HSY Stock Alert: What to Know About Hershey’s Halloween Candy Shortage Warning Hershey’s (NYSE: HSY ) stock rose almost 2.5% July 29 after it announced that it may come up short on Halloween candy. But that wasn’t why investors were snapping up the stock, which is up 19% in a year where the SP 500 is down 14%. Investors buy results, and Hershey’s has delivered them. For the quarter ending July 3 Hershey’s reported net income of $315.5 million, $1.53|share fully diluted, on revenue of $2.37 billion . The company also raised its quarterly dividend by 15% , to $1.036 per share. HSY Stock: Tasty Numbers The new dividend raises the stock’s yield to over 1.8%. The company’s market capitalization is about $48.5 billion and the price to earnings ratio is now over 29. Until this year returns on Hershey’s had matched those of the market. It has been exceeding market returns since January. It has delivered a nearly 30% return on investment each of the last two years, when dividends and stock gains are combined. But it’s the looming shortage that had reporters talking. The company blamed supply chain problems and capacity challenges.