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, June 6th. Shareholders of record on Monday, August 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.92 per share on Monday, September 10th. This represents a $3.68 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.12%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 10th. View Rockwell Automation's Dividend History.

Rockwell Automation declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, January 24th 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 repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) released its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 25th. The industrial products company reported $2.16 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.04 by $0.12. The industrial products company had revenue of $1.70 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.70 billion. Rockwell Automation had a net margin of 5.97% and a return on equity of 48.24%. Rockwell Automation's revenue for the quarter was up 6.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.76 earnings per share. View Rockwell Automation's Earnings History.

Rockwell Automation is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November, 14th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Rockwell Automation.

Rockwell Automation issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 25th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $7.90-8.10 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $7.88. The company issued revenue guidance of approx $6.70 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.70 billion.

14 analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Rockwell Automation's shares. Their predictions range from $156.00 to $210.00. On average, they anticipate Rockwell Automation's share price to reach $185.75 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Rockwell Automation.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Rockwell Automation in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Rockwell Automation.

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Media headlines about ROK stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Rockwell Automation earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.20 on Accern's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the industrial products company an impact score of 47.25 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View Recent Headlines for Rockwell Automation.

Rockwell Automation's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (7.57%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.11%), Bank of America Corp DE (0.99%), Swedbank (0.89%), Schroder Investment Management Group (0.84%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.76%). Company insiders that own Rockwell Automation stock include Betty C Alewine, Blake D Moret, David M Dorgan, Douglas M Hagerman, 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 BlackRock Inc., Putnam Investments LLC, Korea Investment CORP, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Janus Henderson Group PLC, OppenheimerFunds Inc., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V.. Company insiders that have sold Rockwell Automation company stock in the last year include Blake D Moret, David M Dorgan, Elik I Fooks, Frank C Kulaszewicz, John M Miller, John P Mcdermott, Keith D Nosbusch, Patrick P Goris, Robert B Murphy, Steven W Etzel, Sujeet Chand 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 Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Cambiar Investors LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, King Luther Capital Management Corp, Investec Asset Management LTD, Nomura Holdings Inc. and Morgan Stanley. 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 $173.63.

Rockwell Automation has a market capitalization of $21.34 billion and generates $6.31 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $825.70 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.76 on an earnings per share basis. Rockwell Automation employs 22,000 workers across the globe.

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]