Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) Q3 2024 Results Conference Call August 15, 2024 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Josh Beal - Director of IR
Josh Rohleder - Manager of Investor Communications
John May - Chief Executive Officer
Luke Gakstatter - SVP Ag and Turf Sales & Marketing for Americas & Australia
Josh Jepsen - CFO

Conference Call Participants

Jamie Cook - Truist Securities
Angel Castillo - Morgan Stanley
Tami Zakaria - JPMorgan
Jerry Revich - Goldman Sachs
David Raso - Evercore ISI
Kristen Owen - Oppenheimer
Joel Jackson - BMO Capital Markets
Mig Dobre - Baird
Chad Dillard - Bernstein

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to Deere & Company Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. Your lines have been placed on listen-only mode, until the question-and-answer session of today’s conference.

I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Josh Beal, Director of Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin.

Josh Beal

Hello. Welcome, and thank you for joining us on today's call. Joining me on the call today are John May, Chief Executive Officer; Josh Jepsen, Chief Financial Officer; Luke Gakstatter, Senior Vice President, Ag and Turf Sales and Marketing for Americas and Australia; and Josh Rohleder, Manager of Investor Communications.

Today, we'll take a closer look at Deere's third quarter earnings, then spend some time talking about our markets and our current outlook for fiscal 2024. After that, we'll respond to your questions. Please note that slides are available to complement the call this morning. They can be accessed on our website at johndeere.com/earnings.

First, a reminder, this call is broadcast live on the Internet and recorded for future transmission and use by Deere & Company. Any other use, recording or transmission of any portion of this copyrighted broadcast without the expressed written consent of Deere is strictly prohibited. Participants in the call, including the Q&A session, agree that their likeness and remarks in all media may be stored and used as part of the earnings call.

This call includes forward-looking statements concerning the Company's plans and projections for the future that are subject to uncertainties, risks, changes in circumstances and other factors that are difficult to predict. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially is contained in the Company's most recent Form 8-K, risk factors in the annual Form 10-K as updated by reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

This call also may include financial measures that are not in conformance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, GAAP. Additional information concerning these measures, including reconciliations to comparable GAAP measures, is included in the release and posted on our website at johndeere.com/earnings under Quarterly Earnings and Events.