Benzinga’s weekly Stock Wars matches up two leaders in a major industry sector with the goal of determining which company is the better investment.
This week, the duel is between a pair of leading chocolate providers: Hershey Co. and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc..
The Case for Hershey
This company traces its heritage back to Milton Hershey, who was apprenticed to a confectioner in 1871 when he was 14 years old. After five years, the 19-year-old Hershey—whose formal education never went beyond the fourth grade—opened his own confectionary business in Philadelphia.
