HERSHEY CO
At today's price, HERSHEY CO (HSY) is priced for +7.3% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Hershey owns the leading position in U.S. confectionery (Reese's, Hershey's, Kit Kat) plus a growing salty-snacks business (SkinnyPop, Dot's), and the company tracks its share across channels covering roughly 90% of its U.S. confectionery and salty-snack retail sales [Source: company FY2025 10-K]. • The biggest risk is cocoa: unprecedented cocoa inflation compressed the operating margin to about 14% from its usual low-twenties, and the price already credits a recovery that depends on cocoa mod
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1,433 institutional managers reported holding HSY in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 80% of the company; the top 10 hold 53%. 173 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 8.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (4.2 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting). Cash returned over the past three years: $2.93B in dividends and $595.62M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at HSY over the trailing three years: 2025: 3 buys totaling $445k. 30 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
HSY's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -2.0% | -15.1% |
| 2023-10-27 | -5.3% | +1.3% |
| 2024-02-21 | +0.6% | -2.3% |
| 2024-05-04 | +1.0% | -7.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
HSY's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-09 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-05-28 (items 5.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-08 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-14 (items 5.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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