ORGANIZATION AND CONSOLIDATION

6 Months Ended

Apr. 28, 2024

ORGANIZATION AND CONSOLIDATION

ORGANIZATION AND CONSOLIDATION

(1) ORGANIZATION AND CONSOLIDATION

References to John Deere Capital Corporation (Capital Corporation), “the Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our” include our consolidated subsidiaries. John Deere Financial Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deere & Company, owns all of the outstanding common stock of Capital Corporation. We provide and administer financing for retail purchases of new equipment manufactured by Deere & Company’s production and precision agriculture operations, small agriculture and turf operations, and construction and forestry operations and used equipment taken in trade for this equipment. References to “agriculture and turf” include both production and precision agriculture and small agriculture and turf. Deere & Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries are collectively called “John Deere.”

We offer the following financing solutions:

● Retail notes – we purchase retail installment sales and loan contracts from John Deere, which are generally acquired through independent John Deere retail dealers, and finance a limited amount of non-John Deere retail notes;

● Revolving charge accounts – we finance and service revolving charge accounts, in most cases acquired from and offered through merchants and dealers in the agriculture and turf and construction and forestry markets;

● Wholesale receivables – we provide wholesale financing to dealers of John Deere agriculture and turf equipment and construction and forestry equipment, primarily to finance inventories of equipment for those dealers; and

● Financing and operating leases – we lease John Deere equipment and a limited amount of non-John Deere equipment to retail customers.

Retail notes, revolving charge accounts, and financing leases are collectively called “Customer Receivables.” Customer Receivables and wholesale receivables are collectively called “Receivables.” Receivables and equipment on operating leases are collectively called “Receivables and Leases.” We secure our Receivables, other than certain revolving charge accounts, by retaining as collateral security in the goods associated with those Receivables or with the use of other collateral.

We use a 52/53 week fiscal year with quarters ending on the last Sunday in the reporting period. The second quarter ends for fiscal years 2024 and 2023 were April 28, 2024 and April 30, 2023, respectively. Both second quarters contained 13 weeks, while both year-to-date periods contained 26 weeks. Unless otherwise stated, references to particular years, quarters, or months refer to our fiscal years generally ending in October and the associated periods in those fiscal years.

We are the primary beneficiary of and consolidate certain variable interest entities that are special purpose entities (SPEs) related to the securitization of receivables. See Note 5 for more information on these SPEs.

Presentation of Amounts

All amounts are presented in millions of dollars, unless otherwise specified.