Dow Jones (DJIA) Today: E I Du Pont De Nemours & Company (DD) Lower

Holding back the Dow today is E I du Pont de Nemours & Company (NYSE:DD), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 45-cent decline (-0.6%) bringing the stock to $78.12.

By Naomi Hossain , Mar 10, 2015 1:00 PM EDT

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The

Dow Jones Industrial Average

(

^DJI

) is trading down 249.0 points (-1.4%) at 17,746 as of Tuesday, Mar 10, 2015, 12:36 p.m. ET. During this time, 165.5 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 372.5 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 807 issues advancing vs. 2,233 declining with 120 unchanged.

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Holding back the Dow today is

E I du Pont de Nemours & Company

(NYSE:

), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 45-cent decline (-0.6%) bringing the stock to $78.12. This single loss is lowering the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 3.41 points or roughly accounting for 1.4% of the Dow's overall loss. Volume for E I du Pont de Nemours & Company currently sits at three million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 3.9 million shares.

E I du Pont de Nemours & Company has a market cap of $70.75 billion and is part of the basic materials sector and chemicals industry. Shares are up 6.3% year-to-date as of Monday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.4%.

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company operates as a science and technology based company worldwide. The company's Agriculture segment offers corn hybrid, soybean, canola, sunflower, sorghum, inoculants, seed products, wheat, rice, herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides.

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 solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.