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Hershey Foods Corp (HSY)At 3:52PM ET: 48.26  Up 0.55 (1.15%)  Reuters
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VALUATION MEASURES 
Market Cap (intraday):12.43B
Enterprise Value (16-Aug-04)³:13.34B
Trailing P/E (ttm, intraday):23.01
Forward P/E (fye 31-Dec-05)¹:21.64
PEG Ratio (5 yr expected)¹:2.34
Price/Sales (ttm):2.87
Price/Book (mrq):9.40
Enterprise Value/Revenue (ttm)³:3.12
Enterprise Value/EBITDA (ttm)³:13.08
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends:31-Dec
Most Recent Quarter (mrq):30-Jun-04
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm):12.87%
Operating Margin (ttm):19.48%
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm):15.47%
Return on Equity (ttm):43.34%
Income Statement
Revenue (ttm):4.28B
Revenue Per Share (ttm):16.299
Revenue Growth (lfy)³:1.30%
Gross Profit (ttm)²:1.63B
EBITDA (ttm):1.02B
Net Income Avl to Common (ttm):550.27M
Diluted EPS (ttm):2.097
Earnings Growth (lfy)³:13.40%
Balance Sheet
Total Cash (mrq):19.48M
Total Cash Per Share (mrq):0.08
Total Debt (mrq)²:1.07B
Total Debt/Equity (mrq):0.814
Current Ratio (mrq):1.838
Book Value Per Share (mrq):5.077
Cash Flow Statement
From Operations (ttm)³:692.55M
Free Cashflow (ttm)³:450.17M
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TRADING INFORMATION 
Stock Price History
Beta:-0.216
52-Week Change:30.78%
52-Week Change (relative to S&P500):21.68%
52-Week High (30-Jul-04):48.44
52-Week Low (28-Aug-03):34.80
50-Day Moving Average:55.04
200-Day Moving Average:74.40
Share Statistics
Average Volume (3 month):732,318
Average Volume (10 day):640,000
Shares Outstanding:257.55M
Float:195.70M
% Held by Insiders:24.02%
% Held by Institutions:41.21%
Shares Short (as of 8-Jul-04):4.67M
Daily Volume (as of 8-Jul-04):N/A
Short Ratio (as of 8-Jul-04):7.907
Short % of Float (as of 8-Jul-04):2.39%
Shares Short (prior month):4.89M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend:0.88
Dividend Yield:1.84%
Dividend Date:15-Sep-04
Ex-Dividend Date:23-Aug-04
Last Split Factor (new per old)²:2:1
Last Split Date:16-Jun-04
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mrq = Most Recent Quarter (as of 30-Jun-04)
ttm = Trailing Twelve Months (as of 30-Jun-04)
lfy = Last Fiscal Year (as of 31-Dec-03)
fye = Fiscal Year Ending
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