Industrials · Agriculture equipment
DE Deere & Company
Builds tractors, combines, sprayers and construction and forestry equipment, and increasingly sells the software and sensors that run them.
- The combine in the field below.
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How it makes money
- Selling new equipment through independent dealers
- Parts and service over the life of a machine
- Financing — Deere lends farmers the money to buy its equipment
- Precision-agriculture software and subscriptions
What an owner watches
- Farm income and crop prices — when farmers earn more, they buy more
- Used-equipment inventories at dealers
- Interest rates, because much of its equipment is financed
- Adoption of its technology features
Questions we ask in class
- How does a good harvest year two states away end up in this company's results?
- Why does a manufacturer also run a bank?
- What does an owner learn from dealer inventories?
What this page is
An educational profile: what the business does and the questions an owner asks. It is not investment advice, not a recommendation to buy or sell Deere & Company, and not a forecast. Every company page on this site follows the same structure so you can compare businesses, not prices. Disclosures →