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Renishaw PLC (RSW.L) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for RSW.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 Scientific & Technical Instruments · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Scientific & Technical Instruments

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 RSW.L on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Renishaw PLC

RSW.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
Renishaw designs, makes and services precision measurement and motion-control equipment alongside a smaller line of medical and scientific devices. One arm supplies probes, styli and interferometric encoders that let machine tools and coordinate-measuring machines check and calibrate their own accuracy. The other supplies stereotactic surgical robots, drug-delivery systems, planning software and Raman spectrometers for research and clinical use, plus additive manufacturing systems. Customers span aerospace, automotive, electronics, energy and precision-manufacturing plants as well as research labs. It is based in Wotton-under-Edge, England.
Where it sits in the stack
Renishaw carries no seat in our index and no Rubin layer assignment; it sits within our scientific-and-technical-instruments sleeve, the broader group that supplies the calibration and metrology tools factories use to keep production accurate, without a defined role in the AI build-out stack as it stands.
Who it is priced against
The diary has no peer group on file for this name; the comparison the market most often draws is with Hexagon AB, another maker of precision measurement systems.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Renishaw holds no index seat in the diary and carries no Closelooknet score, so neither module strength nor weakness can be reported; it appears in no edition and has not been quoted.
What the diary watches
Whether Renishaw's measurement tools gain a role in semiconductor or advanced-packaging quality checks, which would give it a clearer seat in the build-out the diary tracks.

Renishaw PLC (RSW.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 1.30%, semi-annual · last 16.80 GBP on 2026-03-05

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 78.10 GBP per share · a 1.30% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year +2.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 76.20 GBP per share
  • Last distribution 16.80 GBP per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-03-05
  • By calendar year 2023: 59.40 GBP (partial) · 2024: 76.20 GBP · 2025: 78.10 GBP · 2026: 16.80 GBP to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-02

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 Renishaw PLC (RSW.L)?

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

Is RSW.L in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Renishaw 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 RSW.L trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +14.4% vs the 50-day and +30.7% vs the 200-day average, 0.7% below the 52-week high and +83.4% off the 52-week low. 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 Renishaw PLC compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Scientific & Technical Instruments), Renishaw PLC (RSW.L) sits 0.7% below its 52-week high, 14.4% above its 50-day average; Cognex Corporation (CGNX) is 10.0% below, Oxford Instruments PLC (OXIG.L) is 8.1% below, Shimadzu Corp (SHMXY) is 22.0% below. Put any of them next to RSW.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 Renishaw PLC do?

Renishaw designs, makes and services precision measurement and motion-control equipment alongside a smaller line of medical and scientific devices. One arm supplies probes, styli and interferometric encoders that let machine tools and coordinate-measuring machines check and calibrate their own accuracy. The other supplies stereotactic surgical robots, drug-delivery systems, planning software and Raman spectrometers for research and clinical use, plus additive manufacturing systems. The diary has no peer group on file for this name; the comparison the market most often draws is with Hexagon AB, another maker of precision measurement systems.

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

Renishaw carries no seat in our index and no Rubin layer assignment; it sits within our scientific-and-technical-instruments sleeve, the broader group that supplies the calibration and metrology tools factories use to keep production accurate, without a defined role in the AI build-out stack as it stands. Renishaw holds no index seat in the diary and carries no Closelooknet score, so neither module strength nor weakness can be reported; it appears in no edition and has not been quoted.

Does Renishaw PLC pay a dividend?

Renishaw PLC has paid 78.10 GBP per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 1.30% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 16.80 GBP on 2026-03-05. 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 RSW.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 Scientific & Technical Instruments. 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.