Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the long-anticipated breakup of the world's largest chemical conglomerate, DowDuPont. Executed in the hope that each of the three new businesses -- DuPont (NYSE: DD); Dow (NYSE: DOW); and Corteva (NYSE: CTVA) -- would operate more efficiently by themselves, the break-off couldn't have come at a worse time.

Given DuPont's 50% year-to-date (YTD) decline, it's a good time to gauge whether DuPont is a buy or if its headwinds are too severe to look past.

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