ROKRockwell Automation
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: 7 of 9 health tests passed and earnings fully cash-backed (1.0×).
High fundamental quality. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 29% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is ROK?
Rockwell Automation earns 26% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 17 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 23%
Operating margin · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 14% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.03×
Cash conversion · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −1.2%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2023 | 21% |
| FY2024 | 19% |
| FY2025 | 20% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 49%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 23%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 13%
- Free cash flow margin
- 17%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 8.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $8.97B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.50B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.20B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 26%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Customers and suppliers
Who buys from ROK and who it buys from, as the companies report it.
- Two largest distributors20%
Combined share of revenue · FY2025 10-K
None disclosed.
A company has to disclose every customer behind 10% or more of its revenue. Each share comes from the latest annual report of the company that states it and shows on both companies’ pages; ROK’s own figures are from its FY2025 10-K. Smaller customers and suppliers go unreported.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
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