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Rockwell Automation Inc (ROK) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Rockwell Automation supplies industrial automation and digital-transformation equipment across three segments: Intelligent Devices, Software & Control, and Lifecycle Services. It makes drives, motion, safety and sensing hardware, control and visualisation software, digital-twin and simulation tools, and offers consulting, cybersecurity and repair services.

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The desk on ROK

What this diary said about Rockwell Automation Inc, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we said

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for ROK, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-11-03

DayWeekMonth3 months
ROK+1.4%+1.6%−1.9%−0.8%
Robotics & Automation−0.6%−2.1%−11.8%—
Rubin Build-Out 1000.0%−6.5%−20.9%—

Against the index: 8.1 pts ahead on the week, 19.0 pts ahead on the month; against its Robotics & Automation sleeve 9.9 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 3 pieces · newest: Midday 10, “Palantir +27%, and the market buys back the exact corner it sold” (2026-08-04)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where ROK appears in the diary — 3 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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Long reads

Dailies

  • Palantir +27%, and the market buys back the exact corner it soldMidday 10 · 4 Aug 2026ROK is down about 6.7% at 449 after adjusted earnings of $3.49 against $3.38 expected, revenue of $2.31bn up 8% against $2.24bn, and a raised full year on both lines — EPS to $13.00–13.30 and sales to $8.97–9.13bn.
  • Rockwell Automation: A Physical AI Winner Breaking OutDaily Pulse · 12 Jun 2026Rockwell Automation (ROK) is starting to look like one of the cleaner second-wave AI stocks — not because it makes GPUs or runs cloud models, but because it sits in the physical AI layer: factories, warehouses, data centers, semiconductor…
Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 45/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-03
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 76th percentile of the window, -20.6% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-02
  • Sector × region Industrials in US: +2.0% week · +0.7% month · −7.8% quarter · −0.8% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLI.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-11-03
  • Sovereign pressure Index -1.63 · down 2.22 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-02
How it trades on rate days beta 0.45 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How ROK has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.45 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Rockwell Automation Inc moved 0.45% on average · correlation 0.14 · higher than 39% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months −0.33 less rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.60% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.01% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Rubin Build-Out 100 · Robotics & Automation · 2 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Rubin Build-Out 100 · Robotics & Automation

Industrial robots and motion control — the makers of physical AI, where automation meets the factory floor.

Compared against ROK on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Rockwell Automation Inc

ROK in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Rockwell Automation supplies industrial automation and digital-transformation equipment across three segments: Intelligent Devices, Software & Control, and Lifecycle Services. It makes drives, motion, safety and sensing hardware, control and visualisation software, digital-twin and simulation tools, and offers consulting, cybersecurity and repair services. Products reach customers through distributors and a direct sales force, serving discrete markets such as automotive, semiconductor and warehouse automation, hybrid markets like food and life sciences, and process markets including energy and mining. It is based in Milwaukee.
Where it sits in the stack
Rockwell Automation carries no seat in our index; the diary places it in the Industrials sleeve of the US universe, alongside other scored industrial names. Its factory-floor software and digital-twin tools connect physical production data to automation systems, which is why the diary follows it as a bridge between plant equipment and the software layer above it.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group compares it with other scored US industrials — Nordson, Cintas, Applied Industrial Technologies, Verisk Analytics and Allegheny Technologies among them — grouped simply by sector and country rather than by product overlap; the market itself more often names Siemens as its closest automation rival.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It carries a Closelooknet score, strongest on quality and weakest on valuation. The diary has quoted it in a dossier on industrial and physical-AI dependencies for its factory-twin software, in a Midday 10 note on an earnings reaction, and in a Daily Pulse piece describing it as a name positioned in the physical-AI layer of factories and data centres. It holds no seat in our index.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether demand from semiconductor and warehouse-automation customers continues to firm after the raised full-year guidance, and whether the weak valuation score narrows as results are absorbed.

