Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) started the day on Wednesday, with a price increase of 1.19% at $184.8, before settling in for the price of $182.62 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, HSY posted a 52-week range of $140.13-$199.00.
It was noted that the giant of the Consumer Defensive sector posted annual sales growth of 14.88% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 14.88%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -36.09%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $148.16 million, simultaneously with a float of $145.40 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $37.47 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $180.99, while the 200-day Moving Average is $175.93.
Hershey Company (HSY) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Confectioners Industry. Hershey Company’s current insider ownership accounts for 28.30%, in contrast to 63.52% institutional ownership. Preceding that transaction, on Dec 18 ’25, Company’s SVP, Chief Financial Officer sold 1,500 for 188.51, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 282,765. This particular insider is now the holder of 53,819 in total.
Hershey Company (HSY) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.82 per share during the current fiscal year.
Hershey Company’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -36.09% and is forecasted to reach 6.89 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will decrease by -5.56% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 14.88% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Hershey Company (HSY). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.83. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $27.64, and its Beta score is 0.17. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 3.26. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 20.35.
In the same vein, HSY’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 6.68, a figure that is expected to reach 1.39 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 6.89 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Hershey Company (HSY)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY), its last 5-days Average volume was 1.63 million that shows plunge from its year to date volume of 1.75 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 47.45% While, its Average True Range was 50.48.
Raw Stochastic average of Hershey Company (HSY) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 65.48%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 59.24% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 3.51 that was lower than 3.99 volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
