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NYSEThe Hershey Company (HSY) in our theses
The Hershey Company appears in one of our theses. Below is why it entered the basket and how it has done since publication.
The Burst Cocoa Bubble: Cheap Beans Are Just Arriving at Chocolate Factories, While Shelf Price Hikes Are Here to Stay
The cocoa price crash feeds into chocolate makers' cost structures from H2 2026 due to hedging lag, turning sticky retail prices into an aggressive margin expansion.
Why this company: Purest operational leverage to raw material deflation: cocoa was responsible for slashing 2025 earnings guidance by over 30%. Sustained retail price increases combined with declining bean costs from H2 2026 turn this dynamic into gross margin expansion.
Where these numbers come from
The reference price is recorded on the thesis publication date and never changed afterwards. The current price is refreshed several times a day. Returns are in the listing currency and exclude dividends, so for dividend payers the real total return was somewhat higher.
This is not a recommendation to buy or sell. A company enters a basket as a beneficiary of the mechanism described in the thesis, and the full argument is on each thesis page.
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