Hershey Co. (HSY): Price and Financial Metrics

HSY POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where HSY ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.04% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for HSY is in Quality, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• HSY's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 13.82% of US stocks).

HSY Stock Summary

• HERSHEY CO's market capitalization of $47,708,359,655 is ahead of 95.35% of US-listed equities.
• HSY's went public 36.94 years ago, making it older than 93.49% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• The volatility of HERSHEY CO's share price is greater than that of just 0.95% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to HERSHEY CO are PAYX, TT, LULU, CTAS, and ROST.
• Visit HSY's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.thehersheycompany.com.

HSY Valuation Summary

• HSY's price/sales ratio is 4.7; this is 370% higher than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• Over the past 243 months, HSY's price/earnings ratio has gone down 7.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HSY.

HSY Growth Metrics

Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 42.72%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -27.45%.
• The year over year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -70.14%.

HSY's revenue has moved up $2,652,903,000 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows HSY's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	10,093.08	2,239.361	1,584.077
2022-06-30	9,724.77	2,179.005	1,629.517
2022-03-31	9,341.61	2,129.711	1,615.191
2021-12-31	8,971.337	2,082.884	1,477.512
2021-09-30	8,830.453	2,008.108	1,433.343
2021-06-30	8,690.443	2,103.262	1,435.699

HSY's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• HSY has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 95.39% of graded US stocks.
• HSY's asset turnover comes in at 0.968 -- ranking 24th of 59 Food Products stocks.
• K, LNDC, and LANC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with HSY.

The table below shows HSY's key quality metrics over time.