On September 2, Deere rose 3.12% in regular trading, trading at approximately $695.80/share, with turnover of $923 million. The move came as the agricultural equipment sector extended a broad rally driven by a wave of institutional upgrades.

On the news front, Baird simultaneously upgraded multiple agricultural equipment names including CNH Industrial and AGCO to outperform, citing expectations that stabilizing commodity prices will improve farmer income outlooks and reactivate equipment replacement demand. This follows Baird's earlier upgrade of Deere itself from neutral to outperform, with a price target raised sharply to $800 from $640 — well above the consensus target of $680.38 at the time. The upgrade was underpinned by Deere's strong fiscal Q3 results, in which EPS of $5.10 beat estimates by $0.40 and net sales of $12.61 billion exceeded consensus by nearly $1.9 billion.

Within the Agricultural and Farm Machinery sector, the rally was broad-based: CNH Industrial surged 10.53%, Alamo Group gained 5.51%, Lindsay rose 5.07%, AGCO advanced 5.0%, and Toro added 1.97%, reflecting growing institutional conviction that the agricultural equipment cycle may be bottoming ahead of a potential recovery.

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