Hershey Company (HSY) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $152.34, with 4.12 million shares of worth about $628.19 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -23.60% during that period and on February 06, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 4.40%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 147.73M shares, out of which, 147.25M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 0.13% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -8.64%. Year-to-date (YTD), HSY shares are showing a performance of -10.04% which decreased to -22.43% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $140.13 but also hit the highest price of $211.92 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Hershey Company shares is 2.37 million. The stock is currently trading 0.16% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -8.03% for SMA50 and it goes to -17.57% lower than SMA200.
Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) currently have 147.73M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 61.39% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $30.83B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.34. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 17.55, while it has posted earnings per share of $8.68 in the same period. It has Quick Ratio of 0.54 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.34. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for HSY, volatility over the week remained 3.09% while standing at 2.62% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -23.27% while it is estimated to increase by 6.34% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of -4.45% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 10.17% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Piper Sandler on January 31, 2025 offering an Underweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $153 and $120 to it. Coverage by Deutsche Bank stated Hershey Company (HSY) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on January 23, 2025, suggesting a price target of $148 for the stock. On December 23, 2024, Mizuho Reiterated their recommendations, while on December 12, 2024, BofA Securities Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $180. Stock get an Underweight rating from Wells Fargo on December 12, 2024.
