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Hershey Makes More Profit, Raises Dividend By 7% - #Hershey $HSY

American chocolate maker The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) pays a quarterly dividend of $ 0.773 per share. This is an increase of 7 percent. Investors receive the 359th quarterly dividend in succession on September 16, 2019 (Record Date: August 23, 2019).

For the full year Hershey pours 3.092 US dollars. At the current share price of $ 149.72 (as of July 25, 2019), the current dividend yield is 2.07 percent.

The Hershey, Pennsylvania, US company was founded in 1894 by Milton S. Hershey. In the second quarter of the fiscal year 2019, sales amounted to 1.77 billion US dollars (previous year: 1.75 billion US dollars), as also reported on Thursday. The profit was $ 312.84 million (previous year: $ 226.85 million).

The stock has been on Wall Street since the beginning of 2019 with 39.69 percent plus and the current market capitalization is $ 40.3 billion (as of July 25, 2019).

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