Hershey Co. (HSY): Price and Financial Metrics

HSY POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where HSY ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 93.4% of US stocks.
• HSY's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 51 weeks.
• HSY ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 20th percentile.

HSY Stock Summary

• Hershey Co's market capitalization of $37,542,465,312 is ahead of 92.65% of US-listed equities.
• Hershey Co's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 88.88% of US listed stocks.
• Hershey Co's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.68% of US equities in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to HSY, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are ROK, ROST, TT, SWK, and PAYX.
• 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

• 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 3 year price growth rate is now at 31.5%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 46.76%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 124.17%.

Over the past 33 months, HSY's revenue has gone up $947,640,000.

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
2021-06-30	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
2020-03-31	8,007.081	1,680.006	1,116.471

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 B, ranking ahead of 93.4% of graded US stocks.
• HSY's asset turnover comes in at 0.957 -- ranking 23rd of 58 Food Products stocks.
• K, LNDC, and TSN are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with HSY.

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