As part of its overall funding strategy, CNH Capital participates in the asset-backed securitization (“ABS”) markets. CNH Capital periodically transfers retail notes and wholesale receivables originated from end-use customers and dealers to special purpose entities, in exchange for cash proceeds from asset-backed securities issued by these special purpose entities. Investors in these asset-backed securities in turn receive payments on their securities based on the cash flows from the transferred receivables. CNH Capital continues to service the transferred receivables and maintains a cash reserve account, which provides security to investors in the event that cash collections from the receivables are not sufficient to permit principal and interest payments to the holders of the securities. These special purpose entities and the investors in the asset-backed securities have no recourse, beyond the applicable cash reserve account, for failure of any end-use customers or dealers to make payments on the transferred receivables when due.
In addition to portfolio quality and funding costs, CNH Capital’s long-term profitability is also dependent on service levels and operational effectiveness. CNH Capital performs billing and collection services, customer support, repossession and remarketing functions, reporting and data management operations and marketing activities.
As of December 31, 2023, CNH Capital had total assets of $16.0 billion and total stockholder’s equity of $1.6 billion. For the year ended December 31, 2023, CNH Capital had total revenues of $1.1 billion and net income of $215.1 million. As of December 31, 2023, CNH Capital had third-party debt of $13.4 billion, approximately 64% of which represented secured debt as of such date.
Relationship with CNH
CNH organizes its operations into three operating segments: Agriculture, Construction and Financial Services. Collectively, these three segments design, produce, market, sell and finance agricultural and construction equipment. CNH has industrial and financial services companies located in 32 countries and a commercial presence in approximately 164 countries around the world.
CNH’s Agricultural segment designs, manufactures and distributes a full line of farm machinery and implements, including two-wheel and four-wheel drive tractors, crawler tractors, combines, grape and sugar cane harvesters, hay and forage equipment, planting and seeding equipment, soil preparation and cultivation implements, and material handling equipment. CNH is also a leading provider of technology dedicated to Precision Agriculture. Agricultural equipment is sold in North America under the New Holland Agriculture and Case IH brands. Regionally-focused brands include: STEYR for tractors; Flexi-Coil specializing in tillage and seeding systems; and Miller manufacturing application equipment. The Raven brand supports Precision Agriculture, digital technology and the development of autonomous systems. Hemisphere, acquired in 2023, provides high-performance satellite positioning technology for the agriculture and construction industries.
CNH’s Construction segment designs, manufactures and distributes a full line of construction equipment including excavators, crawler dozers, graders, wheel loaders, backhoe loaders, skid steer loaders and compact track loaders along with a wide variety of attachments. Construction equipment is sold in North America under the CASE Construction Equipment and New Holland Construction brands.
As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, CNH had total assets of $46.4 billion and $39.4 billion, respectively, and total equity of $8.2 billion and $6.9 billion, respectively.
For the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, CNH had total revenues of $24.7 billion and $23.6 billion, respectively, and net income attributable to CNH Industrial N.V. of $2.4 billion and $2.0 billion, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2023, CNH’s net sales of agricultural equipment and net sales of construction equipment generated in North America (United States, Canada and Mexico) were $7.2 billion and $2.3 billion, respectively, representing increases of 6% and 31% from the same period in 2022, respectively.
CNH Capital is a key financing source for CNH North America’s end-use customers and dealers. The Company offers financing to customers with advantageous terms that are subsidized by CNH North America, including low-rate, interest-free or interest-only periods and other sales incentive programs.