Chart of the Day - Hershey Foods (HSY)

The "Chart of the Day" is Hershey Foods (HSY), which showed up on Tuesday's Barchart "All-Time High" list. Hershey on Tuesday posted an all-time high at $73.07 and closed up +0.61%. TrendSpotter has been long Hershey since July 30 at $72.17. In recent news on the stock, Hershey's Board of Directors on Aug 7 announced quarterly dividends of $0.38 on the Common Stock and $0.344 on the Class B Common Stock. The dividends are payable September 14, 2012, to stockholders of record August 24, 2012. It is the 331st consecutive regular dividend on the Common Stock and the 112th consecutive regular dividend on the Class B Common Stock. On July 31, Argus lifted its price target on Hershey to $82 a share from $78 and said it expects the company's growth prospects to improve based on several positive catalysts and it maintained its Buy rating on the stock. Hershey, with a market cap of $16.2 billion, is a leading snack food company and the largest North American manufacturer of quality chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products. Hershey markets such well-known brands as Hershey's, Reese's, Hershey's Kisses, Kit Kat, Almond Joy, Mounds, York, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, and Ice Breakers as well as innovative new products such as Swoops and Hershey's S'mores.