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Rotork PLC (ROR.L) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

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

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 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
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 Closelooknet 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 Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Rotork PLC

ROR.L in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet 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 Closelooknet tracks it
Rotork holds no seat in our index, carries no Closelooknet 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 Closelooknet’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.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.71%, 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 1.71% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-10-06
  • 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.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Rotork PLC (ROR.L)?

Rotork PLC trades as ROR.L on the LSE exchange (UK) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is ROR.L in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Rotork PLC is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does ROR.L trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +0.7% vs the 50-day and +31.5% vs the 200-day average, 0.2% below the 52-week high and +70.5% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 51 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Rotork PLC compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Specialty Industrial Machinery · UK), Rotork PLC (ROR.L) sits 0.2% below its 52-week high, 0.7% above its 50-day average; Smiths Group PLC (SMIN.L) is 1.3% below, Spirax Group plc (SPX.L) is 7.1% below, IMI PLC (IMI.L) is 1.4% below. Put any of them next to ROR.L in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

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 Closelooknet 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 1.71% on the 2026-10-06 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 Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Specialty Industrial Machinery. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet 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.