Hershey now expects 2025 earnings to deteriorate, reflecting higher sourcing prices for cocoa. Learn why HSY stock is a Hold.

Hershey is expecting “significant pressure on earnings” in 2025 from stubbornly high cocoa costs but still ... said private-label players in confectionery have also been “aggressive ...

And even in the face of unrelenting cost pressures (particularly for sugar and cocoa ... digit share for private label (according to Euromonitor). Further, Hershey has continued to build on ...