Benzinga | Jul 23, 2020 06:45AM EDT

Hershey Q2 Adj. EPS $1.31 Beats $1.15 Estimate, Sales $1.71B Miss $1.74B Estimate

Hershey (NYSE:HSY) reported quarterly earnings of $1.31 per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $1.15 by 13.91 percent. This is unchanged from the same period last year. The company reported quarterly sales of $1.71 billion which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $1.74 billion by 1.90 percent. This is a 3.40 percent decrease over sales of $1.77 billion the same period last year.