Hershey Trust Co, Hershey Trust Co Trustee In Tr, Javier H Idrovo, Kevin R Walling, Michele Buck, Patricia A Little and Terence L O'day. View Insider Buying and Selling for Hershey.

HSY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including APG Asset Management N.V., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Vanguard Group Inc., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., Unigestion Holding SA and California Public Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have bought Hershey stock in the last two years include Damien Atkins, Steven E Voskuil and Todd W Tillemans. 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 $157.77.

Hershey has a market capitalization of $33.07 billion and generates $7.79 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.18 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.36 on an earnings per share basis. Hershey employs 16,420 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Hershey.

The official website for Hershey is http://www.hersheys.com/.

Hershey's mailing address is 19 East Chocolate Avenue, Hershey PA, 17033. The company can be reached via phone at 717-534-4200.