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EI DuPont de Nemours & Co.

(DD:NYSE)

LAST $34.76 USD
CHANGE TODAY +0.25 0.72%
VOLUME 5.0M
As of 4:01 PM 11/23/09 All times are local (Market data by Reuters is delayed by at least 15 minutes).

Snapshot of EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (DD)

OPEN
$34.79
PREVIOUS CLOSE
$34.51
DAY HIGH
$35.27
DAY LOW
$34.60
52 WEEK HIGH
11/18/09 - $35.35
52 WEEK LOW
03/9/09 - $16.05
MARKET CAP
31.4B
AVERAGE VOLUME 3 mo
6.3M
DILUTED EPS TTM
$0.74
SHARES OUTSTANDING
903.7M
EX-DATE
11/10/09
P/E TTM
47.0x
DIVIDEND
$1.64
DIVIDEND YIELD
4.72%
K = Thousands  M = Millions  B = Billions

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DD Details

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) operates as a science and technology company in various disciplines, including agriculture, industrial biotechnology, chemistry, biology, materials science, and manufacturing. 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, natural gas, soybeans, soy flake, soy lecithin, sulfonamides, corn, and soybean seeds. The Coatings & Color Technologies segment provides automotive finishes, industrial coatings, and titanium dioxide white pigments. The Electronic & Communication Technologies segment offers a range of materials for the electronics industry, flexographic printing and color communication systems, and various fluoropolymer and fluorochemical products. The Performance Materials segment provides thermoplastic, and thermoset engineering polymers and elastomers to fabricate components for mechanical and electrical systems, as well as specialized resins and films used in packaging and industrial applications, sealants and adhesives, sporting goods, and interlayers for laminated safety glass. The Safety & Protection segment offers specialty and industrial chemicals, nonwovens, aramids, and solid surfaces. The company also has interest in two antihypertensive drugs, the Cozaar and Hyzaar. It serves construction, transportation, communications, industrial chemicals, oil and gas, electric utilities, automotive, manufacturing, defense, homeland security and safety consulting, refrigeration, insulation, aerosol propellants, aerospace, automotive, electronics, chemical processing, and house ware industries. The company operates in the United States, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. DuPont was founded in 1802 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

60,000 Employees
Founded in 1802

DD Top Compensated Officers

Chief Executive Officer, President, Executive...
Age: 53
Total Annual Compensation: $703.7K
Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Vice P...
Age: 56
Total Annual Compensation: $638.6K
Executive Vice President
Age: 57
Total Annual Compensation: $594.9K
Consultant
Age: 61
Total Annual Compensation: $866.0K
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2008.

Key developments for EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (DD)

EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. Provides Earnings Guidance for the Full Year 2010; Reaffirms Earnings Outlook for the Full Year 2009

EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. provided earnings guidance for the full year 2010. It expects to grow earnings in 2010 despite anticipated declines in pharmaceutical royalties after patents expire in 2010 to a range of $2.10 to $2.40 per share. The company reaffirmed earnings outlook for the full year 2009. It expects earnings per share of $1.95 to $2.05, excluding significant items which are estimated to be $0.15 per share for full-year 2009 or $1.80 to $1.90 per share on a reported basis.

EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. Announces Management Changes, Effective December 31, 2009

EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. announced that its board of directors has elected Chief Executive Officer Ellen Kullman, 53, Chair effective Dec. 31. Charles O. Holliday, Jr., 61, Chair, will retire from the board after 11years as its chairman. As previously announced in September 2008, Kullman became CEO effective Jan. 1 after Holliday served as DuPont's CEO for 10 years. Holliday continued as Chair of DuPont and as a member of the board for a brief transition until Kullman's expected succession as Chair.

EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. Agrees to License Blends Patents to Makhteshim-Agan of North America, Inc

EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. and Makhteshim-Agan of North America Inc. announced that they have entered into a royalty-bearing license agreement for DuPont Crop Protection patents related to a novel homogeneous blend technology that enables the efficient combination of different pesticides. This agreement confirms the validity of certain DuPont patents granted in the United States and Canada and settles the litigation claims between MANA and DuPont regarding the U.S. patent.

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June 28, 2009
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May 31, 2009
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