Rockwell Automation Inc (ROK) trades on US exchanges, classified under Industrials, and sits in Layer 8 of the build-out stack. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 56/100 composite (momentum 63, quality 72, valuation 28) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 4 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Morgan Stanley, 2026-10-16

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for ROK from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Morgan Stanley — target 520 from 545 Target cut to $520 from $545 (+20.3% to spot) 2026-10-16
  • Price target Wells Fargo — target 426 Target set to $426 (-1.6% to spot) 2026-09-24
  • Price target Morgan Stanley — target 545 from 525 Target raised to $545 from $525 (+29.6% to spot) 2026-09-02

4 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 4 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.24%, quarterly · buybacks 425 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What ROK pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 5.52 USD per share · a 1.24% yield on the 2026-11-03 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-11-03
  • Change on the year +5.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 5.24 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.38 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-17
  • By calendar year 2023: 1.25 USD (partial) · 2024: 5.06 USD · 2025: 5.31 USD · 2026: 4.14 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-10
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 591 m USD 43% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 425 m USD 0.9% of today's market value
  • Share count −1.2% in FY2025 85 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 1.02 bn USD · 75% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-04

Quick answers

What is Rockwell Automation Inc (ROK)?

Rockwell Automation Inc trades as ROK on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-04.

Is ROK in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Rockwell Automation Inc is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-11-04.

What is Rockwell Automation Inc's Closelooknet composite score?

56 out of 100, with momentum 63, quality 72 and valuation 28 sub-scores, as of 2026-11-04. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does ROK trade against its moving averages?

Rockwell Automation Inc trades 4.9% above its 50-day and 6.1% above its 200-day moving average (4.3% above its 20-day). As of 2026-11-03 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is ROK doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Rockwell Automation Inc is −1.9% against −20.9% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 19.0 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-11-03. Its Robotics & Automation sleeve is −11.8% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Rockwell Automation Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Rubin Build-Out 100 · Robotics & Automation), Rockwell Automation Inc (ROK) sits 9.0% below its 52-week high, 4.9% above its 50-day average; ABB Ltd (ABBN.SW) is 20.0% below, Yaskawa Electric (6506.T) is 50.5% below, as of 2026-11-03. Put any of them next to ROK in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Rockwell Automation Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Rockwell Automation Inc had a beta of 0.45 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 39% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.60% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-03; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Rockwell Automation Inc?

Rockwell Automation Inc appears in 3 Closelooknet pieces as of 2026-11-04, most recently Midday 10: Palantir +27%, and the market buys back the exact corner it sold (2026-08-04); Daily Pulse: Rockwell Automation: A Physical AI Winner Breaking Out (2026-06-12); Dossier: Industrial & Physical AI: Global Dependencies 2026–2030 (2026-03-06). What Closelooknet said most recently: ROK is down about 6.7% at 449 after adjusted earnings of $3.49 against $3.38 expected, revenue of $2.31bn up 8% against $2.24bn, and a raised full year on both lines — EPS to $13.00–13.30 and sales to $8.97–9.13bn. (Midday 10, 2026-08-04). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Rockwell Automation Inc do?

Rockwell Automation supplies industrial automation and digital-transformation equipment across three segments: Intelligent Devices, Software & Control, and Lifecycle Services. It makes drives, motion, safety and sensing hardware, control and visualisation software, digital-twin and simulation tools, and offers consulting, cybersecurity and repair services. Products reach customers through distributors and a direct sales force, serving discrete markets such as automotive, semiconductor and warehouse automation, hybrid markets like food and life sciences, and process markets including energy and mining. Closelooknet's peer group compares it with other scored US industrials — Nordson, Cintas, Applied Industrial Technologies, Verisk Analytics and Allegheny Technologies among them — grouped simply by sector and country rather than by product overlap; the market itself more often names Siemens as its closest automation rival. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Where does Rockwell Automation Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Rockwell Automation carries no seat in our index; the diary places it in the Industrials sleeve of the US universe, alongside other scored industrial names. Its factory-floor software and digital-twin tools connect physical production data to automation systems, which is why the diary follows it as a bridge between plant equipment and the software layer above it. It carries a Closelooknet score, strongest on quality and weakest on valuation. The diary has quoted it in a dossier on industrial and physical-AI dependencies for its factory-twin software, in a Midday 10 note on an earnings reaction, and in a Daily Pulse piece describing it as a name positioned in the physical-AI layer of factories and data centres. It holds no seat in our index. (Company snapshot of 2026-09-17.)

Does Rockwell Automation Inc pay a dividend?

Rockwell Automation Inc has paid 5.52 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.24% on the 2026-11-03 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.38 USD on 2026-08-17. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 591 m USD in dividends and bought back 425 m USD of its own shares, 75% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 1.2% over the fiscal year. As of 2026-11-03; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Rockwell Automation Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on Rockwell Automation Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Morgan Stanley on 2026-10-16 (target 520 from 545). 4 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 4 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

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