Rockwell Automation Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:ROK)

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

Rockwell Automation declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 5th. Investors of record on Monday, August 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.97 per share on Tuesday, September 10th. This represents a $3.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.26%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 9th. View Rockwell Automation's Dividend History.

Rockwell Automation announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase program on Thursday, September 6th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 4.5% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 25th. The industrial products company reported $2.40 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.29 by $0.11. The industrial products company earned $1.67 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.72 billion. Rockwell Automation had a return on equity of 78.71% and a net margin of 15.44%. The business's revenue was down 2.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $2.16 EPS. View Rockwell Automation's Earnings History.

Rockwell Automation is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 6th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Rockwell Automation.

Rockwell Automation issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $8.50-8.70 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $8.82. The company issued revenue guidance of down 0.5% yr/yr to ~$6.67 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.79 billion.

16 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Rockwell Automation's stock. Their forecasts range from $142.00 to $214.00. On average, they expect Rockwell Automation's share price to reach $170.92 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Rockwell Automation.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Rockwell Automation in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Rockwell Automation.

News articles about ROK stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded 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 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Rockwell Automation.

Rockwell Automation saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 2,730,000 shares, an increase of 11.4% from the August 30th total of 2,450,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,000,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.7 days. Approximately 2.4% of the company's shares are sold short. View Rockwell Automation's Current Options Chain.

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Rockwell Automation's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Cambiar Investors LLC (0.23%), Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A. (0.22%), PGGM Investments (0.12%), Stephens Investment Management Group LLC (0.11%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.11%) and DNB Asset Management AS (0.08%). Company insiders that own Rockwell Automation stock include Blake D Moret, David M Dorgan, Elik I Fooks, Frank C Kulaszewicz, John M Miller, John P Mcdermott, Keith D Nosbusch, Lawrence D Kingsley, Michael Laszkiewicz, Patrick P Goris, Robert B Murphy, Steven W Etzel, Sujeet Chand, Susan Schmitt and Theodore D Crandall. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Rockwell Automation.

ROK stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Cambiar Investors LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Gateway Investment Advisers LLC and First Midwest Bank Trust Division. Company insiders that have sold Rockwell Automation company stock in the last year include Blake D Moret, Elik I Fooks, Frank C Kulaszewicz, John M Miller, Keith D Nosbusch, Michael Laszkiewicz, 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., PGGM Investments, Sicart Associates LLC, Stephens Investment Management Group LLC, Rockland Trust Co., Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, DNB Asset Management AS and Advisor Partners LLC. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ROK stock can currently be purchased for approximately $171.62.

Rockwell Automation has a market capitalization of $20.08 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.View Additional Information About Rockwell Automation.

The official website for Rockwell Automation is http://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]