Roper Ind.

Introduction and History to Date

Since the past 34 years, Roper Industries is a leader in fluid handling, industrial controls, and analytical instrumentation industries. The main goal in the company perspectives is to increase the company’s value to the shareholders by the results of maintaining consistent and sustainable growth in earnings of each share. Roper’s management places high value on creating and maximizing cash flow to grow through acquisitions while returning value with quarterly dividends back to shareholders. Roper Industries is referred to a diversified technology company founded by, George D. Roper, who headquartered the company in Sarasota, Florida. The company was incorporated in 1981 and became a public company in 1992. Roper Industries competes with huge notable industry conglomerates of General Electric Co. (GE), 3M Co. (MMM), Siemens AG (SIEGY), and Toshiba Co. (TOSBF) with market values from 2 to 15 times the value of Roper Industries.

The company alone is place in very target diverse market segments of radio frequency applications, oil and gas, water and wastewater, power generation technology. Roper Industries. With over 9000+ employees, Roper Industries provides key products in the marketplace like electron microscope accessories, spectrographic systems, digital imaging cameras, image processing software, high-speed digital video equipment. The area where the company has been very successful in is the Medical and Scientific Imaging segment with over 30% in the sales, operating profits, and operating margins segments. Most of Roper Industries success now is through their driven success overseas by which half of its sales are generated from several acquisitions. Throughout the Roper’s history, the company has sustain strong margins and growing cash flow to acquire over 10 different companies that has added value to the different niche markets the company carefully and strategically operates in the marketplace. With acquiring small...