Deere & Company (DE)

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Deere & Company's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Deere & Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $27 billion in fiscal 2016 to $46 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.2% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 25% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-11-02, Deere & Company's diluted share count shrank about 3.9% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 68% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 27 sales (27 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-11-02, Deere & Company earned about 19 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 76 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Deere & Company's standing among 63 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $46 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 4% by size; a net margin of 10.9% ranks in the top 33%; revenue growth of -4.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 20% (its annual reports).

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Deere & Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is May, John C II (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-12-13, 6.9 years (top 36% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 4.2 years (bottom 28%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (top 44%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Deere & Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $8.3 billion against no long-term debt tagged leaves 7.8% of its assets as net cash, top 16% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 13.4% of revenue (top 26%); research spending of 5.1% of revenue (top 26%) (its annual report).

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Deere & Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -4.6% a year over the last three filed years against 6.2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 9% of its family); the newest year grew -11.5% (bottom 6%); research spending grew 6.5% a year (top 42%); capital spending grew 6.2% a year (top 34%) (its annual reports). Deere & Company reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $39 billion (85%), Financial Service at $5.7 billion (13%), Other at $1.0 billion (2%); 0 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Deere & Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $46 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 10.9% below the $51 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 7% of its family); net income of $5.0 billion against a prior three-year average of $8.1 billion (bottom 28%); a net margin of 10.9% against 14.6% before (bottom 25%) (its annual reports).