Deere & Co
About: Deere is the world's leading manufacturer of agricultural equipment and a major producer of construction machinery. The company is divided into four reporting segments: production & precision agriculture (PPA), small agriculture & turf (SAT), construction & forestry (CF), and financial services (FS), its captive finance subsidiary. The core PPA business is the largest contributor to sales and profits by far. Geographically, Deere sales are 60% US/Canada, 17% Europe, 14% Latin America, and 9% rest of world. Deere goes to market through a robust dealer network that includes over 2,000 dealer locations in North America with reach into over 100 countries. John Deere financial provides retail financing for machinery to its customers and wholesale financing for dealers.
Employees: 75,800
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
119% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 208 | Existing positions closed: 95
25% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $1.53B | Put options by funds: $1.22B
11% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $91.7B [Q1] → $102B (+$9.89B) [Q2]
3% more funds holding
Funds holding: 2,314 [Q1] → 2,389 (+75) [Q2]
1.96% more ownership
Funds ownership: 71.97% [Q1] → 73.93% (+1.96%) [Q2]
6% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 906 | Existing positions reduced: 853
4% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 50 [Q1] → 48 (-2) [Q2]
Research analyst outlook
6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
6 analyst ratings
Oppenheimer
Noah Kaye
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$512
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Outperform
Maintained
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18 Sep 2025 |
JP Morgan
Tami Zakaria
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$495
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Neutral
Maintained
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2 Sep 2025 |
DA Davidson
Michael Shlisky
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$580
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Buy
Maintained
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18 Aug 2025 |
Baird
Mircea Dobre
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$488
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Neutral
Maintained
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15 Aug 2025 |
Truist Securities
Jamie Cook
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$602
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Buy
Maintained
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15 Aug 2025 |
Oppenheimer
Kristen Owen
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$560
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Outperform
Maintained
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15 Jul 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 20 articles about DE published over the past 30 days