Hershey Co. (HSY): Price and Financial Metrics

HSY POWR Grades

• HSY scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 89.5% of US stocks.
• HSY's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• HSY ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 20th percentile.

HSY Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $44,073,635,513, Hershey Co has a greater market value than 93.79% of US stocks.
• HSY's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 180.92 -- higher than 86.33% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• HSY's went public 36.27 years ago, making it older than 92.84% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Hershey Co are LULU, GIS, TT, PAYX, and ECL.
• HSY's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Hershey Co's official web site, go to www.thehersheycompany.com.

HSY Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, HSY's price/sales ratio is 200% higher, now standing at 4.2.
• HSY's price/earnings ratio has moved up 0.2 over the prior 243 months.
• HSY's price/sales ratio has moved up 2.1 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HSY.

HSY Growth Metrics

Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 47.04%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 7.67%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 3.42%.

Over the past 70 months, HSY's revenue has gone up $1,693,699,000.

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
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
2021-03-31	8,408.35	2,063.204	1,403.37
2020-12-31	8,149.719	1,699.657	1,278.708
2020-09-30	8,032.6	1,865.752	1,194.508

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.