About Rockwell Automation, Inc.
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (ROK) is a Healthcare company in the Measuring & Controlling Devices, NEC industry with a market capitalisation of $48.2B. The stock trades at 40.01x trailing earnings and yields 1.29%.
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Industry
- Measuring & Controlling Devices, NEC
- Market cap
- $48.2B
- P/E ratio
- 40.01
- Forward P/E
- 29.14
- EPS (TTM)
- $10.82
- Revenue (TTM)
- $9B
- Free cash flow
- $1.3B
- Profit margin
- 13.4%
- Dividend yield
- 1.29%
- Beta
- 1.51
- Shares outstanding
- 111.3M
Financial health: Strong8.2/10
7 strengths, 0 concerns. No red flags against these benchmarks.
- Debt to equity: 0.72 (Watch, benchmark < 0.5) — Debt of 0.72x equity is moderate against the 0.5x benchmark. It has deteriorated over the last 4 years.
- Net debt vs cash flow: 1.6y (Strong, benchmark < 4 years) — Net debt of $2.1B is 1.6x annual free cash flow — about 2 years of cash flow to repay.
- Current ratio: 1.14 (Watch, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover 1.14x short-term liabilities, against Graham's 1.5x floor. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: 30.6% (Strong, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 30.6% on shareholder equity, comfortably past the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 49.1% (Strong, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 49.1% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, comfortably past the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 13.4% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 13.4% of revenue into profit, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $1.4B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $1.4B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: 7.9% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 7.9% year on year, short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: 40.4% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed 40.4% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- PEG ratio: 1.83 (Watch, benchmark < 1) — At 1.83, the price looks fair relative to expected growth — Lynch treated 1.0 as fair value.
- Payout ratio: 51.0% (Strong, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 51.0% of earnings as dividends, leaving room to keep paying.