Shares of Hershey Co. HSY, +1.78% advanced 1.78% to $236.69 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.00% remaining mostly unchanged at 33,597.92 and the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.19% falling 0.19% to 3,933.92. The stock’s rise snapped a two-day losing streak. Hershey Co. closed $4.76 below its 52-week high ($241.45), which the company achieved on October 31st.
Trading volume (1.0 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 991,981.