Stock price when the opinion was issued
Long-term chart demonstrates the excellent business and operations. We all need to eat. Focus going forward will be autonomous farming vehicles -- it will sell software to farmers as well as equipment. Valuation will ebb and flow with food and commodity prices, as well as the economy. He stays away from commodity-type businesses.
He took some profits today after buying it over $400. They execute better than CAT. Deere just reported a great, but imperfect quarter. Inventories were higher. Not expensive. 15x PE is good and likes their AI applications, but farmers will need to afford that. It's not the right stock in the economy moving forward.