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Roper Industries (ROP) - Boring but profitable.
An SI Board Since November 1997
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Emcee:  PuddleGlum Type:  Unmoderated
Introduction Compact
Roper has frequently made Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies in America list. I've owned shares off and on for several years now and have so far never lost money on a trade. The company has 3 business segments: Fluid Handling, Analytical Instruments, and Compressors & Controls. These divisions serve the semiconductor, oil & gas, and medical industries, to name a few. ROP's mode of operations is to buy small companies in complementary business segments, and to buy them cheap and squeeze the profits out as it competes on the basis of price and value in niche markets. One downside is that the company does considerable business with Russian energy giant Gazprom, and the flow of orders is vulnerable to political whims. Major orders have been postponed at least 3 times during the last several years as a result of Gazprom's politically-based financing problems.
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31Roper Industries agrees to buy Northern Digital finance.yahoo.com Northern DigiJakeStraw-5/10/2011
30TransCore Successfully Completes Factory Acceptance Testing of RFID MultiprotocoJakeStraw-3/17/2011
29Roper Industries Announces Record Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results finance.yJakeStraw-1/31/2011
28Roper Industries Q3 2010 Earnings Call Transcript October 26, 2010 seekingalpha.JakeStraw-10/26/2010
27Roper Industries Announces Record Third Quarter Results finance.yahoo.com Net EJakeStraw-10/25/2010
26Roper Industries to acquire iTradeNetwork for $525 million in cash finance.yahoJakeStraw-7/26/2010
25Roper Industries Announces Results For 2009 Fourth Quarter and Full Year financeJakeStraw-2/3/2010
24 Chip- I think that the company will come back into favor, but there's no tePuddleGlum-2/13/2000
23 PG: I think you made a good move in selling. I'm still sitting on my ROP. Chip Roos-2/13/2000
22 Chip- I don't know if I told you, but I sold out of this one around 34 or 3PuddleGlum-2/13/2000
21 Steve: I agree with you that this is a scary market. But I've always foundChip Roos-6/9/1999
20 Chip- Yeah, I saw the upgrade from SSB. How do you like stocks that make new hPuddleGlum-6/8/1999
19 Steve: Roper was upgraded last week by Solomon Smith Barney. For what that'Chip Roos-5/24/1999
18 Chip- I keep thinking about selling this one, but it is one of the most fundamePuddleGlum-5/23/1999
17 Steve: I agree with you that we're in good shape. It's too bad that I Chip Roos-2/19/1999
16 Chip- Jus' you & me in this fine company. Earnings are out: biz.yahoo.PuddleGlum-2/18/1999
15 Steve: I'm still very much in Roper in a big way. I'm somewhat to the Chip Roos-1/27/1999
14 Chip- I keep on thinking I should sell this, but I've always liked the compPuddleGlum-1/27/1999
13 (NewsTraders) -- Roper Industries Inc. (ROP) director E. Douglas Kenna sold 20,NewsTrader-10/7/1998
12 Steve: I was vacationing in San Juan...got out of there just in time. The islaChip Roos-9/21/1998
11 Chip- What were you doing in San Juan? We made the mistake of buying this stocPuddleGlum-9/20/1998
10 Puddle: Sorry for the delay in getting back to you but just now returned from SChip Roos-8/22/1998
9 Chip- You still around???? I just bought some shares this morning, so I'm bPuddleGlum-8/21/1998
8 Chip- Looks like skies are turning blue for this company. I'd still like tPuddleGlum-1/30/1998
7 Thanks Steve. I will, for sure, hold on to the Roper stock that I own but feelChip Roos-12/22/1997
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