DuPont Declares Second Quarter Dividend, Announces Share Repurchase Program, Buyback Up To $2B (DD)

DuPont DD declared a second quarter common stock dividend of 41 cents per share payable June 10 to stockholders of record May 13.  This dividend is the same as what was paid in the first quarter 2011. This is the 427th consecutive quarterly dividend since the company's first dividend in the fourth quarter of 1904 . Regular quarterly dividends of $1.12-1/2 per share on the $4.50 series preferred stock and 87-1/2 cents per share on the $3.50 series preferred stock also were declared, both payable July 25, 2011, to stockholders of record July 8, 2011.