Rockwell is the largest pure-play industrial automation vendor in the US — the “pick-and-shovel” on factory reshoring, electrification and AI-driven plant modernization. Five consecutive earnings beats (average surprise ~+12%), an accelerating FY26 guide, a clean balance sheet and an aggressive buyback make the operating story A+. But at $473.79 the stock sits near its 52W high ($475.92) with R/R to TP1 degraded to just 0.45 — well below the 1.5 actionable floor. Fwd P/E 32.6 and PEG 2.06 make it the richest valuation in the cohort, and ~4.5% extension above EMA20 means a buyer here is chasing. Grade downgraded from A to B+: not actionable for new entries at this price. StockAnalysis· jun 2026
Rockwell Automation is the largest US-listed pure-play industrial automation company — the controls, software and services backbone of modern factories. It sells through three segments: Intelligent Devices (drives, motion, safety, sensing), Software & Control (the flagship Logix controllers, FactoryTalk software and the Plex/Fiix cloud suite) and Lifecycle Services (engineering, consulting and the Sensia oilfield JV). The Logix/FactoryTalk install base is the moat: once a plant standardizes on Rockwell's control architecture, switching costs are high and aftermarket software/services revenue compounds for decades. SEC EDGAR· 10-K
The structural tailwinds are exactly the ones the market is paying up for: US reshoring of manufacturing, grid & electrification capex, life-sciences and EV plant buildouts, and now an AI-in-the-plant narrative where Rockwell's data layer feeds analytics and autonomous operations. It is a short-cycle, cyclical business — orders track factory capex and PMI — but the recurring software and services mix is steadily de-cyclicalizing the model. TTM revenue is roughly $8.8B on a reported basis with adjusted segment economics driving the EPS engine. Yahoo Finance· live
| Metric | Value | Signal |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue (TTM) | $8.80B | +9% Q2 organic |
| Net Income (TTM) | $1.09B | Profitable |
| EPS (TTM) | $9.63 | Growing |
| Gross Margin | 48.9% | Strong |
| Operating Margin | 20.7% | Healthy |
| ROE | 27.2% | High-quality |
| ROIC | 16.4% | Above WACC |
| Debt / Equity | 1.15 | Manageable |
| P/E (Trailing) | 49.3x | Rich |
| Fwd P/E | 32.6x | Premium |
| Dividend Yield | 1.17% | Steady payer |
| Analyst Target (avg) | $465 | Buy · range $282–$525 |
| RSI (14) | 55.1 |
| EMA 20 | $4.50 |
| EMA 50 | $435.97 |
| EMA 200 | $390.10 |
| MACD | 0.000 |
| ATR (14) | $13.03 |
Textbook bullish stack: EMA20 ($453) > EMA50 ($436) > EMA200 ($390), price riding above the 20-day. The stock has pushed through its prior 52-week high ($476) after rallying from a $305 low — a clean primary uptrend, not a parabolic blow-off. RSI at 55.1 sits in the healthy zone, leaving room before overbought. Extension above EMA20 is ~4.5%, meaning a buyer at spot is somewhat extended. ATR $13.03 (~2.8%) makes ~1.8x ATR a sensible stop distance. The risk for the chartist is the proximity to ATH: a failed breakout could trigger a quick mean-reversion toward the EMA50 zone. Finviz· jun 2026
A high-quality, cash-generative compounder with no balance-sheet or dilution risk. The risk that does matter is valuation + cyclicality: a rich multiple on a short-cycle, beta-1.56 name means downside is faster and deeper if factory orders soften or the market de-risks.
On business quality, ROK is one of the safest names in the set — durable moat, 27.2% ROE, clean balance sheet, no dilution. What pulls the risk score up to 4/10 is purely price: you are paying a premium multiple for a cyclical, high-beta stock near all-time highs. The drawdown risk is not bankruptcy risk — it is multiple-compression risk on a disappointment. That is a very different (and more recoverable) flavor of risk, but it is real, and it is why the disciplined entry/stop below matters. MarketBeat· jun 2026
Update 20 Jun 2026: ROK has rallied from the $457 published entry to $473.79, near its 52W high of $475.92. From spot, R/R to TP1 is now only 0.45 (was 1.5 at publication) — this trade is no longer actionable for new entries. The original levels are preserved below for reference and for holders already in the position.
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