E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) operates as a science and technology company in various disciplines, including biotechnology, electronics, materials science, safety and security, and synthetic fibers. It operates in five segments: Agriculture & Nutrition, Coatings & Color Technologies, Electronic & Communication Technologies, Performance Materials, and Safety & Protection. The Agriculture & Nutrition segment offers benzene and carbamic acid related intermediates, copper, insect control products, soybeans, soy flake, soy lecithin, and sulfonamides. The Coatings & Color Technol
DuPont is a diversified set of businesses . Of course, there's the chemicals business, but it's best to look at DD as a sort of technology firm. Their products are used in the agriculture, nutrition, energy, construction, safety, and apparel industries just to name a few. They are now stepping up their presence in the solar power space. This stock is cheaper than the market on an earnings and price to cash flow basis: it is growing profits at a healthy clip. It has a good dividend yield. The debt/equity is ratio is quite high though it is inline with the industry.
I intitially started looking into DD as a potential money-worker with the Cinderella agriculture story. So I decided to look at the 10Q ahead of the 10K to be filed this Feb so I can see just how much of Pioneer (the DD subsidiary that rakes in profits on behalf of the ag play) helps drive up DD's bottomline.
Well, it does contribute, but not at levels to really see a P/E above 13. In October, DD's ag nutrition actually drove down profit bottomline -10%, while positive profits came in from all other business lines in safety protection, pharma, color coatins, performance materials,
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