Deere & Co (NYSE: DE)

Deere & Company manufactures agricultural, construction, and forestry equipment while providing financial services to support its equipment sales. The company operates globally with a focus on integrating advanced technology into its machinery to improve customer productivity and sustainability.

Deere & Company generates revenue through the sale of equipment and related parts and services across its three equipment segments, as well as through financing and interest income from its Financial Services segment. The company sells products to farmers, contractors, and landowners, and provides loans, leases, and warranty contracts to dealers and end-users.

The company operates through the following segments: Production & Precision Agriculture, Small Agriculture & Turf, Construction & Forestry, and Financial Services.

• Production & Precision Agriculture focuses on large-scale farming equipment including four-wheel-drive and track tractors, harvesters for corn soy cotton and sugarcane, tillage seeding and application equipment, and related precision technology solutions.

• Small Agriculture & Turf provides specialty utility and compact tractors, hay and forage equipment, self-propelled forage harvesters, turf and utility equipment such as riding lawn mowers commercial mowing equipment golf course equipment utility vehicles and implements for residential commercial golf and sports turf care.

• Construction & Forestry manufactures excavators motor graders crawler dozers and loaders skid steers compact excavators compact wheel loaders backhoes articulated dump trucks milling machines recyclers slipform pavers surface miners asphalt pavers compactors rollers mobile crushers and screens skidders feller bunchers forwarders harvesters and precision forestry technology solutions.

• Financial Services provides retail notes revolving charge accounts wholesale receivables leases and extended warranties to support equipment sales in the United States Canada and internationally through company-owned subsidiaries and joint ventures with local financial institutions.

Deere & Company holds a strong competitive position in the global agricultural equipment industry, facing rivals such as AGCO Corporation, CLAAS KGaA mbH, CNH Industrial N. V., Kubota Tractor Corporation, and The Toro Company, while maintaining advantages through brand recognition, integrated technology solutions, and a extensive dealer network. In construction and forestry, it competes with Caterpillar Inc., CNH Industrial N. V., Doosan Infracore Co., Ltd., Fayat Group, GOMACO Corporation, Hitachi Construction Machinery, Komatsu Ltd., Kubota Tractor Corporation, LGMG, Liugong, Ponsse Plc, SANY Group Co., Ltd., SDLG, Terex, Tigercat Industries Inc., Volvo Construction Equipment, and XCMG.

The company serves production-scale growers of corn soy cotton and sugarcane, dairy and livestock producers, high-value crop and small acreage farmers, turf and utility customers including golf course maintenance providers, landscapers, and residential and commercial property owners, as well as contractors in earthmoving forestry roadbuilding and material handling industries across North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.