Don't Buy Dow Before Checking Its Fundamentals!

By Blake Campbell • Friday, December 15 10:38 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Dow, a Chemicals company whose shares moved 0.1% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Dow has moved 8.9% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 22.5%
DOW has an average analyst rating of hold and is -0.8% away from its mean target price of $54.7 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.84
Dow has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 29.5 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $3.27 and its forward P/E ratio is 16.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.95 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Dow is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.19 and an average P/B of 4.06
DOW has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -58.8% and gross profit margins of 0.1%
The company has a free cash flow of $2.47 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Dow Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of various materials science solutions for packaging, infrastructure, mobility, and consumer applications in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, the Asia Pacific, and Latin America. It operates through Packaging & Specialty Plastics, Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure, and Performance Materials & Coatings segments. The Packaging & Specialty Plastics segment provides ethylene, and propylene and aromatics products; and polyethylene, polyolefin elastomers, ethylene vinyl acetate, and ethylene propylene diene monomer rubbers for mobility and transportation, consumer, wire and cable, and construction end-markets. The Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure segment offers purified ethylene and propylene oxides, ethylene and ethanol amines, propylene glycol and polyether polyols, aromatic isocyanates and polyurethane systems, coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers, and composites. This segment also provides caustic soda, and ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride monomers; and cellulose ethers, redispersible latex powders, and acrylic emulsions. The Performance Materials and Coatings segment provides architectural paints and coatings, and industrial coatings that are used in maintenance and protective industries, wood, metal packaging, traffic markings, thermal paper, and leather; and silicon metal, siloxanes, and intermediates used as key materials in manufacturing differentiated downstream silicone products. It also engages in property and casualty insurance, as well as reinsurance business. Dow Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Midland, Michigan.

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