HSY Stock Ownership Breakdown

A company's 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides investors with comprehensive information about institutional ownership in a listed company, a sign of strength in terms of how many institutions have confidence in that company. The number of institutional investors who currently own HSY shares is 1795, representing 87.87% of the company's common stock.

FMR LLC, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in HSY by -28.73% restricting it's holding to 1.02 million shares of worth nearly $197.93M. QUBE RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGIES LTD also lessened -36.2% of the HSY shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 957.54 thousand shares of worth $186.24M. UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS INC also shunned HSY shares holding by -1.84% last quarter which brought its holding to 957.98 thousand shares worth $186.33M.

As per its latest 13F filing, PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC increased its stake in HSY by 98.41% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 419.95 thousand shares having worth more than $81.68M. STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP also added 15.18% more shares of HSY to its portfolio, raising its holding to 861.79 thousand shares of worth $167.63M. DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP also increased its HSY shares holding by 4.29% which brought its holding to 761.6 thousand shares worth $148.13M.

The insider with the most stakes in HSY is HERSHEY TRUST CO TRUSTEE IN TRUST FOR MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL , 10 percent owner at the company. Additionally, HSY stock is highly held by Chairman, President and CEO Buck Michele and SVP, Chief Financial Officer Voskuil Steven E among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 0.25% percent of The Hershey Company's stock. Within the last six months, there have been 13 transaction(s) in which HSY insiders have sold stock, totaling 27.33K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include MCCALMAN JENNIFER, VOSKUIL STEVEN E, and BUCK MICHELE.

There have been 0 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which The Hershey Company insiders have bought stock, totalling 0 shares

Around 830.94K The Hershey Company shares are held by insiders, which represents about 0.25% of HSY stock.

HSY 10 percent owner, HERSHEY TRUST CO TRUSTEE IN TRUST FOR MILTON HERSHEY SCHOOL holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. HSY shares owned by HERSHEY total nearly 2.07 million.

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC is the largest institutional owner in HSY which holds 419.95 thousand shares worth $81.68M or 0.21% of the total HSY shares outstanding followed by FMR LLC with ownership of 1.02 million shares representing 0.5% of the HSY ownership. QUBE RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGIES LTD is the third largest stakeholder with 957.54 thousand shares or 0.47% of the ownership worth more than $186.24M.

Stock options give the owner the ability but not the obligation to buy or sell a security at a predetermined price and date. Stock options can be classified into two types: puts and calls. A put is a bet on falling stock, and a call is a bet on rising stock. As far as the HSY is concerned, it is a stock which is optionable.

Number of HSY shares short is 6.95M. Shares short is a market sentiment in which investors have sold their shares short in a given stock but have not yet covered them or closed them out.

As of today, 147.74M shares of HSY are outstanding.

Float represents the number of tradeable shares in a specific stock. By subtracting restricted and closely-held shares from a firm's total outstanding shares, we can calculate its floating stock. The term "closely-held shares" refers to shares held by employees, major shareholders, and company insiders. At present, HSY has 145.01M shares in float.

Short ratio is calculated by dividing the number of short shares, short interest or bets that shareholders will sell short from the average daily volume. A higher ratio indicates longer times needed to repurchase borrowed shares (sold). The short ratio for HSY is 2.31.