E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company (DD): Today's Featured Chemicals Winner

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (DD) pushed the Chemicals industry higher today making it today's featured chemicals winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.8%. By the end of trading, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company rose 54 cents (1.1%) to $47.51 on average volume. Throughout the day, 4.7 million shares of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of six million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $46.87-$47.69 after having opened the day at $46.93 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $46.97. Other companies within the Chemicals industry that increased today were: American Vanguard Corporation (AVD), up 8.7%, Penford Corporation (PENX), up 6.4%, Chemtura Corporation (CHMT), up 6.3%, and Rentech (RTK), up 4.8%.

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E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company operates as a science and technology based company worldwide. Its Agriculture segment provides corn hybrid, soybean, canola, sunflower, sorghum, inoculants, wheat, and rice seed products under the Pioneer brand; and herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company has a market cap of $43.38 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.8, equal to the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 4.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are seven analysts that rate E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company a buy, two analysts rate it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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