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accession: "0001193125-25-230104"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROK"
cik: "0001024478"
company_name: "ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC"
filed_at: "2025-10-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:41:34.617017+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rockwell Automation enters new change-of-control agreements with five executives through Sept 2028

## Summary
- New agreements effective Sept 30, 2025 through Oct 1, 2028, replacing expired 2022 agreements.
- Executives covered: CEO Blake D. Moret, CFO Christian E. Rothe, and three others (Genereux, Myers, House).
- Terms are substantially the same as prior agreements described in the December 2024 proxy statement.
- Agreements provide severance protections if a change of control occurs during the three-year period.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-230104
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROK
- cik: 0001024478
- company_name: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC
- filed_at: 2025-10-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312525230104/0001193125-25-230104-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024478/000119312525230104/d64929d8k.htm

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