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DE vs PLUG

Side-by-side comparison of Deere & Company (DE) and Plug Power Inc. (PLUG): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • DE operates in Industrials, while PLUG operates in Energy - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • DE is the larger of the two at $155.92B, about 36.0x PLUG ($4.34B).
  • Over the past year, DE is up 20.0% and PLUG is up 269.2% - PLUG leads by 249.3 points.
  • PLUG has been more active in the news (10 items in the past 4 weeks vs 4 for DE).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceDE+19.96%PLUG+269.25%
2025-05-02+0.00%2026-05-01
MetricDEPLUG
Company
Deere & Company
Plug Power Inc.
Price
$577.57-2.14%
$3.10-0.64%
Market cap
$155.92B
$4.34B
1M return
+1.36%
+38.31%
1Y return
+19.96%
+269.25%
Industry
Industrial Machinery/Components
Industrial Machinery/Components
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
1999
News (4w)
4
10
Recent ratings
25
25
DE

Deere & Company

Deere & Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes various equipment worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Agriculture and Turf, Construction and Forestry, and Financial Services. The Agriculture and Turf segment provides various agriculture and turf equipment, and related service parts, including large, medium, and utility tractors; tractor loaders; combines, cotton pickers, cotton strippers, and sugarcane harvesters; harvesting front-end equipment; sugarcane loaders and pull-behind scrapers; tillage, seeding, and application equipment comprising sprayers, nutrient management, and soil preparation machinery; self-propelled forage harvesters and attachments, balers, and mowers; riding lawn equipment, golf course equipment, utility vehicles, and commercial mowing equipment along with associated implements; integrated agricultural solutions and precision technologies; and other outdoor power products. The Construction and Forestry segment offers a range of machines and service parts used in construction, earthmoving, road building, material handling, and timber harvesting, including backhoe loaders; crawler dozers and loaders; four-wheel-drive loaders; excavators; motor graders; articulated dump trucks; landscape loaders; skid-steer loaders; milling machines; recyclers; slipform pavers; surface miners; asphalt pavers; compactors; tandem and static rollers; mobile crushers and screens; mobile and stationary asphalt plants; log skidders; feller bunchers; log loaders; log forwarders; and log harvesters and related logging attachments. The Financial Services segment finances sales and leases agriculture and turf, and construction and forestry equipment. It also offers wholesale financing to dealers of the foregoing equipment; and extended equipment warranties, as well as finances retail revolving charge accounts. Deere & Company was founded in 1837 and is headquartered in Moline, Illinois.

PLUG

Plug Power Inc.

Plug Power Inc. provides hydrogen fuel cell turnkey solutions for the electric mobility and stationary power markets in North America and Europe. It focuses on proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell and fuel processing technologies, and fuel cell/battery hybrid technologies, as well as related hydrogen and green hydrogen generation, storage, and dispensing infrastructure. The company offers GenDrive, a liquid hydrogen fueled PEM fuel cell system that provides power to material handling electric vehicles; GenFuel, a hydrogen fueling delivery, generation, storage, and dispensing system; GenCare, an ongoing internet of things-based maintenance and service program for GenDrive and GenSure fuel cells, GenFuel hydrogen storage and dispensing products, and ProGen engines; and GenSure, a stationary fuel cell solution that offes modular PEM fuel cell power to support the backup and grid-support power requirements of the telecommunications, transportation, and utility sectors. It also provides GenKey, an integrated turn-key solution for transitioning to fuel cell power; ProGen, a fuel cell stack and engine technology used in mobility and stationary fuel cell systems, and as engines in electric delivery vans; and GenFuel Electrolyzer, an hydrogen generator optimized for clean hydrogen production. The company offers its products to retail-distribution and manufacturing businesses through direct product sales force, original equipment manufacturers, and dealer networks. Plug Power Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Latham, New York.