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E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

And you have stated that you had a career at DD in the past. I was happy with my career as a technician but the question should be why are you so bitter about yours. I am now happily retired while you just continue your bitter attacks against DD while misleading investors.

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

Profits up 11%. Why leave that out?


On Oct 20 04:58 PM funfun wrote:

> Talk about slapping lipstick on the proverbial pig!
>

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It is a good thing that size does not matter when it comes to making money on the stock market. Also look at GM and what happened to that ex #1.

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"Well into the next decade 2012"
That's only 2 years of earning in the area of this year. The economy will take at least that long to rebound to previous years. DD still has a much better 2 year outlook that 2 of it's main rivals DOW and Monsanto.


On Nov 01 12:00 PM funfun wrote:

> Additionally on DuPont's bleak prospects, DuPont Senior Management,
> specifically DuPont Executive Vice President Mark Vergnano, admitted
> to private investors less than a month ago, Oct. 6, 2009, that DuPont
> would not match its noticeably weak earnings of 2008, or diluted
> earnings per share of $2.20, until the earliest well into the next
> decade, 2012! This tells me the intervening years will show sick
> results.
>
> ...funfun..

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

They have been open about it. Some people just don't understand it or just ignore it and want to put the company down at every chance they get.


On Oct 20 04:58 PM funfun wrote:

> Talk about slapping lipstick on the proverbial pig!
>
> DuPont Executive Vice President, Jeffrey Keefer brags disingenuously,
> if not deceptively,
>
> "DuPont had a strong third quarter..."
>
> What in the world is he blabbering about?
>
> Revenues cratered, down 20%!
> World-wide volumes were down 12%!
> Earnings per share were flat, if the nickel in tax benefits is factored
> out.
>
> And Keefer goes on with his snake oil pitch,
>
> "After accounting for the tax benefit, stilll a very, very, solid
> quarter"
>
> Fellow investors, that is VERY, VERY misleading and distorting to
> frame one of the sickest, weakest DuPont quarters in memory in such
> a dishonest fashion! ...funfun..

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

What you fail to see or understand that many of these products are not products you buy off the self. Many of these products and chemicals are newly developed for another company or companies need to produce their own product. Someone like yourself who has been out of Dupont for @8 years or more would not see that. Many companies in different fields request Dupont to R&D ways to over come problems or improve their product thus in creating a new product to be sold to that company.


On Apr 23 07:55 PM funfun wrote:

> "Launched 500 new products in the first quarter, a dramatic increase..."??
> What?
>
> Trouble is many of those so-called "new" products are simply tweeking
> decades-old existing products or superficially contrived "innovation"
> involving changing ingredients, labels, packaging, size, colour,
> undsoweiter.
>
> Typical DuPont Management public relations puffery and hype to disguise
> the grim reality this decayed and much shrunken chemical conglomerate
> hasn't created a new major high-profit blockbuster product or breakthrough
> technology for years! Corn-made clothes and corn carpets, don't cut
> it. Sorry.
>
> ...funfun..

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Being that 5 years is the normal time frame and that the recent chemical handling and scandals in China, it is no surprise it is taking longer to get through the red tape before construction.