DuPont de Nemours Inc. (DD-N)

This is in a tentative deal with Dow Chemical. DuPont was a bit of an MBA class analysis that was not run particularly well. Always a little bit of an underachiever. Nelson Peltz came, got some board seats and encouraged change. If they get together with Dow, we’ll see what comes out of it. He wouldn’t buy it at this point, simply because of the change that is going on, but he likes this scenario.

It is a chemical company that is involved in a merger with Dow Chemical. It is a merger of equals. It should get approval by end of year. EU approval will be early 2017. They will be splitting into three separate companies soon after the merger. He expects these companies to be attractive.

DuPont (DD-N) and Dow (DOW-N) merger? Generally, when you put 2 big businesses together, there is going to be plenty of opportunity to cut costs and there are going to be synergies. Ultimately it is going to be a pretty good deal for shareholders. You could own either.

Dupont and Dow are merging and then splitting into 3 companies. The proper value will get assigned to these companies and it will probably be more than before the split.

Just spun off their performance chemicals division and kept the more stable division of agriculture, etc. Performance has not done too well lately and there is no short term catalyst. A good company over the long-term and something you should consider owning, but not necessarily today.