{"city":"Bath","name":"Rotork","slug":"rotork","facts":[{"date":"2026-07-16","type":"ownership_change","value":"ABB agreed to acquire Rotork for 503 pence per share in cash via a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement","source":"abb.com"},{"date":"2026-07-16","type":"ownership_change","value":"public float","source":"abb.com"},{"date":"2026-07-16","type":"ownership_change","value":"USD 5500000000","source":"abb.com"},{"date":"2025-12-31","type":"ownership_change","value":"Public float","source":"abb.com and engineering.com"},{"date":"2025-12-31","type":"revenue","value":"Approximately USD 1 billion FY2025 revenue","source":"abb.com and engineering.com"},{"date":"2025-12-31","type":"revenue","value":"USD 1000000000","source":"abb.com and engineering.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"England","aliases":["Rotork plc","Rotork Controls"],"country":"United Kingdom","domains":[{"why":null,"list":null,"rank":null,"tier":"watchlist","layer":null,"total":80,"domain":"Robotics","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":8,"firepower":8,"commercial":10,"deployment":10,"production":10,"technology":6},"edition":null,"segment":null}],"founded":null,"signals":[],"website":"rotork.com","category":"Unspecified","categories":[{"name":"Unspecified","domain":"Unspecified","parent":null}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T19:12:46.095+00:00","facts_total":6,"positioning":"Rotork makes electric actuators, flow control products and instrumentation for mission-critical industrial applications, serving oil and gas, chemical, process and industrial including data centers, plus water and power. FY2025 revenue was approximately USD 1 billion at a 24.6 percent adjusted operating margin, following 8 percent average annual organic growth across 2022 to 2025. On 2026-07-16 ABB agreed to acquire it for 503 pence per share in cash, an enterprise value of roughly USD 5.5 billion, a premium of about 60 percent to the three-month average, implying 5.3 times 2025 sales and 19.5 times 2025 EBITDA. This is the largest-ever ABB acquisition, to be implemented by a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement and expected to close in the first half of 2027. Rotork will run as a separate division inside the ABB Automation business under the decentralised ABB Way model. The registry-relevant context sits on the other side of the ABB balance sheet: ABB is funding this partly from an expected USD 4.8 billion of net proceeds from selling its Robotics business to SoftBank, targeted to close in the second half of 2026, so one conglomerate is rotating out of robots and into actuation and flow control. Taxonomy strain: Rotork makes industrial process actuators for pipelines and plants, not robot joint actuators, so this Robotics · Components · Actuation placement is a nearest-fit and Rotork should move if an industrial-process sub_category is added.","sub_category":null,"signals_total":0,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/rotork","title":"Rotork · robotics, Bath, England, United Kingdom · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Robotics watchlist (score 80)","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}