NYSE:ROK - Rockwell Automation Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Rockwell Automation trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ROK."

Rockwell Automation declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 6th. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 19th will be given a dividend of $0.97 per share on Monday, March 11th. This represents a $3.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.18%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 15th. View Rockwell Automation's Dividend History.

Rockwell Automation announced that its board has approved a share repurchase program on Thursday, September 6th 2018, which allows the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase up to 4.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 29th. The industrial products company reported $2.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.99 by $0.22. The industrial products company had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.63 billion. Rockwell Automation had a net margin of 12.68% and a return on equity of 66.47%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 3.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.96 EPS. View Rockwell Automation's Earnings History.

Rockwell Automation is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Rockwell Automation.

Rockwell Automation issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, January, 29th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $8.85-9.25 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $8.96. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.81-7.01 billion (+2.2-5.2% previously saw +2.7-5, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.93 billion.

17 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Rockwell Automation's stock. Their forecasts range from $145.00 to $205.00. On average, they anticipate Rockwell Automation's share price to reach $172.9333 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Rockwell Automation.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Rockwell Automation in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Rockwell Automation.

News stories about ROK stock have been trending somewhat positive on Thursday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Rockwell Automation earned a media sentiment score of 0.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.

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Rockwell Automation's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.27%), Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (4.28%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.42%), Northern Trust Corp (1.21%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.04%) and Swedbank (0.82%). Company insiders that own Rockwell Automation stock include Betty C Alewine, Blake D Moret, David M Dorgan, Elik I Fooks, Frank C Kulaszewicz, John M Miller, John P Mcdermott, Keith D Nosbusch, Kenneth M Champa, Lawrence D Kingsley, Patrick P Goris, Robert B Murphy, Steven W Etzel, Sujeet Chand, Susan Schmitt, Theodore D Crandall and William T Jr/Wi Mccormick. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Rockwell Automation.

ROK stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Congress Asset Management Co. MA, Eaton Vance Management, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Voloridge Investment Management LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., State of Tennessee Treasury Department and Natixis Advisors L.P.. Company insiders that have sold Rockwell Automation company stock in the last year include Blake D Moret, Elik I Fooks, Frank C Kulaszewicz, John P Mcdermott, Keith D Nosbusch, Patrick P Goris, Steven W Etzel, Sujeet Chand, Susan Schmitt and Theodore D Crandall. View Insider Buying and Selling for Rockwell Automation.

ROK stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, BlackRock Inc., Two Sigma Advisers LP, Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Ardevora Asset Management LLP, Squarepoint Ops LLC, Bank of Montreal Can and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Rockwell Automation.

Shares of ROK can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ROK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $177.96.

Rockwell Automation has a market capitalization of $21.27 billion and generates $6.67 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $535.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $8.11 on an earnings per share basis. Rockwell Automation employs 23,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Rockwell Automation is http://www.rockwellautomation.com.

Rockwell Automation's mailing address is 1201 SOUTH 2ND STREET, MILWAUKEE WI, 53204. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 414-382-2000 or via email at [email protected]