HSY

Hershey Company (The)
Packaged Foods & Meats · Consumer Staples · as of 2026-08-19
Last close
$188.79
+2.9% on the session
1-year return
+9.0%
-13.6% over six months
Volatility
27.3%
annualized, trailing year
Max drawdown
-27.4%
worst peak to trough, 1y
What the numbers say

Hershey Company (The) is a packaged foods & meats name in the consumer staples sector. Over the past year it returned +9.0%, against -1.3% over three months and +11.5% over one. It sits 0.1% below its 200-day average, close enough that the trend is genuinely undecided. Annualized volatility of 27.3% is moderate by single-stock standards.

Its worst peak-to-trough decline over the year was -27.4%, and it has traded a median $341M a day — the figure that decides whether a position can actually be entered and exited at posted prices. Its daily moves correlate -0.06 with the S&P 500 proxy, so it has been moving substantially on its own.

Where it ranks
Within Consumer Staples#28 of 34
Stronger than 18% of its sector on the momentum profile
Across the whole index#381 of 500

How HSY scores on all four profiles

Its standing on steadiness, defensiveness and rebound — plus the factor-by-factor breakdown behind each score, and its closest and least-correlated peers among 7 others in Packaged Foods & Meats.

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Full metrics
1 day+2.9%
1 week+3.3%
1 month+11.5%
3 months-1.3%
6 months-13.6%
1 year+9.0%
12-1 momentum-2.2%
Volatility (1y, annualized)27.3%
Max drawdown (1y)-27.4%
Distance vs 200-day average-0.1%
Return per unit of risk0.33
Median daily dollar volume$341M
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