It's Time For a Quick Look at Deere &'s Fundamentals.

By Chris Stiles • Monday, January 13 15:10 • Permanent Link

Shares of Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery company Deere & jumped 5.4% today. With many investors piling into DE without a second thought, it may be a good idea to take a closer look at the stock. Here are some quick facts to get you started:

Deere & has moved 6.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 22.3%
DE has an average analyst rating of buy and is -7.28% away from its mean target price of $464.48 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $25.62
Deere & has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 16.8 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $22.17 and its forward P/E ratio is 19.4
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 5.11 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Deere & is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 25.42 and an average P/B of 3.2
DE has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -38.3% and gross profit margins of 0.3%
The company has a free cash flow of $3.0 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Deere & Company engages in the manufacture and distribution of 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 large and medium tractors, combines, cotton pickers and strippers, sugarcane harvesters and loaders, harvesting front-end equipment, 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. The company was founded in 1837 and is headquartered in Moline, Illinois.

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