Hershey Company (NYSE:HSY) price on current trading day, fall -0.51% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $166.34.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $167.19, moving within a range at $161.0 and $167.2. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.269 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 15.27. Turning to its 52-week performance, $211.92 and $140.13 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HSY moved -1.94% over the past month.
Hershey Company’s market cap currently stands at around $33.69 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-05. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 5.48, with its dividend yield at 3.29%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 2.5B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 2.36B and 2.66B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 20.32% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 11.42B, representing a 1.90% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that HSY is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Sell category.
18 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 8 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 10 recommend HSY as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
HSY’s current price about 0.71% and -1.89% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 50.22, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.05% and 3.20% in the 30-day chart. Further, Hershey Company (HSY) has a beta value of 0.31, and an average true range (ATR) of 4.70. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $174, forecast between a low of $168 and high of $180. Looking at the price targets, the low is -1.0% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -8.21%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -4.61% jump to $174 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Hershey Company (NYSE:HSY), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.25 over the past 10 days and 1.87 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 147.77 million shares.
The 27.31% of Hershey Company’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 61.04% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 7.8 million on 2025-04-15, giving us a short ratio of 4.79. The data shows that as of 2025-04-15 short interest in Hershey Company (HSY) stood at 618.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 8.33 million registered in 2025-03-14. Current price change has pushed the stock -1.78% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the HSY stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
