Quick Overview of Deere & Company

By Kim Brooks • Monday, December 11 16:32 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Deere & Company, a Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery company whose shares moved -0.7% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Deere & Company has moved -16.8% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.4%
DE has an average analyst rating of buy and is -8.04% away from its mean target price of $392.59 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $34.62
Deere & Company has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 10.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $26.73 and its forward P/E ratio is 13.5
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 4.73 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Deere & Company is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.19 and an average P/B of 4.06
DE has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 11.2% and gross profit margins of 0.4%
The company has a free cash flow of $5.05 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Deere & Company manufactures and distributes various equipment worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Production and Precision Agriculture, Small Agriculture and Turf, Construction and Forestry, and Financial Services. The Production and Precision Agriculture segment provides mid-size tractors, combines, cotton pickers and strippers, sugarcane harvesters, harvesting front-end equipment, sugarcane loaders, pull-behind scrapers, and tillage and seeding equipment, as well as application equipment, including sprayers and nutrient management, and soil preparation machinery for grain growers. The Small Agriculture and Turf segment offers utility tractors, and related loaders and attachments; turf and utility equipment, including riding lawn equipment, commercial mowing equipment, golf course equipment, and utility vehicles, as well as implements for mowing, tilling, snow and debris handling, aerating, residential, commercial, golf, and sports turf care applications; other outdoor power products; and hay and forage equipment. This segment also resells products from other manufacturers. It serves dairy and livestock producers, crop producers, and turf and utility customers. The Construction and Forestry segment provides a range of backhoe loaders, crawler dozers and loaders, four-wheel-drive loaders, excavators, motor graders, articulated dump trucks, landscape and skid-steer loaders, milling machines, pavers, compactors, rollers, crushers, screens, asphalt plants, log skidders, log feller bunchers, log loaders and forwarders, log harvesters, and attachments; and roadbuilding equipment. The Financial Services segment finances sales and leases agriculture and turf, and construction and forestry equipment. It also offers wholesale financing to dealers of the foregoing equipment; and extended equipment warranties, as well as finances retail revolving charge accounts. Deere & Company was founded in 1837 and is headquartered in Moline, Illinois.

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