Hershey Trust Co Trustee in Trust for Milton Hershey School, a 10% owner of The Hershey Company ($HSY), sold 5,768 shares on August 11, 2026, at $181.7512 per share, for $1,048,340.92. The Form 4 described the transaction as an open-market sale and was filed on August 12, 2026, one day after the trade. After the sale, the trust reported holding 1,040,180 shares. $HSY, a food products company, closed at $181.98 on August 11, within an intraday range of $180.72 to $183.32, and had a listed market capitalization of about $36.77 billion.
The August 11 sale was one piece of a larger set of filings from the same entity. On August 11, the trust also sold 4,061 shares at $182.1707 each, for $739,795.21, and 171 shares at $180.9802 each, for $30,947.61. Those three August 11 transactions totaled 10,000 shares and $1,819,083.75. On August 12, the trust filed six additional sales totaling another 10,000 shares and $1,830,924.46, at prices between $179.9889 and $184.2036. On August 10, the trust's three filed sales also totaled 10,000 shares and $1,821,340.29. Across August 10 through August 12, the trust reported 30,000 shares sold for a combined $5,471,348.50.
The filings continue a longer series of sales by the trust. Form 4s dated July 28, July 29, July 30, and July 31 recorded additional 10%+ Owner sales. The largest single trade in that earlier stretch was 6,559 shares sold on July 31 at $175.3267 each, for $1,149,967.83. On July 30, the trust's six filed sales totaled 10,000 shares and $1,791,182.52, and on July 29, its five filed sales totaled 10,000 shares and $1,847,907.14. The July 31 filings totaled 10,000 shares and $1,753,487.06. Across the July 28–31 filings, per-share prices ranged from $174.7271 to $187.4625.
$HSY has also shown up in congressional STOCK Act disclosures. Representative Dan Newhouse reported a July 10, 2026 sale with a midpoint value of $1,001, disclosed on July 17, seven days later. Representative Ro Khanna reported a May 15, 2026 sale and a February 24, 2026 purchase, each with a $1,001 midpoint. Representative Scott Scott Franklin reported two February 10, 2026 $HSY sales, with midpoint values of $50,001 and $1,001, disclosed on February 23, 2026. Congressional dollar figures are midpoint estimates of the bracketed ranges disclosed on the forms.
The 5,768-share sale on August 11 was the largest dollar-value $HSY insider transaction among the trust's August 10–12 filings.