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The Hershey Company

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HSY in the last 90 days

The Hershey Company (HSY) had 1 congress transaction by 1 member and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 9,178,157 shares held short, 6.8 days to cover, up 0.4% from the report before.

  • Congress: 0 purchases and 1 sale reported, amounts in the bands the law requires.
  • Delay: each filing below shows how many days passed between the trade and its publication. None of this is real-time.

Latest filing on file: 17 JUL 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the price is doing

$159$208 → $159 · -23% over six months

HSY is down 23%. Short sellers have barely moved.

Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are down 3% over the same stretch.

$208 STARTAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT10 JUL 2026 — Hon. Dan Newhouse — $1,001 – $15,000NOW $159

Politician activityBoughtSold

Short sellers

11 reports · twice a month

APR 0%peak +11%15 SEPT -3%APRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT

Money betting HSY falls. Reported twice a month, and it shows up seven working days late.

Politicians

0 buys · 1 sales

Traded over six months

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Short sellers

Bets down 3%

Over six months · newest 15 SEPT 2026

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Insiders

Nothing reported

Traded over six months

Quiet Money

Our take on how well HSY holds up when sellers show up.

How it holds up · last 60 trading days

Through 21 SEPT 2026

Mixed

When HSY gets hit lately, it goes both ways.

Lately, HSY holds firm some days and gives way on others.

That's been true for the last 5 trading days.

The last 6 months

ResilientMixedVulnerable
MAYJUNJULAUGSEPT
31 MAR 2026Now · 21 SEPT 2026

What the filings show

What the filings show · last 90 days

2 of 4 sources

-35Tilted out

Leaning outBalancedLeaning in

The disclosed money is leaning away from this name, on what has actually been filed. This reads on two of the four sources we track.

Short interest
Short interest rose 1.3% — 9,063,797 to 9,178,157 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
-3
Congress
1 member of Congress disclosed 0 purchases and 1 sale. See the filings →
-100

This summarises filings that have already been published — it is not a forecast, a rating of the company, or advice. Every figure above is listed in full further down this page, with the document it came from.

FINRA short interest

Settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · shares held short

9,178,157shares held short

Days to cover

6.78

Avg daily volume

1,353,928

Since last report

+0.42%

As of 15 September 2026, 9,178,157 The Hershey Company shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 38,635 shares more than the previous report, a 0.42% increase. At the average daily volume of 1,353,928 shares, that position represents 6.78 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.

This is the most recent figure that exists, and it is 17 days old. FINRA collects short interest twice a month, on a settlement date, and publishes it about eight business days later. So nobody has a live short-interest number for HSY — not us, and not anyone quoting one. We print the settlement date on the figure so you always know which day you are looking at.

Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has risen from 8,664,199 shares on 31 March 2026 to 9,178,157 today, a change of 5.9%. The highest reading in that window was 10,480,814 shares on 15 May 2026.

SettlementShares shortDays to cover
15 SEPT 20269,178,1576.78
31 AUG 20269,139,5228.59
14 AUG 202610,330,3368.05
31 JUL 20268,307,6014.65
15 JUL 20269,063,7974.30
30 JUN 20269,916,0723.65
15 JUN 20268,233,4184.23
29 MAY 20268,461,4844.53
15 MAY 202610,480,8145.32
30 APR 20268,918,8324.30
15 APR 20269,427,8024.98
31 MAR 20268,664,1994.29
What is HSY's short interest?
9,178,157 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.
What percentage of the float is short?
We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.
How current is this?
It is 17 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.
What does days to cover mean?
It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 6.78. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.
Where does this come from?
FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.

Disclosed insider buying on file

—no purchase on file passed the price check

Open-market purchases only — the amount is a fact, not a verdict.

On file here

Short positions0

Insider purchases0

Congress transactions15

Latest change17 JUL 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 0CONGRESS · 15

Congress transactions on file

15 disclosed · newest first · every row links to its filing

WhoAmount as filedTradedFiledLag
Hon. Dan NewhouseSOLD$1,001 – $15,00010 JUL 202617 JUL 20267 days
Hon. Scott Scott FranklinSOLD$1,001 – $15,00010 FEB 202623 FEB 202613 days
Hon. Scott Scott FranklinSOLD$1,001 – $15,00010 FEB 202623 FEB 202613 days
Hon. Scott Scott FranklinSOLD$50,001 – $100,00010 FEB 202623 FEB 202613 days
Hon. Scott Scott FranklinBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00007 AUG 202403 JUL 2025330 days — the law says 45
Hon. Rob BresnahanBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00015 MAY 202531 MAY 202516 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00014 MAY 202519 MAY 20255 days
Hon. Dan NewhouseSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial11 APR 202516 MAY 202535 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00001 APR 202514 MAY 202543 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00005 MAY 202506 MAY 20251 day
Hon. Rob BresnahanSOLD$1,001 – $15,00008 APR 202528 APR 202520 days
Hon. Carol Devine MillerBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00010 MAR 202511 APR 202532 days
Hon. Rob BresnahanBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00025 FEB 202527 MAR 202530 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00015 JAN 202512 FEB 202528 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00008 JAN 202527 JAN 202519 days
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