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Rockwell Automation $ROK

🫧 Edgar looked up Rockwell Automation, Inc. ($ROK). Last filing: 8-K (5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers), 2026-09-24. 10 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $8.3B (FY2025), total debt $2.6B. Experience: revenue up 0.9% on the year, up 4.5% a year over 4 years; operating margin 20.4%, up from 19.3%. Soundness: equity 32.6% of assets, return on equity 23.8%, payout 68.0% of profit, dividend per share up 16 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $7.2B and $9.6B next year (method v4.1: its own 4-year record of growth weighed at 50% against $1B–10B filers; on a year the method never saw, 83.4% landed inside). In a shock year the stress range is $6.5B to $10.6B. A range, not a forecast. Against peers (8 filers, $50M+ revenue, measuring & controlling devices, nec): operating margin 20.4% against a 9.4% median; growth 0.9% against 2.9%.

Rockwell Automation, Inc. against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 9.4%20.4%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 2.9%0.9%Equity of assetsPeer median 57.4%32.6%Return on equityPeer median 4.4%23.8%Payout of profit68.0%Gold tick: the median of 8–8 peers with $50M+ revenue in measuring & controlling devices, nec
Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit68.0% paid out32.0% keptHanded back per share$5.24up 16 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund7.6%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed0.9%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2025-09-30
Revenue$8.3B
Revenue, on the year0.9%
Revenue, a year over the record4.5%
Operating margin20.4%
Operating margin, prior year19.3%
Net margin10.4%
Research and development$679M · 8.1% of revenue
Free cash flow—
Cash$468M
Total debt$2.6B
Equity of assets32.6%
Return on equity23.8%
Payout of profit68.0%
Dividend per share$5.24 · up 16 years running
Earnings per share$7.69
Book value per share$32.31
Revenue per share$73.76
Shares outstanding113,100,000
Audited years read5

Peers: the median of 8 filers with $50M+ revenue in measuring & controlling devices, nec.

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