$120,000 of HERSHEY COMPANY lobbying was just disclosed, from Q3 of 2025, in a new Lobbying Disclosure Act filing.
This included lobbying on issues like:
"Food labeling issues; Nutrition issues including sodium and ingredients Support for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and opposition to changes in benefits administration, including opposition to Healthy SNAP Act of 2025 (S.561/H.R.479) FY26 Ag-FDA Appropriations: SNAP Restrictions, Food Ingredients, Sodium Sugar reform: Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 (H.R. 8467), H.R.1 Cocoa supply chain and related trade matters; no bill number Tariffs, including exempting cocoa (no bill number) USMCA"
You can find more data on corporate lobbying on Quiver Quantitative.
HSY Congressional Stock Trading
Members of Congress have traded $HSY stock 3 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 3 have been purchases and 0 have been sales.
Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $HSY stock by members of Congress over the last 6 months:
- REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT BRESNAHAN purchased up to $15,000 on 05/15.
- REPRESENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE has traded it 2 times. They made 2 purchases worth up to $30,000 on 05/14, 05/05 and 0 sales.
To track congressional stock trading, check out Quiver Quantitative's congressional trading dashboard.
HSY Insider Trading Activity
HSY insiders have traded $HSY stock on the open market 17 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 0 have been purchases and 17 have been sales.
Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $HSY stock by insiders over the last 6 months:
- MICHELE BUCK (Chairman, President and CEO) has made 0 purchases and 6 sales selling 108,370 shares for an estimated $19,177,428.
- STEVEN E VOSKUIL (SVP, Chief Financial Officer) has made 0 purchases and 3 sales selling 8,000 shares for an estimated $1,451,475.
- ROBERT MALCOLM sold 5,488 shares for an estimated $907,267
- ROHIT GROVER (President, International) has made 0 purchases and 3 sales selling 4,000 shares for an estimated $693,340.
- JAMES TUROFF (SVP, GC & Secretary) has made 0 purchases and 3 sales selling 3,900 shares for an estimated $651,040.
- JENNIFER MCCALMAN (VP, Chief Accounting Officer) sold 974 shares for an estimated $153,025
To track insider transactions, check out Quiver Quantitative's insider trading dashboard.
HSY Hedge Fund Activity
We have seen 593 institutional investors add shares of HSY stock to their portfolio, and 584 decrease their positions in their most recent quarter.
Here are some of the largest recent moves:
- CAPITAL RESEARCH GLOBAL INVESTORS added 1,502,523 shares (+83473.5%) to their portfolio in Q2 2025, for an estimated $249,343,691
- NORGES BANK added 1,379,214 shares (+4157.6%) to their portfolio in Q2 2025, for an estimated $228,880,563
- CITADEL ADVISORS LLC added 1,121,565 shares (+16722.3%) to their portfolio in Q2 2025, for an estimated $186,123,711
- VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP added 1,029,598 shares (+3075.0%) to their portfolio in Q2 2025, for an estimated $170,861,788
- CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS removed 944,915 shares (-8.1%) from their portfolio in Q2 2025, for an estimated $156,808,644
- PACER ADVISORS, INC. removed 802,586 shares (-98.4%) from their portfolio in Q3 2025, for an estimated $150,123,711
- BALYASNY ASSET MANAGEMENT L.P. added 758,471 shares (+inf%) to their portfolio in Q2 2025, for an estimated $125,868,262
To track hedge funds' stock portfolios, check out Quiver Quantitative's institutional holdings dashboard.
HSY Analyst Ratings
Wall Street analysts have issued reports on $HSY in the last several months. We have seen 0 firms issue buy ratings on the stock, and 2 firms issue sell ratings.
Here are some recent analyst ratings:
- Wells Fargo issued a "Underweight" rating on 09/25/2025
- Piper Sandler issued a "Underweight" rating on 09/09/2025
To track analyst ratings and price targets for HSY, check out Quiver Quantitative's $HSY forecast page.
HSY Price Targets
Multiple analysts have issued price targets for $HSY recently. We have seen 11 analysts offer price targets for $HSY in the last 6 months, with a median target of $187.0.
Here are some recent targets:
- Peter Grom from UBS set a target price of $205.0 on 10/08/2025
- Chris Carey from Wells Fargo set a target price of $157.0 on 09/25/2025
- Leah Jordan from Goldman Sachs set a target price of $222.0 on 09/16/2025
- Michael Lavery from Piper Sandler set a target price of $167.0 on 09/09/2025
- Thomas Palmer from JP Morgan set a target price of $187.0 on 08/20/2025
- Brian Holland from DA Davidson set a target price of $188.0 on 08/04/2025
- Andrew Lazar from Barclays set a target price of $190.0 on 08/01/2025
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