New Buy Rating for Corteva (CTVA), the Basic Materials Giant

RBC Capital analyst Arun Viswanathan maintained a Buy rating on Corteva on May 7 and set a price target of $97.00. The company’s shares closed yesterday at $79.07.

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Viswanathan covers the Basic Materials sector, focusing on stocks such as PPG Industries, Albemarle, and Celanese. According to TipRanks, Viswanathan has an average return of 3.6% and a 53.91% success rate on recommended stocks.

In addition to RBC Capital, Corteva also received a Buy from Barclays’s Benjamin Theurer in a report issued yesterday. However, on May 7, Citi maintained a Hold rating on Corteva (NYSE: CTVA).

Based on Corteva’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $3.91 billion and a GAAP net loss of $552 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $3.98 billion and had a GAAP net loss of $41 million

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 67 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of CTVA in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in February 2026, BRIAN TITUS, the VP, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer of CTVA sold 8,311.00 shares for a total of $636,170.16.