Published on 3 May 2024 on Simply Wall St. via Yahoo Finance
Hershey's (NYSE:HSY) five-year earnings growth trails the respectable shareholder returns
When you buy and hold a stock for the long term, you definitely want it to provide a positive return. Better yet, you'd like to see the share price move up more than the market average. Unfortunately for shareholders, while the The Hershey Company (NYSE:HSY) share price is up 56% in the last five years, that's less than the market return. Unfortunately the share price is down 29% in the last year.
Since it's been a strong week for Hershey shareholders, let's have a look at trend of the longer term fundamentals.