DuPont de Nemours (DD) AI Stock Analysis

• Market Cap: $18.36B
• Dividend Yield: 1.74%
• Average Volume (3M): 4.69M
• Price to Earnings (P/E): ―
• Beta (1Y): 1.14
• Revenue Growth: 2.42%
• EPS Growth: -196.54%
• Country: US
• Employees: 24,000
• Sector: Basic Materials
• Sector Strength: 58
• Industry: Chemicals - Specialty
• EPS (TTM): 0.46
• Shares Outstanding: 408,923,860
• 10 Day Avg. Volume: 4,364,292
• 30 Day Avg. Volume: 4,691,325
• PEG Ratio: 0.10
• Price to Book (P/B): 1.21
• Price to Sales (P/S): 2.45
• P/FCF Ratio: 15.55
• Enterprise Value/Market Cap: 1.16
• Enterprise Value/Revenue: 1.92
• Enterprise Value/Gross Profit: 5.78
• Enterprise Value/Ebitda: 14.46
• 1Y Price Target: $55.18
• Price Target Upside: 22.90% Upside
• Rating Consensus: Strong Buy
• Number of Analyst Covering: 11
• EPS Forecast (FY): 2.3
• Revenue Forecast (FY): $7.11B

• Rating: 65 Neutral
• Price Target: $48.00 ▲(6.90% Upside)
• Action: Reiterated Date: 02/11/26
• Date: Action: Reiterated 02/11/26

DD’s score is held back most by weakened 2025 financial performance and sharply lower cash generation, despite a strengthening balance sheet. Offsetting this, price action is strong (uptrend across moving averages with positive momentum), and the latest earnings call provided supportive 2026 growth and margin-expansion guidance. Valuation is less supportive due to the negative P/E, with only modest help from the dividend yield.

Positive Factors

Strengthening Balance Sheet

Lower leverage and substantial equity improve financial flexibility, enabling funding for R&D, buybacks, M&A and cushioning cyclical downturns. A debt-to-equity near 0.23 reduces refinancing risk and supports durable capital deployment without materially stressing cash flows.

Innovation/Product Pipeline

A high new-product throughput that produced $2B of sales shows R&D converting to commercial wins. Consistent introductions and a ~30% vitality index help sustain higher-margin mix, customer qualification stickiness and recurring revenue, supporting margin durability over cycles.

2026 Guidance & Capital Actions

Management's targets for modest organic growth, margin expansion and high FCF conversion, coupled with a $2B repurchase program and executed ASR, indicate disciplined capital allocation and operational focus. This combination can sustainably restore earnings and return capital if execution holds.

Negative Factors

Weak 2025 Operating Results

A dramatic revenue decline and near-breakeven net margin in 2025 expose earnings volatility and operational vulnerability. Such a setback reduces return on invested capital, strains margins and could delay reinvestment or shareholder returns until demand and pricing normalize.

Compressed Cash Generation

Free cash flow plunged ~82% year-over-year, materially weakening internal funding capacity for capex, R&D and M&A. Even with guidance for improved conversion, recent cash volatility heightens execution and liquidity risk if working capital or end markets deteriorate again.

End‑market & Regional Headwinds

Structural softness in China water, residential shelter/building and parts of diversified industrials points to revenue concentration and slow recoveries. Prolonged weakness in these end markets could constrain sustainable top-line growth and limit the company's ability to fully realize margin targets.

DuPont de Nemours Business Overview & Revenue Model

Company Description

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 three segments: Electronics & Industrial, Mobility & Materials, and Water & Protection. The Electronics & Industrial segment supplies materials and printing systems to the advanced printing industry; and materials and solutions for the fabrication of semiconductors and integrated circuits addressing front-end and back-end of the manufacturing process. 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, electroless, and electrolytic metallization 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, as well as provides high performance parts, and specialty silicone elastomers, and lubricants. The Mobility & Materials segment provides engineering resins, silicone encapsulants, pastes, filaments, and advanced films to engineers and designers in the transportation, electronics, renewable energy, industrial, and consumer end-markets. 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 company was formerly known as DowDuPont Inc. and changed its name to DuPont de Nemours, Inc. in June 2019. DuPont de Nemours, Inc. is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

How the Company Makes Money

DuPont makes money primarily by selling specialty materials, components, and engineered solutions to industrial and commercial customers, generating revenue largely through product sales under long-term customer relationships and recurring demand tied to customers’ production cycles. Key revenue streams include: (1) Electronics & Industrial materials: sales of materials and formulations used in semiconductor fabrication, electronic packaging, printed circuit applications, and other industrial processes, where performance specifications, qualification requirements, and technical support can support premium pricing and repeat purchases; (2) Water & Protection: revenue from water filtration and separation offerings (such as membranes and filtration components) sold into municipal and industrial water treatment and industrial processing, plus sales of personal protection and safety products (including Tyvek and Kevlar-based offerings) used in construction, healthcare, manufacturing, and emergency response—these can have recurring replenishment demand and contract-based procurement; and (3) Other specialty materials and solutions: sales of engineered polymers, resins, and additives used in transportation, building and construction, and general industrial markets, where DuPont often competes on differentiated material properties and application know-how. In addition to direct product sales, DuPont’s earnings are influenced by mix (higher-margin specialty products), pricing actions versus raw-material and energy costs, volume cycles in end markets (notably semiconductors and industrial production), and the ability to commercialize new products that win customer qualifications. Information on specific revenue-sharing partnerships or material licensing arrangements is null.

