The Hershey Company (HSY) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of The Hershey Company (HSY): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products and pantry items in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: North America Confectionery, North America Salty Snacks, and International. The company offers chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products; gum and mint refreshment products, including mints, chewing gums, and bubble gums; protein bars; pantry items, such as baking ingredients, toppings, beverages, and sundae syrups; and snack items comprising spreads, bars, snack bites, mixes, popcorn, and pretzels. It provides its products primarily under the Hershey's, Reese's, Kisses, Jolly Rancher, Almond Joy, Brookside, barkTHINS, Cadbury, Good & Plenty, Heath, Kit Kat, Payday, Rolo, Twizzlers, Sour Strips, Whoppers, York, Ice Breakers, Breath Savers, Bubble Yum, Lily's, SkinnyPop, Pirates Booty, Dot's Homestyle Pretzels, and ONE Bar brands, as well as under the Pelon Pelo Rico, IO-IO, and Sofit brands.
Sector: Consumer Defensive · Industry: Confectioners · United States · 17,550 employees · thehersheycompany.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, The Hershey Company (HSY) had a market capitalization of $34.79B, a trailing P/E of 23.7 (forward 17.5), a dividend yield of 3.32% and a beta of 0.10; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $161.43 – $239.48 (-7.7% over the year).
- Market cap
- $34.79B
- Enterprise value
- $40.31B
- Trailing P/E
- 23.7
- Forward P/E
- 17.5
- PEG ratio
- 0.88
- Price / book
- 7.62
- EPS (trailing)
- $7.32
- EPS (forward)
- $9.87
- Dividend yield
- 3.32%
- Payout ratio
- 77.1%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-08-14
- 52-week range
- $161.43 – $239.48
- 52-week change
- -7.7%
- Beta
- 0.10
- Average volume
- 1.8M
- Shares outstanding
- 146.3M
- Short % of float
- 8.28%
- Profit margin
- 12.2%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-08
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-08 scan of the US universe, The Hershey Company (HSY) last closed at $173.15 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 38 (neutral territory), price -5.1% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread +2.0%, MACD histogram -1.55.
Sentiment inputs: 80% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 62% bullish; analyst consensus score 60/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 7 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 1 buy and 2 sells of HSY; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 51 sells (5 distinct filers, latest disclosure 2026-08-05). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Hershey Trust Co Trustee In Trust For Milton Hershey School (0B/50S), Tommy Tuberville (0B/1S), Steven E. Voskuil (0B/1S), Alan Armstrong (1B/0S), Dan Newhouse (0B/1S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
HSY has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls The Hershey Company (HSY) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell HSY.
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