Designs and manufactures agricultural equipment such as tractors, combines, and harvesters. Produces construction equipment including excavators, loaders, and dozers. Now — the numbers.
That much dependence is a risk in itself: if this one line weakens, the whole company feels it directly.
This is an established company with proven profits.
No real growth (-2% a year).
If every debt were paid off today, $2.6B would still be left in the vault — a solid cushion for hard times.
The market pays 28.2× for every dollar of annual profit — around what a business like this usually costs.
Analysts' average target sits 48% above today's price.
angles, checked one by one.
The 2 that stand out are on screen; the rest came back neutral.
The council scores out of 10; report-card grades are out of 100.
Cost Efficiency: As sales grow, profit fails to keep the same pace.
The stock trades 36% below its peak. The market has trimmed its expectations for the company.
There is $2.6B in the vault; even if every debt were paid off, $2.6B would remain.
It pays out $0.47 per share each year — regular cash for whoever holds the stock.
Over the last 4 years, sales fell about 2% a year on average. Profit is holding up, but a shrinking business is a risk worth watching.
Since the drop from its peak, buyer appetite hasn’t come back. Council score: 0/10.
Costs swallow the gains that sales growth brings in. Council score: 4/10.
We don’t have a report card for this stock yet — the data isn’t mature enough to grade. No grade is information too: it means the evidence is thin.
One-line summary: few numbers, an untested story. Keep watching.