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CNH Industrial N.V.

CNH Industrial makes and sells tractors, construction equipment, and the financing that helps farmers and builders buy them.

CNH Industrial is a big machine maker with two main parts: agriculture and construction. The agriculture side is the giant — roughly three-quarters of sales — and it builds tractors and combine harvesters under famous names like Case IH and New Holland. The construction side makes excavators, wheel loaders, and backhoes, mostly under the Case and New Holland banners. On top of that, the company runs a financing arm that lends money to farmers and builders so they can actually afford the machines, which is a quiet but important profit engine.

Think of it as the dealership and the bank rolled into one. A farmer walks in needing a $400,000 combine. CNH sells the machine and often finances it too, so it earns money twice — once on the iron and again on the loan. That financing piece matters more than people expect because it locks in customers and smooths out the brutal boom-and-bust cycles of farm income.

The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom, though its roots stretch back through Fiat's industrial empire in Italy. It trades on the New York Stock Exchange and has been simplifying itself — spinning off its truck and bus business into a separate company called Iveco Group in 2022 so it could focus purely on farming and building. More recently it has pushed hard into precision agriculture, buying tech that helps tractors steer themselves and plant seeds with robot-level accuracy. The business is cyclical: when crop prices are high, farmers buy; when they crash, they wait. That makes CNH's results swing, but its dividend and buybacks return cash to shareholders when times are good.

Saved answer · last researched 11 Oct 2026