Currently, there are 147.73M common shares owned by the public and among those 147.29M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 8.90% and -4.53% over the past three months. HSY shares are trading 3.87% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 2.43% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $168.16 and touched a high of $211.92 over the same period. HSY has an average intraday trading volume of 1.58 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 9.55%, 6.98%, and 1.59% respectively.
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Institutional ownership of Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) shares accounts for 62.06% of the company’s 147.73M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $39.23B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.37. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 22.31, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $8.68. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 6.69% over the week and 3.35% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -5.57%, and -10.03% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of -4.70% over the next five years, compared to 10.17% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the HSY, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Redburn Atlantic stated their Sell rating for the stock in a research note on October 22, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $165. UBS coverage for the Hershey Company (HSY) stock in a research note released on October 07, 2024 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $209. Bernstein was of a view on October 07, 2024 that the stock is Mkt Perform, while Jefferies gave the stock Underperform rating on September 26, 2024, issuing a price target of $184- $163. Citigroup on their part issued Sell rating on August 27, 2024.