Hershey Co Dividends
The next dividend date for Hershey Co has not yet been scheduled.
What is a Dividend Date
When we talk about a dividend date, we’re referring specifically to the ex-dividend date.
This is the date on which all stockholders will earn a dividend. Technically, a person needs to be the owner of a share of stock as of the night before the ex-dividend date in order to earn the dividend.
The ex-dividend date is different than the date when the dividend is issued. Although you earn a dividend on the ex-dividend date, that dividend is typically not disbursed to your account until several weeks later.
Most brokerages will automatically credit the dividend to your account once it’s issued.
Historical Dividends for Hershey Co (HSY)
| 08/14/2026 | 07/29/2026 | 08/14/2026 | 09/15/2026 | $1.45 |
| 05/15/2026 | 04/29/2026 | 05/15/2026 | 06/15/2026 | $1.45 |
| 02/17/2026 | 02/04/2026 | 02/17/2026 | 03/16/2026 | $1.45 |
| 11/17/2025 | 10/29/2025 | 11/17/2025 | 12/15/2025 | $1.37 |
| 08/15/2025 | 07/29/2025 | 08/15/2025 | 09/15/2025 | $1.37 |
| 05/16/2025 | 05/01/2025 | 05/16/2025 | 06/16/2025 | $1.37 |
| 02/14/2025 | 02/05/2025 | 02/17/2025 | 03/14/2025 | $1.37 |
| 11/18/2024 | 11/07/2024 | 11/18/2024 | 12/16/2024 | $1.37 |
| 08/16/2024 | 07/31/2024 | 08/16/2024 | 09/16/2024 | $1.37 |
| 05/16/2024 | 05/02/2024 | 05/17/2024 | 06/14/2024 | $1.37 |
More About Hershey Co
The Hershey Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products and pantry items in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: North America Confectionery, North America Salty Snacks, and International. The company offers chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products; gum and mint refreshment products, including mints, chewing gums, and bubble gums; protein bars; pantry items, such as baking ingredients, toppings, beverages, and sundae syrups; and snack items comprising spreads, bars, snack bites, mixes, popcorn, and pretzels. It provides its products primarily under the Hershey's, Reese's, Kisses, Jolly Rancher, Almond Joy, Brookside, barkTHINS, Cadbury, Good & Plenty, Heath, Kit Kat, Payday, Rolo, Twizzlers, Sour Strips, Whoppers, York, Ice Breakers, Breath Savers, Bubble Yum, Lily's, SkinnyPop, Pirates Booty, Dot's Homestyle Pretzels, and ONE Bar brands, as well as under the Pelon Pelo Rico, IO-IO, and Sofit brands. The company markets and sells its products to wholesale distributors, chain grocery stores, mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, vending companies, wholesale clubs, convenience stores, dollar stores, concessionaires, and department stores. It exports its products in approximately 65 countries worldwide. The Hershey Company was founded in 1894 and is based in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Owning Hershey Co Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Hershey Co stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Hershey Co stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Hershey Co stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Hershey Co stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Hershey Co dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Hershey Co Options on the Dividend Date
Unlike the stock price, which will normally have an abrupt decrease by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, option prices typically do not reflect the same phenomenon.
The reason is that in the time leading up to the ex-dividend date, that projected drop in Hershey Co stock price from the dividend is already baked into Hershey Co option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Hershey Co ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Hershey Co ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Hershey Co call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Hershey Co put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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