Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) kicked off on Tuesday, down -1.28% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $175.54. Over the past 52 weeks, HSY has traded in a range of $168.16-$211.92.
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Consumer Defensive Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 7.59% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -5.34%. With a float of $147.26 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $149.78 million.
The firm has a total of 20505 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 43.48%, operating margin of 21.6%, and the pretax margin is 18.87%.
Hershey Company (HSY) Insider Activity
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Confectioners Industry. The insider ownership of Hershey Company is 27.22%, while institutional ownership is 62.12%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 18 ’24, was worth 170,950. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 04 ’24, when Company’s VP, Chief Accounting Officer sold 278 for $179.28, making the entire transaction worth $49,840. This insider now owns 2,960 shares in total.
Hershey Company (HSY) Earnings and Forecasts
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 9/30/2024, the organization reported 2.02 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 1.96) by 0.06. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 2.52 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -5.34% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will plunge by -4.70% during the next five years compared to 10.17% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Hershey Company’s (HSY) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.54. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.20. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 21.20.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 8.68, a number that is poised to hit 2.38 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.24 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Hershey Company (HSY)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Hershey Company, HSY], we can find that recorded value of 1.51 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 1.7 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 38.25%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.76.
During the past 100 days, Hershey Company’s (HSY) raw stochastic average was set at 13.64%, which indicates a significant decrease from 30.65% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 30.84% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 19.11% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $183.49, while its 200-day Moving Average is $191.20. Now, the first resistance to watch is $175.14. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $176.98. The third major resistance level sits at $178.41. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $171.87, it is likely to go to the next support level at $170.44. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $168.60.
Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 35.07 billion has total of 202,355K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 11,165 M in contrast with the sum of 1,862 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 2,987 M and last quarter income was 446,300 K.
