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ABB’s $5.5B Rotork buy highlights flow-control deals and targets
Rotork generated 777 million pounds of revenue in 2025 with a 24.6% adjusted operating margin, signaling the margins ABB paid for in its largest acquisition.
Swiss engineering and automation company ABB is drawing renewed attention from investors after it agreed to buy Rotork for $5.5 billion, its largest acquisition to date, a move that MarketBeat Ratings links to the appeal of flow control technology within industrial automation.
Rotork makes electric actuators and instrumentation products used to sense, control, and act on industrial conditions, and the acquisition premium underscores how dominant the niche market position could be, MarketBeat Ratings said.
MarketBeat Ratings also points to potential parallels among other industrial flow-control names, highlighting Watts Water Technologies as a natural comparison given its flow control valves and pressure management offerings that serve some overlapping end markets.