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Terex builds machines that help customers collect waste, maintain utility lines, process materials and work at height. Its environmental business supplies waste-collection and recycling equipment and utility-service trucks. Its materials-processing business makes equipment that crushes, sorts and moves materials for construction, quarrying and recycling. Genie platforms lift workers to elevated jobs, while its telehandlers lift and place loads.
Rental companies and independent distributors buy equipment to rent or sell to users; Terex also sells directly and supplies replacement parts and service. National rental companies account for a substantial share of sales in its aerial and environmental businesses. Sales therefore depend partly on these companies’ fleet purchases, dealer coverage and buyers’ access to third-party financing, as well as customers’ construction and infrastructure spending.
The completed merger with REV added customized vehicles for public services, commercial infrastructure and consumer leisure, mainly serving U.S. customers. Terex is also reviewing its aerial business for a possible sale; that is not a completed disposal.
Some products must meet emissions, fuel-efficiency, noise and safety standards. These requirements affect equipment design and the cost and availability of components such as vehicle chassis.
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Beyond rental-fleet investment and waste-hauler spending, Terex faces important rivals to watch: Metso in materials processing and privately held Altec in utility equipment.
Oshkosh competes for Terex's equipment buyers across aerial platforms, telehandlers, refuse collection vehicles and concrete mixers, with firefighting vehicles added after the REV merger. Watch its aerial-equipment and refuse-vehicle sales for competition facing Terex's Genie and waste-equipment businesses.
Astec competes with Terex for construction and materials-processing customers buying crushers, screens, conveyors, and wood-processing and recycling equipment. Its Materials Solutions results are the part to watch for competition facing Terex's materials-processing business.
Federal Signal's New Way garbage-truck bodies compete directly with Terex's Heil products for waste-hauler and municipal purchases. New Way sales are the business to watch for competition over those customers' equipment spending.
Terex's utility-equipment sales are tied to Custom Truck One Source, Inc., which buys equipment for its fleet and sells and rents Terex equipment to utilities and infrastructure contractors. Watch Custom Truck's fleet investment and demand from those customers.
Deere's Kleemann equipment competes with Terex for buyers of crushers, screens and conveyors, but agriculture drives most of Deere's equipment sales. Watch Kleemann's business rather than Deere's overall sales when assessing competition for Terex's materials-processing equipment.
Caterpillar and Terex both depend on construction, infrastructure and mining investment for equipment demand, and compete directly in material handlers. Caterpillar's construction and mining equipment sales offer a read on the spending that also supports Terex's materials-processing equipment.
Custom Truck One Source, Inc. earningsCTOS
Custom Truck One Source's report will show whether utility and infrastructure customers' equipment needs are prompting it to invest in its fleet and sell or rent Terex utility equipment.
Watch Custom Truck One Source's fleet investment alongside demand from its utility and infrastructure customers. Strength in both would suggest that equipment buying and end-customer needs are supporting Terex utility equipment. Weakness in either could mean buyers are holding back; fleet investment can also reflect inventory and rental-fleet timing, so it does not by itself establish a change in Terex orders.
Durable Goods Orders MoM (Sep)
Orders for long-lasting equipment show whether demand is strengthening for Terex’s refuse, utility, materials-processing and Genie aerial equipment, which can change what dealers, rental companies and other customers buy and Terex’s equipment sales.
Expected0.2%Last release-0.1%
If it comes in above expectations
If the reading is above the 0.2% estimate, it is above the previous -0.1%. Stronger-than-expected orders would point to firmer equipment demand, potentially lifting dealer and rental-company purchases of Terex machines and supporting sales across its segments.
If it comes in below expectations
Weaker-than-expected orders would point to softer equipment demand, potentially leading dealers and rental companies to buy less from Terex and weighing on segment sales.
Terex Corporation earningsThis company
Terex's report will show whether sales of aerial and materials-processing equipment are translating into better operating profit in those businesses, rather than merely lifting consolidated revenue.
Read sales alongside operating margin for Aerials and Materials Processing; operating margin is the operating profit earned per dollar of sales. If sales and margins improve in both, stronger demand is translating into better profits. If either measure remains weak, consolidated revenue growth has not yet restored these businesses' earning power.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
The Fed’s policy rate tracks the cost of borrowing across the economy; because Terex says equipment demand depends on interest rates and significant sales use third-party financing, it can affect customers’ ability to finance purchases and Terex’s equipment sales.
Expected4.0%Last release4.0%
If it comes in above expectations
A higher-than-expected rate could make financed equipment purchases costlier for Terex’s customers, potentially reducing orders to dealers and rental companies and weighing on Terex’s sales.
If it comes in below expectations
A lower-than-expected rate could ease financing costs for Terex’s customers, potentially supporting equipment purchases and orders through dealers and rental companies.
Caterpillar Inc. earningsCAT
Caterpillar's report will show how construction and mining equipment customers are spending, providing a read on the markets that also buy Terex materials-processing equipment.
Read Caterpillar's construction and mining equipment sales alongside Terex Materials Processing sales. Improvement in both would point to firmer equipment spending in shared markets. If Caterpillar's sales weaken and Terex Materials Processing is also soft, demand pressure is a more grounded reading than assuming a rival has taken Terex's customers.
Federal Signal Corp. earningsFSS
Federal Signal's report will show how sales of New Way refuse-truck bodies are changing, in a market where they compete with Terex's Heil products for waste-hauler and municipal customers.
Watch New Way sales. Rising sales could reflect more purchases by waste haulers and municipalities, or a rival winning more of that business; either way, competition for Terex's Heil products is more active. Falling sales could ease that pressure, but could also mean customers are buying less overall, not that Heil has won the orders.
Oshkosh Corp. earningsOSK
Oshkosh's report will show how sales of its aerial equipment are changing in a market where those products compete with Terex's Genie equipment.
Read Oshkosh aerial-equipment sales alongside Terex's Genie results. Stronger Oshkosh sales would point to firmer buyer spending and a more active competitor for Genie. Weaker sales could mean softer demand or less competitive pressure; Oshkosh's overall results alone cannot show whether Genie is winning customers.
Astec Industries Inc earningsASTE
Astec's report will show how its Materials Solutions business is doing, where it competes with Terex for buyers of crushers, screens and other materials-processing equipment.
Focus on sales in Astec's Materials Solutions business and compare them with Terex Materials Processing. Stronger results would point to healthy buying in these equipment markets or a more capable direct rival. Weaker results could signal softer shared demand, not necessarily business won by Terex.
Industrial Production MoM (Oct)
Factory, mine and utility output shows demand for industrial goods and their inputs; because Terex depends on suppliers for equipment components and final assemblies, production constraints can raise its costs or delay deliveries and sales.
Read stronger output as a sign of firmer demand for industrial inputs that could strain Terex’s suppliers and delay equipment production or deliveries; weaker output may ease that pressure.
