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CNH Industrial earns most of its revenue from agricultural equipment, including Case IH and New Holland tractors, harvesters and other farm machinery. It also makes construction equipment such as excavators and loaders. CNH sells most equipment and parts at wholesale prices to independent dealers and distributors; dealers then sell to end users and provide service. Parts for machines already in use, maintenance contracts and precision-farming systems extend the business beyond new-equipment sales.
Its Financial Services business helps customers buy or lease equipment and helps dealers finance machines held for sale, earning interest and lease income. This financing supports equipment sales rather than operating as an unrelated lending business. It depends on borrowers repaying and CNH obtaining funding at competitive rates.
Equipment demand depends on farmers’ income, weather and subsidies, and on construction activity and infrastructure spending. Dealer purchasing also matters: dealers carrying excess stock can cut orders even when end users are still buying. CNH’s products must meet emissions and safety requirements, which can restrict sales if they are not met.
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CNH’s results hinge chiefly on farmers’ machinery spending; also watch agricultural rivals Kubota and privately held CLAAS, neither of which appears in this list.
Deere and CNH compete for farmers’ spending on tractors, harvesters and precision-farming systems, and contractors’ spending on construction machinery. Deere’s tractor and harvester sales offer a read on the farm-equipment replacement demand that also matters to CNH.
AGCO competes with CNH for farmers’ tractor, harvesting-equipment and precision-agriculture purchases through Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Valtra and PTx. Tractors accounted for 66% of AGCO’s 2025 net sales, making that revenue line a useful gauge of farmers’ machinery spending.
Titan Machinery buys equipment from CNH and resells it to farmers and construction customers, so CNH depends on its dealers’ ability to turn equipment into retail sales; CNH supplies most of Titan’s new equipment. Watch Titan’s new- and used-equipment sales and inventories for signs of demand and the room to buy more from CNH.
Caterpillar competes with CNH for construction-equipment buyers, but its mining and power businesses make its overall results a less focused comparison. Its construction-machinery sales are the more relevant line to watch for demand tied to infrastructure spending and construction activity.
Lindsay and CNH both depend on growers’ ability and willingness to invest: Lindsay sells irrigation systems, while CNH sells tractors, harvesters and precision-farming equipment. Lindsay’s irrigation sales offer another view of farmers’ spending on equipment that improves productivity.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
CNH’s rate-sensitive financing business earns income from loans for dealers’ and customers’ equipment purchases, while paying to fund those loans, so Federal Reserve rate decisions can change its finance income, funding costs and margins.
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If it comes in above expectations
For CNH Financial Services, higher rates can raise funding costs on debt that reprices and new borrowing, potentially squeezing margins if income on its financed portfolio does not keep pace; the effect depends on rate matching and hedging.
If it comes in below expectations
For CNH Financial Services, lower rates can reduce costs on repricing debt and new borrowing, potentially supporting margins if income from its financed portfolio does not fall as much; the effect depends on rate matching and hedging.
AGCO Corporation earningsAGCO
AGCO’s tractor and harvesting-equipment sales will show whether farmers are still investing in the machinery it sells in direct competition with CNH.
Compare AGCO’s tractor and harvesting-equipment sales with CNH’s Agriculture shipments. If AGCO’s sales hold up and CNH’s shipments stabilize, farmers are still buying this kind of machinery and demand pressure may be easing; if AGCO’s sales weaken, farmers are still deferring purchases, a headwind CNH faces in the same market.
Caterpillar Inc. earningsCAT
Caterpillar’s construction-machinery sales will show whether equipment buyers are still ordering in the market where its Construction business competes with CNH.
Compare Caterpillar’s construction-machinery sales with CNH’s Construction shipments. Firm Caterpillar sales alongside stabilizing CNH shipments would show that buyers are still ordering equipment and demand pressure may be easing; weaker Caterpillar sales would point to buyers cutting back, a headwind for CNH in the same market.
CNH INDUSTRIAL N.V. earningsThis company
CNH’s report will show whether Agriculture shipments are stabilizing and whether lower sales and discounting are still squeezing the segment’s profit margin.
Read Agriculture shipments alongside its adjusted EBIT margin—the segment’s adjusted operating profit as a share of sales. Stabilizing shipments and a steadier margin would show that weaker farmer and dealer demand and sales discounts are doing less damage; falling shipments and a further margin decline would show that deferred purchases, discounting and underused capacity are still squeezing profit.
Titan Machinery Inc. earningsTITN
Titan Machinery resells CNH equipment, so its equipment sales and inventories will show whether customers are buying and whether dealers have room to replenish from CNH.
Read Titan Machinery’s new- and used-equipment sales alongside its inventories. Steady sales with controlled inventories would show that farm and construction customers are taking equipment and dealers have room to keep buying from CNH; weaker sales with rising inventories would mean equipment is moving slowly off dealer lots, so dealers may postpone CNH orders.
