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Fin 516 - Minicase - John Deere & Co

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FIN-516 Week 2 - MINI – CASE ASSIGNMENT |

Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) |

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A fundamental Analysis into the financial performance of Deer and Company (NYSE :DE ), better known as JOHN DEERE & CO. |

FIN-516 – WEEK 2 – MINI – CASE ASSIGNMENT

Deere & Company (NYSE:DE)

1. What is the name of the company? What is the industry sector?

Deere & Company also more commonly known as John Deere, along with its subsidiaries, operates in three segments: agriculture and turf segment, construction and forestry segment and financial services segment. The John Deere agriculture and turf segment manufactures and distributes a full line of agricultural and turf equipment and related service parts. John Deere construction, earthmoving, material handling and forestry equipment includes a broad range of backhoe loaders, crawler dozers and loaders, four-wheel-drive loaders, excavators, motor graders, articulated dump trucks, landscape loaders, skid-steer loaders, log skidders, log feller bunchers, log loaders, log forwarders, log harvesters and a variety of attachments. The financial services segment primarily finances sales and leases by John Deere dealers of new and used agriculture and turf equipment and construction and forestry equipment

2. What are the operating risks of the company?

John Deere being a global company has multiple factors that could be considered as operating risks for the company. Listed here are few of the risks.

* International, national and regional trade laws, regulations and policies (particularly those related to or restricting global trade) and government farm programs and policies, could significantly impair John Deere’s profitability and growth prospects

* Changing worldwide demand for food and for different forms of bio-energy could have an effect on the price of farm commodities and consequently the demand for certain John Deere equipment and could also result in higher research



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