Corteva is now up 100%

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CORTEVA INC. $57 is a buy. The company (New York symbol CTVA; Manufacturing sector; Shares outstanding: 697.0 million; Market cap: $39.7 billion; Dividend yield: 1.1%; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.corteva.com) makes seeds and crop-protection chemicals. On June 1, 2019, DowDuPont investors received one Corteva share for every three shares they held. The company’s sales are generally strongest in the first half of the calendar year, which aligns with the planting and growing season of the northern hemisphere. In the quarter ended March 31, 2024, revenue fell 8.0%, to $4.49 billion from $4.88 billion a year earlier. Strong performance in the company’s North American seed business was offset by weakness in its crop protection unit. Excluding one-time items, Corteva made $0.89 in the quarter. That’s down 23.3% from $1.16. The decline came from the lower crop protection sales, as well as higher input costs. Corteva will probably earn $2.83 a share for all of 2024. The stock—up nearly 100% since the spinoff—trades at a reasonable 20.1 times…