Deere & Company DE
Stock research in plain language · As of Oct 04, 2026 · updated once a week, after the trading week closes
What the company does
Deere & Company is a large-cap company in the Industrials sector (Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery), with a market value of $185.2B, based in the USA.
It employs about 73,100 people and has been listed since Jun 01, 1972.
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 four-wheel-drive track and row crop tractors, harvesters, cotton pickers and strippers, sugarcane harvesters and loaders, soil preparation, tillage, seeding, and crop care equipment, as well as application equipment, including sprayers and nutrient management, soil preparation machinery, and related attachments and service parts.
Cheap or expensive? priced in line with its group
Its price-to-earnings (P/E) is 37.0 versus 26.5 for 3 direct peers — priced in line with its group.
Revenue is growing 5% versus the same quarter last year.
On analysts' next-year forecasts the multiple drops to 29.3 — they expect higher earnings.
The average analyst price target is 691.83, 1% above the current price (their view, not ours).
The stock sits at 89% of its one-year range (0% = the low, 100% = the high).
The risks
- • Net debt is 1.9× shareholders' equity — high leverage.
Strengths
- ✅ Profitable — 11 of every 100 dollars of revenue stays as profit.
- ✅ Generates free cash flow — profit becomes cash in the bank.
- ✅ Most analysts rate it buy (16 vs 1).
- ✅ Pays a dividend (1.0% a year).
What changed this week
Over the past week the stock fell 0.3% (for comparison: S&P 500 -0.2%, sector ETF XLI -0.3%).
This week's news
- Will Deere's (DE) Shift Toward Construction and Small Equipment Reshape Its Precision Tech Narrative? finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-03
- Why Deere (DE) Outpaced the Stock Market Today finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-02
- Deere (DE) Finds Growth In Construction And Small Equipment finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-02
- Is Deere (DE) Cheap Following Its Digital Growth Narrative? finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-01
- Caterpillar's $1B Compact Equipment Investment: A Growth Driver? finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-01
- Wall Street Analysts Think Deere (DE) Is a Good Investment: Is It? finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-01
A description of facts from the filings and the market — not investment advice or a recommendation. "Cheap" and "expensive" are always relative to the comparison group.