ROK (Rockwell Automation) Risk Assessment

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ROK Rockwell Automation Inc ROK
78 GF Score
Price $460.95
GF Value $313.78
Valuation Significantly Overvalued
! 8 Warning Signs
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What is Rockwell Automation Risk Assessment?

Risk Assessment represents the investment risk of a stock derived from our exclusive method. It suggests how risky the investment opportunity is based on the valuation and the fundamental performance of the stock. It is derived from following key aspects:

1. GuruFocus internally developed valuations of the stock, such as GF valuation.
2. Quality Rank, a business quality indicator developed by GuruFocus.
3. Fundamental performance: Piotroski F-Score, Altman Z-Score, Beneish M-Score, etc.
4. Growth opportunities: 5-year revenue growth rate, 5-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate, etc.

Value investors are always willing to find undervalued stocks. However, not all the undervalued stocks are good deals, we should also be careful of how risky the investment opportunity is. We believe that if the company's financial strength and profitability are strong, and the stock price is within a reasonable range of the GF valuation, or stock has a high return with its price being undervalued, then it might be a good investment opportunity with low risk.

Based on those aspects listed above, GuruFocus believes the risk assessment of Rockwell Automation is: Low Risk: Strong fundamentals, worth long-term holding.

Rockwell Automation  (NYSE:ROK) Risk Assessment Explanation

Based on the four aspects listed above, GuruFocus provides the following 7 evaluations:

All-in-One Screener Examples (1)
Low Risk: Strong fundamentals, worth long-term holding
Moderate Risk: Sensitive, better choose undervalued stock
High Risk: High uncertainty with risk-return tradeoff
High Risk: Good fundamentals, beware of shrinking business
High Risk: Sensitive to economic or industry trends
High Risk: High uncertainty
No Data: Cannot be evaluated

(1) These are some simple examples. You can access our Risk Assessment filter under All-in-One Screener’s Fundamental tab and set your own criteria.

Rockwell Automation Risk Assessment Related Terms

ROK vs AME, IR, DOV: Risk Assessment Comparison

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Rockwell Automation's Risk Assessment, along with its competitors' market caps and Risk Assessment data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Rockwell Automation Risk Assessment vs Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Rockwell Automation's Risk Assessment distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Rockwell Automation's Risk Assessment falls into.


ROK
78GF Score
Rockwell Automation Inc ROK
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Is Rockwell Automation (ROK) Overvalued in 2026?

Based on GuruFocus' analysis, Rockwell Automation stock appears to be overvalued. The current stock price of $460.95 is trading 46.9% above its estimated GF Value™ of $313.78. GuruFocus considers Rockwell Automation to be Significantly Overvalued.

Key valuation signals for ROK:

  • Risk Assessment:
  • GF Value™: $313.78 vs. price of $460.95 (46.9% above fair value)
  • GF Score™: 78/100 with 8 warning signs

No single metric tells the full story. See the ROK stock analysis page for a complete view including 30-year financials, guru trades, and insider activity.

Rockwell Automation Business Description

Address 1201 South Second Street, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 53204
With roots tracing back to the early 1900s, Rockwell Automation is the successor to Rockwell International, which spun off its avionics segment in 2001. It is a pure-play industrial automation company that operates through three segments. Its largest segment by revenue, intelligent devices, sells factory floor-level devices such as motors, drives, sensors, relays, and actuators. Its software and control segment sells visualization, simulation, and human-machine interface software and control products such as programmable controllers, computers, and operator terminals. Its smallest segment, lifecycle services, offers digital consulting, engineered-to-order services, and other outsourced services such as remote monitoring, cybersecurity, and asset and plant maintenance and optimization.
78GF Score

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$460.95
Price
$313.78
GF Value