---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-122544"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROK"
cik: "0001024478"
company_name: "ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T01:01:03.783496+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rockwell Automation enters $500M 364-day term loan credit agreement

## Summary
- Borrowed $500M on May 16, 2025 under a senior unsecured 364-day term loan facility maturing May 15, 2026.
- Interest rates: base rate plus 0.000%-0.250% margin or term SOFR plus 1.000%-1.250%, based on credit ratings.
- Proceeds used for general corporate purposes; existing $1.5B five-year credit facility remains outstanding and undrawn.
- Covenant requires Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated Interest Expense ratio of at least 3.00:1.00 for four consecutive quarters.
- Agreement includes customary events of default and acceleration provisions; no restriction on dividend payments.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-122544
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROK
- cik: 0001024478
- company_name: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312525122544/0001193125-25-122544-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312525122544/d941992d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC incurred term loan of $500,000,000 with Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent at term SOFR plus applicable term SOFR margin maturing May 15, 2026.
  - Instrument: term loan
  - Principal: $500,000,000
  - Counterparty: Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent
  - Rate: term SOFR plus applicable term SOFR margin
  - Maturity: May 15, 2026
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On May 16, 2025, Rockwell Automation, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a $500,000,000 senior unsecured 364-day term loan credit agreement with the Banks listed therein, Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, U.S. Bank National Association, as Syndication Agent, and The Toronto-Dominion Bank, New York Branch and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Documentation Agents (the “Agreement”). On May 16, 2025, the Banks advanced loans under the Agreement in the amount of $500,000,000.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312525122544/0001193125-25-122544-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.