Hershey Co. (HSY): Price and Financial Metrics

HSY POWR Grades

• HSY scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 96.08% of US stocks.
• HSY's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 157 days.
• HSY ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 27th percentile.

HSY Stock Summary

• HSY has a higher market value than 93.16% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $41,103,923,848.
• Hershey Co's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.74% of US equities in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, HSY is more volatile than merely 7% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Hershey Co, a group of peers worth examining would be ROK, TT, LULU, GIS, and PAYX.
• 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 net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 124.17%.
• Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 127.23%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 29.85%.

Over the past 15 months, HSY's revenue has gone up $883,260,000.

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
2021-09-30	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
2020-06-30	7,947.193	1,698.592	1,072.532

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.