Essential Information for DuPont de Nemours (DD) Investors

By Susan Ramirez • Thursday, August 01 07:48 • Permanent Link

With gains of 4.1%, DuPont de Nemours was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $83.7 and have logged a 2.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

DuPont de Nemours has moved 8.5% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 22.7%
DD has an average analyst rating of buy and is -10.16% away from its mean target price of $93.17 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $0.78
DuPont de Nemours has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 107.3 while the S&P 500 average is 28.21
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $4.31 and its forward P/E ratio is 19.4
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.5 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.71
DuPont de Nemours is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 25.19 and an average P/B of 3.17
The company has a free cash flow of $2.49 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
DuPont de Nemours, Inc. provides technology-based materials and solutions in the United States, Canada, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It operates through Electronics & Industrial, Water & Protection, and Corporate & Other segments. The Electronics & Industrial segment supplies materials and solutions for the fabrication of semiconductors and integrated circuits. This segment also provides semiconductor and advanced packaging materials; dielectric and metallization solutions for chip packaging; and silicones for light emitting diode packaging and semiconductor applications; permanent and process chemistries for the fabrication of printed circuit boards to include laminates and substrates, and electroless and electrolytic metallization solutions, and electromagnetic shielding and thermal management solutions, as well as patterning solutions, and materials and metallization processes for metal finishing, decorative, and industrial applications. In addition, it offers various materials to manufacture rigid and flexible displays for organic light emitting diode, and other display applications; provides high performance parts, and specialty silicone elastomers, and lubricants to automotive, aerospace, electronics, industrial, and healthcare markets; and photopolymer plates and platemaking systems used in flexographic printing, and digital inks for textile, commercial, and home-office printing applications. The Water & Protection segment provides engineered products and integrated systems for worker safety, water purification and separation, transportation, energy, medical packaging and building materials. The Corporate & Other segment offers auto adhesives and fluids; Multibase; and Tedlar products. The company was formerly known as DowDuPont Inc. and changed its name to DuPont de Nemours, Inc. in June 2019. DuPont de Nemours, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

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