Industrial Automation stocks slide

You'll find lots of interesting information, with graphs, charts, facts and figures on the web. Take a look for yourself on the Yahoo Financial news website:
To round out the majors, Siemens, ABB, Schneider, Invensys and Yokogawa are a bit more difficult to track, since they are on several different foreign exchanges and their stock prices are quoted in a hundred different currencies and formats. But their stocks too have been going nowhere fast.

Pinto's Analysis & Predictions :

Honeywell is stewing in its own Allied merger juice and will probably sell-off Industrial Automation (IAC) when someone makes a good enough offer to bypass their protests that it is not yet available. Or, if no one is bold enough, they will eventually piece-meal it off.

Rockwell, has sales of $7b and a market-valuation of $ 6b. Eaton has sales of $ 9b with a market-cap of $5b. These two, with proximity in both Milwaukee and Cleveland, should be talking seriously before either, or both, become targets. Smaller Danaher, sales $ 3b and market-cap $ 6b, is probably eyeing them both even as we speak. Invensys is busy with Baan, pruning for profit. Which leaves Emerson, with $ 15b sales and $ 26b market-cap, either ready to acquire or be acquired.

Quote : "You're either the steamroller, or part of the pavement!"

My article gives you the background on these machinations :

"The Changing Face of Automation"

My previous tome includes sales vs. market-cap for all the industrial automation leaders :

The Urge to Merge