Rockwell Automation
About: With roots tracing back to the early 1900s, Rockwell Automation is the successor to Rockwell International, which spun off its avionics segment in 2001. It is a pure-play industrial automation company that operates through three segments. Its largest segment by revenue, intelligent devices, sells factory floor-level devices such as motors, drives, sensors, relays, and actuators. Its software and control segment sells visualization, simulation, and human-machine interface software and control products such as programmable controllers, computers, and operator terminals. Its smallest segment, lifecycle services, offers digital consulting, engineered-to-order services, and other outsourced services such as remote monitoring, cybersecurity, and asset and plant maintenance and optimization.
Employees: 27,000
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
100% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 4 [Q3] → 8 (+4) [Q4]
62% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 172 | Existing positions closed: 106
19% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $171M | Put options by funds: $143M
15% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $24.2B [Q3] → $27.9B (+$3.66B) [Q4]
10% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 407 | Existing positions reduced: 369
3% more funds holding
Funds holding: 1,142 [Q3] → 1,180 (+38) [Q4]
2.55% more ownership
Funds ownership: 80.25% [Q3] → 82.79% (+2.55%) [Q4]
Research analyst outlook
10 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
10 analyst ratings
Barclays Julian Mitchell 38% 1-year accuracy 45 / 120 met price target | 11%upside $285 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 10 Mar 2025 |
Loop Capital Chris Dankert 31% 1-year accuracy 5 / 16 met price target | 9%upside $280 | Hold Maintained | 25 Feb 2025 |
Morgan Stanley Joshua Pokrzywinski 0% 1-year accuracy 0 / 2 met price target | 35%upside $345 | Overweight Maintained | 12 Feb 2025 |
Goldman Sachs Joe Ritchie 50% 1-year accuracy 14 / 28 met price target | 13%upside $290 | Sell Maintained | 11 Feb 2025 |
Oppenheimer Noah Kaye 49% 1-year accuracy 28 / 57 met price target | 25%upside $320 | Outperform Maintained | 11 Feb 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 10 articles about ROK published over the past 30 days
