The Hershey Company
NYSEHershey enters September with a curious disconnect: short sellers rebuilding positions sharply even as the stock drifts only modestly lower, with analysts and bulls broadly sidelined rather than alarmed. Short interest is the week's sharpest data point. It climbed 22% over the past seven days to 6.4% of free float — a meaningful jump for a blue-chip consumer staples name. The move…
HSY short interest surges 22% over one week to 6.4% of float, though cost to borrow remains negligible at 0.52%.
Hershey enters September with a curious disconnect: short sellers rebuilding positions sharply even as the stock drifts only modestly lower, with analysts and bulls broadly sidelined rather than alarmed. Short interest…
HSY fell nearly 5% on July 30 following its earnings release, and the Street is now recalibrating around a stock trading at $175 — well below where most analysts had their targets headed into the print. The earnings…
Snapshot as of 20 Sept 2026
HSY heads into its July 30 earnings release with the analyst community's target-cutting campaign intensifying and the stock's largest shareholder continuing to reduce its position. The analyst revision trend has grown…
HSY enters its July 30 earnings print with Wall Street steadily walking down estimates and the Milton Hershey School Trust quietly trimming its enormous stake — a combination that keeps the stock pinned near multi-year…
HSY ends the week with a notable shift in tone: the short-seller rebuild that defined most of May has gone into reverse, and a fresh analyst upgrade landed this morning just as the stock tests the $191 level. Short…
HSY heads into the back half of May with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions and a wall of analyst target cuts — yet the stock itself has barely moved. Short interest has climbed meaningfully in recent weeks. It…
Short sellers have been quietly accumulating pressure in HSY ahead of Tuesday's Q1 print, and the stock's 12% decline over the past month has done nothing to deter them. Short interest has jumped nearly 37% in a month,…
HSY enters its Q1 2026 earnings release — due pre-market Thursday, April 30 — with short sellers at their most aggressive since mid-March and a Street that has spent the past two weeks trimming price targets across the…
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