DuPont de Nemours Financial Statement Overview

Summary

Overall fundamentals are mixed: the balance sheet is solid and de-levering (debt-to-equity down to ~0.23), but 2025 operating performance weakened sharply (revenue -45.2% YoY with net margin ~1.4%), and cash generation compressed materially (free cash flow down ~82% YoY).

Income Statement

Profitability has weakened meaningfully in the most recent year: 2025 revenue fell sharply (-45.2% YoY) and net margin compressed to ~1.4% versus ~5.7% in 2024. While 2023–2024 showed steadier operating performance (EBITDA margin ~17–22%), results are volatile over the cycle, including a large loss in 2020 and unusually high net margins in 2021–2022 that look non-recurring relative to later years. Overall, the earnings profile is currently pressured and less consistent than typical for a high-scoring specialty chemicals name.

Balance Sheet

Leverage looks manageable and improving: debt-to-equity declined from ~0.42 (2020–2021) to ~0.23 in 2025, supported by sizable equity ($13.9B in 2025). Total debt also stepped down materially versus 2021–2024. The key weakness is low recent returns—return on equity is modest in 2024 (~3.0%) and very low in 2025 (~0.7%), indicating the balance sheet is solid but current profitability is not earning a strong return on capital.

Cash Flow

Cash generation has deteriorated alongside earnings: operating cash flow fell to $0.56B in 2025 from $1.85B in 2024, and free cash flow dropped to $0.23B (down ~82% YoY). Free cash flow covers only ~41% of net income in 2025 (and ~69% in 2024), and there was also a negative free-cash-flow year in 2022. Positives include generally positive free cash flow in most years and very strong conversion in 2020–2021, but the recent downshift reduces confidence in near-term cash capacity.

Breakdown	Dec 2025	Dec 2024	Dec 2023	Dec 2022	Dec 2021
Income Statement
Total Revenue	6.85B	12.39B	12.07B	13.02B	12.57B
Gross Profit	2.07B	3.91B	3.63B	4.03B	4.03B
EBITDA	1.16B	2.75B	2.05B	3.08B	3.08B
Net Income	-779.00M	703.00M	423.00M	5.87B	6.47B
Balance Sheet
Total Assets	21.57B	36.64B	38.55B	41.35B	45.71B
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments	757.00M	1.85B	2.39B	4.96B	1.97B
Total Debt	3.19B	7.17B	7.80B	8.07B	11.21B
Total Liabilities	7.47B	12.84B	13.83B	14.34B	18.66B
Stockholders Equity	13.92B	23.35B	24.28B	26.57B	26.43B
Cash Flow
Free Cash Flow	1.08B	1.27B	1.57B	-155.00M	1.39B
Operating Cash Flow	1.41B	1.85B	2.19B	588.00M	2.28B
Investing Cash Flow	-687.00M	-849.00M	172.00M	8.92B	-2.40B
Financing Cash Flow	-1.87B	-1.85B	-2.99B	-7.67B	-6.51B

DuPont de Nemours Technical Analysis

• Technical Analysis Sentiment: Negative
• Last Price: 44.90
• 50DMA: Negative
• 100DMA: Positive
• 200DMA: Positive
• MACD: Positive
• RSI: Neutral
• STOCH: Neutral

Evaluating momentum and price trends is crucial in stock analysis to make informed investment decisions. For DD, the sentiment is Negative. The current price of 44.9 is below the 20-day moving average (MA) of 48.44, below the 50-day MA of 45.99, and above the 200-day MA of 36.35, indicating a neutral trend. The MACD of -0.37 indicates Positive momentum. The RSI at 38.06 is Neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. The STOCH value of 34.96 is Neutral, not indicating any strong overbought or oversold conditions. Overall, these indicators collectively point to a Negative sentiment for DD.

DuPont de Nemours Peers Comparison

Name	Overall Rating	Market Cap	P/E Ratio	ROE	Dividend Yield	Revenue Growth	EPS Growth
PPG	68 Neutral	$22.77B	14.71	33.60%	2.71%	-12.98%	-11.34%
DD	65 Neutral	$18.36B	-21.54	-3.77%	1.74%	2.42%	-196.54%
RPM	63 Neutral	$12.78B	21.09	22.70%	1.96%	3.09%	12.25%
Sector *	61 Neutral	$10.43B	7.12	-0.05%	2.87%	2.86%	-36.73%
LYB	59 Neutral	$23.29B	-18.77	-6.63%	12.78%	-19.65%	-157.13%
IFF	57 Neutral	$17.78B	-46.13	-2.49%	2.41%	-3.01%	82.30%
WLK	55 Neutral	$14.33B	-6.32	-15.50%	2.88%	-5.32%	-1108.29%

DuPont de Nemours Corporate Events

DuPont Appoints D.G. Macpherson to Board of Directors

On January 20, 2026, DuPont appointed D.G. Macpherson, chairman and chief executive of industrial distributor W.W. Grainger, to its board of directors as an independent director, with standard compensation for non-employee directors and no related-party transactions or selection arrangements disclosed. DuPont’s leadership highlighted Macpherson’s deep experience in operational excellence, supply chain optimization, and business transformation—built through senior roles at Grainger and earlier work at Boston Consulting Group—as a strategic addition expected to support the company’s growth strategy and long-term value creation for shareholders, customers, and employees.

The most recent analyst rating on (DD) stock is a Buy with a $50.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on DuPont de Nemours stock, see the DD Stock Forecast page.