NYSE:ROKRockwell Automation Stock Price, Forecast & News

Rockwell Automation's stock was trading at $159.09 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, ROK stock has increased by 40.6% and is now trading at $223.64.
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20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Rockwell Automation in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Rockwell Automation is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 10th 2020.
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Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July, 28th. The industrial products company reported $1.27 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.13 by $0.14. The industrial products company earned $1.39 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.39 billion. Rockwell Automation had a net margin of 11.85% and a return on equity of 105.45%. The company's revenue was down 16.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $2.40 earnings per share.
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Rockwell Automation announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 3rd. Stockholders of record on Monday, August 17th will be paid a dividend of $1.02 per share on Thursday, September 10th. This represents a $4.08 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.82%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 14th.
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Rockwell Automation declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Thursday, September 6th 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 4.5% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Rockwell Automation issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 28th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $7.40-7.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $7.37. The company issued revenue guidance of down ~5.5% yr/yr to ~$6.37 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.31 billion.

20 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Rockwell Automation's stock. Their forecasts range from $120.00 to $252.00. On average, they expect Rockwell Automation's stock price to reach $202.19 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.6%.
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Press coverage about ROK stock has trended extremely negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Rockwell Automation earned a news sentiment score of -4.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future.
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Rockwell Automation saw a decrease in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,580,000 shares, a decrease of 8.8% from the July 15th total of 2,830,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 959,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.7 days. Currently, 2.2% of the company's stock are sold short.
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Rockwell Automation trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ROK."

Rockwell Automation's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Alecta Pensionsforsakring Omsesidigt (2.52%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (1.19%), Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc. (0.69%), Swiss National Bank (0.40%), Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC (0.37%) and First Trust Advisors LP (0.21%). Company insiders that own Rockwell Automation stock include Blake D Moret, David M Dorgan, Elik I Fooks, Ernest Nicolas, Francis Wlodarczyk, Frank C Kulaszewicz, James Phillip Holloman, John A Genovesi, John M Miller, Keith D Nosbusch, Michael Laszkiewicz, Patrick P Goris, Rebecca W House, Robert B Murphy, Steven W Etzel, Sujeet Chand, Susan Schmitt, Terry L Riesterer and Theodore D Crandall.
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ROK stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alecta Pensionsforsakring Omsesidigt, Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. KS, Heathbridge Capital Management Ltd., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Wafra Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Ardevora Asset Management LLP, and New York State Common Retirement Fund. Company insiders that have sold Rockwell Automation company stock in the last year include Blake D Moret, David M Dorgan, Elik I Fooks, Ernest Nicolas, Francis Wlodarczyk, Frank C Kulaszewicz, James Phillip Holloman, John A Genovesi, Patrick P Goris, Rebecca W House, Robert B Murphy, Steven W Etzel, Sujeet Chand, and Terry L Riesterer.
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ROK stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC, Raymond James & Associates, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Columbus Circle Investors, Cliftonlarsonallen Wealth Advisors LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Meritage Portfolio Management, and Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc..
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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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of ROK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $223.64.

Rockwell Automation has a market capitalization of $25.94 billion and generates $6.69 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $695.80 million in net income (profit) each year or $8.67 on an earnings per share basis. Rockwell Automation employs 23,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Rockwell Automation is www.rockwellautomation.com.

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