Forensic Analysis · Materials / Mining & Chemicals · as of Aug 11, 2026

Dupont De Nemours, Inc. (DD)

A forensic read on Dupont De Nemours, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Distress

Financial health

0.1

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

313.4

P / E (ttm)

-5.6%

ROE

$19.2B

Market cap

1.67%

Dividend yield

1.9%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Dupont De Nemours, Inc. earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 0.1, placing it in the Distress zone. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

1.8%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 1.8% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 4% — well below its ~8% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

263% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $597M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 263% of free cash flow. More than free cash flow generated — and beyond operating cash too, so the extra is coming from debt or cash reserves, which isn't sustainable indefinitely. Counting the $38M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 280%.

$2.8B

FY2019–FY2023

Goodwill impairments. Took $2.8B of goodwill writedowns across 3 years (FY2019 ($242M), FY2020 ($1.9B), FY2023 ($668M)) — about 27% of net income over the span. A large writedown means an acquisition turned out worth far less than was paid — a real mark against M&A discipline.

-52%

FY2018→FY2019

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~52% in FY2019 (from FY2018) and hasn't been restored since. It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$6.85B

Revenue Growth YoY+1.9%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-19.3%

Net Margin-11.4%

Free Cash Flow$227.0M

Return on Equity-5.6%

Debt / Equity0.23x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.