Should You Buy Rockwell Automation Inc (NYSE:ROK) Based On These Aspects?

I’ve been keeping an eye on Rockwell Automation Inc (NYSE:ROK) because I’m attracted to its fundamentals. Looking at the company as a whole, as a potential stock investment, I believe ROK has a lot to offer. Basically, it is a financially-healthy company with a an impressive history of dividend payments and an optimistic growth outlook. Below, I’ve touched on some key aspects you should know on a high level. If you’re interested in understanding beyond my high-level commentary, take a look at the report on Rockwell Automation here.

Reasonable growth potential with adequate balance sheet and pays a dividend

ROK is financially robust, with ample cash on hand and short-term investments to meet upcoming liabilities. This suggests prudent control over cash and cost by management, which is an important determinant of the company’s health. ROK’s has produced operating cash levels of 0.66x total debt over the past year, which implies that ROK’s management has put its borrowings into good use by generating enough cash to cover a sufficient portion of borrowings.

NYSE:ROK Future Profit June 21st 18

ROK dishes out decent dividend payments over time, beating the low-risk savings rate, which is what investors expect when they take on the risk of investing in the stock market.

NYSE:ROK Historical Dividend Yield June 21st 18

Next Steps:

For Rockwell Automation, I’ve put together three relevant factors you should further research:

1. Historical Performance: What has ROK’s returns been like over the past? Go into more detail in the past track record analysis and take a look at the free visual representations of our analysis for more clarity.

2. Valuation: What is ROK worth today? Is the stock undervalued, even when its growth outlook is factored into its intrinsic value? The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether ROK is currently mispriced by the market.

3. Other Attractive Alternatives : Are there other well-rounded stocks you could be holding instead of ROK? Explore our interactive list of stocks with large potential to get an idea of what else is out there you may be missing!

To help readers see pass the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price sensitive company announcements.

The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned.