Types of securities

The number of common shares the company is authorized to issue is 1,200 million. The number of authorized preferred shares, none of which has been issued, is nine million. Common stock, $1 par value (authorized – 1,200,000,000 shares,issued – 536,431,204 shares in 2015 and 2014), at paid-in amount,Common stock in treasury, 219,743,893 shares in 2015,and 190,926,805 shares in 2014, at cost.

Stock valuation

The cash flow for John Deere is not so well, $0.42 billion for year 2012, $0.91 billion for 2013 and negative cash flows for 2014 and 2015 (-$0.23 and -$0.70 billion, respectively), and $1.75 for 2017. The average cash flows for the last 5 years were $0.39 billion, with the new cash flows, the average cash flow per year increases marginally to $0.44 billion. Deere & Company traded at a price-to-earnings ratio of around 16 during 2008, and around 10 during 2013 during its last 2 peak earnings years. Based on the data above, the company’s peak-to-peak cycle takes around 6 years.Peak earnings may come around 2019 for Deere & Company. If the company does earn $17.25 a year in 2019 and has a price-to-earnings ratio of 10 – this implies a share price of $172.50. This comes to an annualized share price growth rate of 13% a year. This will be a likely given Deere & Company’s history of strong earnings-per-share growth. Deere & Company’s earnings-per-share are highly cyclical. In full 2015 the company is expected to have earning-per-share of $5.35. At current prices, this comes to a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.4. While a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.4 is very reasonable for a high quality industry leading business with a 12.7% earnings-per-share growth rate over the last decade, Deere & Company is cheaper than it appears. 2013 peak earnings-per-share of $9.08.The numbers above show that Deere & Company has