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Deere & Co.’s earnings report surprised more than a few analysts, but many aren’t buying into the company’s forecast for the year ahead, though it’s lower than their fiscal 2013 results.
While Ag Equipment Intelligence regularly reports on the earnings of the full-line farm equipment makers and publicly held dealership groups, we haven’t provided a lot of coverage of the specialty equipment manufacturers serving the ag and rural lifestyle equipment markets.
The world’s number two and three largest farm equipment manufacturers, CNH Industrial and AGCO Corp., put up pretty good numbers based on farm equipment sales for the third quarter of the year and year-to-date. At the same time, it doesn’t appear that either one are looking for big things in the months ahead.
While improving year-over-year revenues by 16.1%, Lindsay Corp.’s weak domestic sales of irrigation systems appears to setting the tone for continuing soft business levels going into its new fiscal year.
Despite challenging market conditions and the trauma of an earthquake in 2012, the manufacturer of Landini, McCormick and Valpadana tractors continued to improve its profitability through increased efficiencies.
Deere & Co.’s third-quarter 2013 results easily surpassed analysts’ expectations as the world’s largest ag equipment maker posted a 26% increase in income on a 4% gain in net sales and revenues. At the same time, Deere said it expects a weaker fourth quarter in this fiscal year.
While Titan Machinery reported fiscal year first-quarter revenue increased 4.7% to $442 million vs. the same period last year, its revenue was approximately $50 million lower than the dealer’s initial guidance.
Rocky Mountain Equipment (RME), Case IH’s largest dealer group in western Canada, saw a healthy bump in both sales and earnings in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period a year earlier.
For the period ended March 31, Cervus Equipment Corp. (CVL), the publicly held John Deere dealership based in Calgary, reported its first-quarter revenue increased by 35.7% to $148.9 million from $109.8 million vs. the same period of 2012.
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