{"id":246,"date":"2013-10-22T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:21:43","slug":"update-on-one-of-our-dividend-and-growth-plus-strategy-holdings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Update on one of our Dividend and Growth Plus Strategy Holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/news-article\/7913882-dupont-delivers-3q-2013-operating-earnings-of-45-per-share\"><strong>DuPont beats by $0.04, misses on revenues.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;DuPont\u2019s (<a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DD<\/a>) Q3 EPS came in at $0.45 and beat consensus by $0.04, while revenue climbed 5% to $7.73B but missed expectations by $50M. \u201cThird-quarter sales volumes and operating earnings were stronger across most businesses compared to a soft quarter last year,\u201d said DuPont Chairperson and CEO Ellen Kullman. \u201cFourth-quarter operating earnings will be up substantially from last year. For the full year, we are on track to deliver modest earnings growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Comment:<\/strong>&nbsp;Earnings news is good for maintaining DuPont\u2019s current 3.03% yield. With a modest 13.8 P\/E ratio there should be positive momentum behind the stock price moving into the fourth quarter based on guidance for earnings to be up substantially in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DuPont beats by $0.04, misses on revenues.&nbsp;DuPont\u2019s (DD) Q3 EPS came in at $0.45 and beat consensus by $0.04, while revenue climbed 5% to $7.73B but missed expectations by $50M. \u201cThird-quarter sales volumes and operating earnings were stronger across most businesses compared to a soft quarter last year,\u201d said DuPont Chairperson and CEO Ellen Kullman. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dividends","category-investing","category-money-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/401advisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}