Deere & Co. operates the following segments: Production and Precision Agriculture, which develops equipment and technology solutions for growers of large grains, small grains, cotton, and sugar; Small Agriculture and Turf, which develops equipment and technology solutions for dairy and livestock producers, crop producers, and turf and utility customers; Construction and Forestry, which develops machines and technology solutions for the earthmoving, forestry, and roadbuilding production systems; Financial Services, which finances sales and leases by Co.'s dealers of new and used production and precision agriculture, small agriculture and turf, and construction and forestry equipment.
When researching a stock like Deere, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from DE Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for DE stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of these ways is called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI. This popular indicator, originally developed in the 1970's by J. Welles Wilder, looks at a 14-day moving average of a stock's gains on its up days, versus its losses on its down days. The resulting DE RSI is a value that measures momentum, oscillating between "oversold" and "overbought" on a scale of zero to 100. A reading below 30 is viewed to be oversold, which a bullish investor could look to as a sign that the selling is in the process of exhausting itself, and look for entry point opportunities. A reading above 70 is viewed to be overbought, which could indicate that a rally in progress is starting to get crowded with buyers. If the rally has been a long one, that could be a sign that a pullback is overdue. |
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