Dow Shareholder Sues Its Top Brass Over Trade Fears Earnings Hit

Dow Inc. leadership overhyped its strength against tariff turmoil and macroeconomic trends before disclosing a wider-than-expected quarterly earnings loss and halved its dividend, a shareholder lawsuit said.

The chemical company’s stock price plunged more than 17% on July 24, the day it dropped disappointing second quarter of 2025 sales and earnings figures, the stockholder told the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. That was the stock’s steepest single-day slide since March 2020, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Leading up to this, top brass rosily touted Dow’s unique strength while downplaying trade regulation uncertainties and an industry-wide ...