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$512.17 -7.03 (-1.35%)
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DE vs. LECO, AGCO, AIT, ALG, AOS, CAT, FL, IR, TWI, and XYL

Should you be buying Deere & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Deere & Company include Lincoln Electric (LECO), AGCO (AGCO), Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), Alamo Group (ALG), A. O. Smith (AOS), Caterpillar (CAT), Foot Locker (FL), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Titan International (TWI), and Xylem (XYL).

Deere & Company vs. Its Competitors

Lincoln Electric (NASDAQ:LECO) and Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Lincoln Electric presently has a consensus price target of $206.40, suggesting a potential downside of 7.35%. Deere & Company has a consensus price target of $515.19, suggesting a potential upside of 0.59%. Given Deere & Company's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Deere & Company is more favorable than Lincoln Electric.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Lincoln Electric
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40
Deere & Company
0 Sell rating(s)
12 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.48

Deere & Company has higher revenue and earnings than Lincoln Electric. Deere & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lincoln Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Lincoln Electric$4.01B3.10$466.11M$8.1127.47
Deere & Company$51.72B2.68$7.10B$20.6724.78

Lincoln Electric pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Deere & Company pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Lincoln Electric pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Deere & Company pays out 31.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Lincoln Electric has increased its dividend for 30 consecutive years and Deere & Company has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Lincoln Electric is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Lincoln Electric has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Deere & Company has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

79.6% of Lincoln Electric shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.6% of Deere & Company shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Lincoln Electric shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Deere & Company shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Deere & Company had 25 more articles in the media than Lincoln Electric. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Deere & Company and 13 mentions for Lincoln Electric. Deere & Company's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Lincoln Electric's score of 1.21 indicating that Deere & Company is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Lincoln Electric
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Deere & Company
33 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Deere & Company has a net margin of 12.40% compared to Lincoln Electric's net margin of 11.44%. Lincoln Electric's return on equity of 39.44% beat Deere & Company's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Lincoln Electric11.44% 39.44% 14.75%
Deere & Company 12.40%24.39%5.32%

Summary

Deere & Company beats Lincoln Electric on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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DE vs. The Competition

MetricDeere & CompanyMACH IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$138.77B$18.18B$7.55B$20.65B
Dividend Yield1.26%1.21%4.53%3.72%
P/E Ratio24.7811.8225.1727.84
Price / Sales2.681.10120.7942.29
Price / Cash15.1011.5127.3622.32
Price / Book6.092.144.404.57
Net Income$7.10B$959.03M$791.63M$989.30M
7 Day Performance-1.03%-1.90%0.73%0.20%
1 Month Performance0.61%5.37%5.36%5.53%
1 Year Performance40.19%14.79%28.02%10.30%

Deere & Company Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DE
Deere & Company
4.2798 of 5 stars
$512.17
-1.4%
$515.19
+0.6%
+40.2%$138.77B$51.72B24.7875,800Positive News
LECO
Lincoln Electric
3.789 of 5 stars
$216.12
+1.1%
$206.40
-4.5%
+13.1%$12.07B$4.01B26.6512,000News Coverage
Positive News
AGCO
AGCO
4.1195 of 5 stars
$109.70
-0.8%
$104.10
-5.1%
+13.1%$8.18B$11.66B-14.0624,000Trending News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Buyback Announcement
AIT
Applied Industrial Technologies
4.7161 of 5 stars
$245.48
+0.1%
$285.00
+16.1%
+31.2%$9.35B$4.48B24.656,500News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Revision
ALG
Alamo Group
3.3426 of 5 stars
$226.21
+0.3%
$196.33
-13.2%
+30.6%$2.73B$1.63B23.564,200
AOS
A. O. Smith
4.7084 of 5 stars
$67.92
-0.2%
$75.29
+10.8%
-21.3%$9.65B$3.82B18.9712,700Positive News
Dividend Announcement
CAT
Caterpillar
4.7865 of 5 stars
$399.33
+0.2%
$380.83
-4.6%
+21.0%$188.10B$64.81B19.46112,900Trending News
Analyst Upgrade
FL
Foot Locker
3.7504 of 5 stars
$24.74
-0.1%
$21.20
-14.3%
+1.3%$2.36B$7.90B-6.5647,306
IR
Ingersoll Rand
3.8074 of 5 stars
$87.01
+0.5%
$98.70
+13.4%
-8.5%$35.10B$7.24B43.0721,000News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
TWI
Titan International
3.0761 of 5 stars
$10.72
-1.3%
$11.00
+2.6%
+35.2%$682.91M$1.85B-51.058,303
XYL
Xylem
4.4424 of 5 stars
$132.28
+0.4%
$143.71
+8.6%
-5.4%$32.19B$8.56B35.5623,000Positive News

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