Hershey Company(HSY), at 29 times earnings, discounts a hell of a lot of chocolate sales in the emerging markets.

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Among the fundamental datapoints dividend investors should investigate to decide if they are bullish on HSY is its dividend history.

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Hershey (HSY) reports its third quarter earnings on Thursday, October 25, 2012.

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As of this week, we have reaffirmed our Fairly Valued or neutral rating on HSY shares, but according to our methodology the stock is starting to look overbought.

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Among major companies, only Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) and Hershey Foods (nyse: HSY - news - people ) faced lengthy stoppages last year.

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For example, over the past ten years HSY has historically traded for 18.7x and 25.8x times cash earnings, but at the current price level it is near the high end of that range at 22.7x.

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Among the largest underlying components of PBJ, in trading today Hershey Company ( NYSE: HSY) is off about 0.4%, Kellogg Co ( NYSE: K) is off about 0.1%, and General Mills, Inc. ( NYSE: GIS) is up by about 0.1%.

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In all, more than than 200 companies have official licensing agreements with Elvis Presley Enterprises, including greeting card maker American Greetings (nyse: AM - news - people ) and candy giant Hershey (nyse: HSY - news - people ).

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Elsewhere on the earnings front, Aetna (AET), AOL (AOL), Hershey Foods ( HSY), Allstate (ALL), BMC Software (BMC), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Electronic Arts ( ERTS), Green Mountain Coffee ( GMCR), Las Vegas Sands ( LVS), and Qualcomm ( QCOM) are scheduled to release their quarterly reports.

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