NEW YORK, June 27, 2026, 16:03 EDT
- DuPont de Nemours Inc NYSE:DD closed Friday at $137.22, down 0.42%, and lost 5.08% over five days; volume ran at 243% of its 65-day average.
- The stock began split-adjusted trading this week after a 1-for-3 reverse split cut the share count to about 135 million.
- A public analyst-target page now mixes a post-split target with older pre-split targets, a small but real trap for valuation screens.
U.S. cash equities do not trade on Saturday. The next regular NYSE session is Monday, with core trading set for 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern. Next week is shorter than usual because U.S. markets are closed Friday, July 3, for Independence Day observed.
DuPont ended its first split-adjusted week down hard against materials. The Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLB) slipped 0.04% from Monday’s close to Friday’s close, while DD dropped 5.1% over the same span, based on listed historical prices.
The week’s cleaner story is not the reverse split itself. It is what the split did to the data investors use. DuPont said every three shares were combined into one share, with outstanding shares reduced from about 405.1 million to about 135.0 million. It also said the split did not change a holder’s proportional ownership, apart from fractional-share treatment.
That should mean old per-share numbers need to move by three. Benzinga’s DD analyst page showed Morgan Stanley NYSE:MS with a June 23 target raised from $52 to $156, exactly three times the old number. The same table still showed May targets of $60 and $59 from two other firms. The page’s average for the three most recent targets was $91.67, implying 33.2% downside from $137.22.
Read straight, that screen makes DuPont look expensive against the Street. Read split-adjusted, the older $60 and $59 targets would be $180 and $177 if mechanically adjusted. That is why the target feed matters more than usual for DD next week: stale per-share fields can flip a stock screen from upside to downside without any change in the business.
The stock’s own math is less messy. DuPont reaffirmed full-year 2026 adjusted EPS of $7.02 to $7.16 on a split-adjusted basis. Friday’s close prices the stock at about 19.4 times the midpoint of that adjusted EPS range.
The dividend also reset in plain sight. DuPont declared a $0.60 quarterly dividend payable Sept. 15 to holders of record on Aug. 31. Annualized, that is $2.40 a share, or about a 1.75% yield at Friday’s close, and about 34% of the midpoint of DuPont’s adjusted 2026 EPS guidance.
The company had already given investors the operating base for the new share count. In May, DuPont reported first-quarter net sales of $1.681 billion, adjusted EPS of $0.55 before the split adjustment, and operating EBITDA of $414 million. CEO Lori Koch said the company had “delivered a strong start to the year,” citing organic growth and margin expansion. DuPont Investors
Chief Financial Officer Antonella Franzen said at the same time that DuPont was raising full-year guidance after the first quarter and the Aramids transaction. The company later converted that EPS guide to the post-split $7.02 to $7.16 range.
DuPont has no upcoming investor event listed on its investor page. For the week ahead, the live issues are split-adjusted trading volume, whether DD holds Friday’s $131.14 intraday low, and how fast public target feeds clean up old pre-split numbers.
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