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Company snapshot — Rotork PLC

ROR.L in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Rotork designs flow-control and instrumentation equipment: actuators, gearboxes, valve controllers and related sensors that regulate the movement of fluids and gases in pipelines and process plants. It sells across three segments — oil and gas, water and power, and chemical, process and industrial — under a handful of brand names it has bought over the years. Customers include utilities, refiners and industrial plants that need precise, remote control over valves and flow. It is based in Bath, England.
Where it sits in the stack
Rotork sits outside our AI build-out index; it belongs to the Industrials sector, specifically specialty industrial machinery, where its products serve process plants rather than data centres or chip supply chains.
Who it is priced against
Our data carries no assigned peer group for this name; the comparison the market sometimes draws is with the flow-control arm of Emerson Electric, a larger diversified industrial group.
Why Closelook tracks it
Rotork holds no seat in our index, carries no Closelook score yet, and has not appeared in the diary's quotes or editions to date.
What the diary watches
Whether the company gains exposure to carbon capture, hydrogen or desalination projects that would tie its flow-control products more closely to energy-transition spending the diary follows elsewhere.

Rotork PLC (ROR.L) trades on the LSE exchange in UK.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for ROR.L, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Specialty Industrial Machinery · UK · 6 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Specialty Industrial Machinery · UK

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against ROR.L on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.72%, semi-annual · last 3.00 GBP on 2026-08-13

Dividends and capital return

What ROR.L pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 8.35 GBP per share · a 1.72% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +5.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 7.95 GBP per share
  • Last distribution 3.00 GBP per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-13
  • By calendar year 2024: 7.40 GBP (partial) · 2025: 7.95 GBP · 2026: 8.35 GBP to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2024-04-18

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Rotork PLC (ROR.L)?

Rotork PLC trades as ROR.L on the LSE exchange (UK) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is ROR.L in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Rotork PLC is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does ROR.L trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +4.1% vs the 50-day and +34.3% vs the 200-day average, 0.9% below the 52-week high and +69.2% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 38 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Rotork PLC do?

Rotork designs flow-control and instrumentation equipment: actuators, gearboxes, valve controllers and related sensors that regulate the movement of fluids and gases in pipelines and process plants. It sells across three segments — oil and gas, water and power, and chemical, process and industrial — under a handful of brand names it has bought over the years. Customers include utilities, refiners and industrial plants that need precise, remote control over valves and flow. Our data carries no assigned peer group for this name; the comparison the market sometimes draws is with the flow-control arm of Emerson Electric, a larger diversified industrial group.

Where does Rotork PLC sit in the AI build-out?

Rotork sits outside our AI build-out index; it belongs to the Industrials sector, specifically specialty industrial machinery, where its products serve process plants rather than data centres or chip supply chains. Rotork holds no seat in our index, carries no Closelook score yet, and has not appeared in the diary's quotes or editions to date.

Does Rotork PLC pay a dividend?

Rotork PLC has paid 8.35 GBP per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 1.72% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 3.00 GBP on 2026-08-13. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ROR.L, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Specialty Industrial Machinery. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.