Hershey Co. (HSY): Price and Financial Metrics

HSY POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where HSY ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.98% of US stocks.
• HSY's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• HSY's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 12.75% of US stocks).

HSY Stock Summary

• HSY has a market capitalization of $50,572,352,054 -- more than approximately 95.72% of US stocks.
• HSY's went public 37.26 years ago, making it older than 93.5% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, HSY is more volatile than just 0.53% 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 CTAS, KHC, TT, GIS, and RELX.
• 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

• HSY's price/sales ratio is 4.9; this is 145% higher than that of the median Consumer Defensive stock.
• HSY's price/earnings ratio has moved up 10.1 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HSY.

HSY Growth Metrics

Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 66.52%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 44.67%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 3.22%.

HSY's revenue has moved up $2,412,213,000 over the prior 34 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
2022-12-31	10,419.29	2,327.837	1,644.817
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

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.