Hershey Stock To Go Ex-dividend Tomorrow (HSY)
NEW YORK (
) -- The ex-dividend date for
(NYSE:
) is tomorrow, February 22, 2012. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 38 cents per share. At a price of $60.75 as of 9:30 a.m. ET, the dividend yield is 2.5%.
The average volume for Hershey has been 1.1 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Hershey has a market cap of $10.1 billion and is part of the
sector and
industry. Shares are down 1.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday.
The Hershey Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing various chocolate and confectionery products, pantry items, and gum and mint refreshment products worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 22.2, below the average food & beverage industry P/E ratio of 22.7 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.
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TheStreet Ratings rates Hershey as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its growth in earnings per share, revenue growth, notable return on equity, solid stock price performance and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated. You can view the full
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