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    How Investors May Respond To Rockwell Automation (ROK) Cloud-Native MES Push And Saudi Expansion

    Simply Wall St·12/11/2025 17:36:33
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    • In late November and early December 2025, Rockwell Automation announced cloud-native upgrades to its Manufacturing Execution System portfolio and deepened its Saudi presence via a collaboration with alfanar, including a new automation panel manufacturing zone in Riyadh serving critical infrastructure projects like the Saudi Water Authority.
    • These moves highlight Rockwell Automation’s push to embed its technology at the core of digitally enabled industrial operations, linking software, intelligent devices, and localized production to support long-term automation and autonomous operations trends.
    • We’ll now examine how Rockwell Automation’s cloud-native MES enhancements could reshape its investment narrative around growth, margins, and risk.

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    Rockwell Automation Investment Narrative Recap

    To own Rockwell Automation, you need to believe that industrial customers will keep investing in digital, software-rich automation even as CapEx cycles ebb and flow. The cloud-native MES upgrades and the new Saudi manufacturing zone support this thesis, but they do not remove the near term risk that delayed large projects and cautious customer spending could still weigh on orders and recurring, higher margin software and services.

    The most relevant update here is Rockwell’s cloud-native, “elastic” MES platform, which aims to unify operational technology and IT across factories. If customers continue to adopt these MES solutions as the digital backbone of their plants, it could support higher software mix and margins, partly offsetting the impact of any pauses in large hardware-focused projects.

    Yet even with these promising developments, investors should be aware that prolonged delays in big ticket customer CapEx could still...

    Read the full narrative on Rockwell Automation (it's free!)

    Rockwell Automation's narrative projects $9.6 billion revenue and $1.5 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 6.2% yearly revenue growth and an earnings increase of about $0.5 billion from $966.2 million today.

    Uncover how Rockwell Automation's forecasts yield a $389.08 fair value, a 5% downside to its current price.

    Exploring Other Perspectives

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    Four members of the Simply Wall St Community value Rockwell between US$260 and US$389 per share, highlighting wide disagreement on upside. Set against this, the key risk remains that extended delays in customer CapEx projects could pressure both growth and margins, which matters for how you think about the company’s longer term earnings power.

    Explore 4 other fair value estimates on Rockwell Automation - why the stock might be worth 37% less than the current price!

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    This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.