Sentiment · FY2026 Q1
What companies say about each other on earnings calls — extracted verbatim from public transcripts. Mentions from the newest quarter are a Pro feature.
“deploying $3.3 billion towards high-quality vertical software acquisitions during the year, highlighted by Central Reach, SubSplash, and several tuck-in acquisitions.”
Roper acquired SubSplash as a 2025 platform deal expected to turn organic-accretive in the second half of 2026, a positive read-through on the acquired business.
“deploying $3.3 billion towards high-quality vertical software acquisitions during the year, highlighted by Central Reach, SubSplash, and several tuck-in acquisitions.”
Roper acquired Central Reach as a 2025 platform deal; management later notes it is ahead of the deal model, a positive read-through on the acquired vertical-software franchise.
“we completed the acquisition of Orchard, a tuck-in acquisition for our Clinisys business. Orchard brings additional clinical laboratory capability to Clinisys”
Roper acquired Orchard as a clinical-laboratory tuck-in strengthening its Clinisys business in reference, physician-office and public-health labs.
“Convoy is an unusual transaction for us as it currently is not profitable, but we expect the financial returns over the next several years to be extremely attractive.”
Roper acquired Convoy (a freight-tech/ML asset) as a currently-unprofitable technology tuck-in to complete DAT's freight-automation strategy.
“Subsplash, our most recent acquisition that closed on July 25, is off to a great start, delivering financial results in line with our deal model expectations.”
Roper acquired Subsplash for $800M; early results are tracking to deal model, with traction in its Pulpit AI content offering.
“financial impacts associated with minority investments, including cash taxes paid resulting from the sale of our minority interest in Certinia.”
Roper sold its minority equity stake in Certinia (formerly FinancialForce) during the quarter, generating a taxable gain that factored into non-GAAP adjustments.
“In terms of investment highlights, the purchase price is $800 million. We expect Subsplash to deliver $115 million of revenue and $36 million of EBITDA for the 12 months ending Q3 of 2026.”
Roper announced the $800 million acquisition of Subsplash, a cloud-native church management and digital giving software provider serving 20,000 faith-based organizations, expected to deliver $115 million of revenue and $36 million of EBITDA.
“This was a business that was owned by Incyte”
Roper's newly acquired CentralReach was previously owned by biotech Incyte, which sold the ABA-therapy software business to Roper for $1.65 billion net of a tax benefit.
“We partnered with PE firm [Haveli] (ph) to execute on a successful first chapter of a value creation plan.”
Roper partnered with private equity firm Haveli on the value-creation plan for its Certinia minority investment prior to exiting the position.
“Additionally, we exited our minority position in Certinia this quarter. As a reminder, Certinia is a professional services automation software company.”
Roper exited its minority investment in Certinia (professional services automation software) for $246M, a 2x return over a 14-month hold — a successful investment exit, not an operating subsidiary.
Roper closed FY2025 with DEPS of $20.00, free cash flow of nearly $2.5 billion up 8%, and over $500 million in opportunistic share repurchases. Low double-digit enterprise software bookings growth was sustained for the year, and an AI accelerator team was hired to scale product development. Management introduced FY2026 guidance of 8% revenue growth, 5-6% organic, with DEPS of $21.30-$21.55, conservative with no Deltek or DAT improvement assumed.
Demand | Cloud & AI | Revenue Growth | M&A | Competitive Dynamics | Guidance Reliability | Margin | Capital Allocation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024Q4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2025Q1 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025Q2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025Q3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025Q4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026Q1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| '24Q4 | '25Q1 | '25Q2 | '25Q3 | '25Q4 | '26Q1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demand | 5 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
| Cloud & AI | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 |
| Revenue Growth | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
| M&A | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
| Competitive Dynamics | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| Guidance Reliability | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 |
| Margin | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Capital Allocation | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Analyst | Firm | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Terry Tillman | Truist Securities | 12 (0%) |
| Deane Dray | RBC Capital Markets | 12 (0%) |
| Joe Giordano | TD Cowen | 11 (0%) |
| Ken Wong | Oppenheimer | 11 (9%) |
| Brent Thill | Jefferies | 11 (9%) |
| Joe Vruwink | Robert W. Baird | 10 (0%) |
| Joshua Tilton | Wolfe Research | 9 (0%) |
| Julian Mitchell | Barclays | 8 (25%) |
| Brad Reback | Stifel | 7 (14%) |
| Dylan Becker | William Blair | 6 (0%) |
| Firm | Analysts | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| RBC Capital Markets | 1 | 12 (0%) |
| Truist Securities | 1 | 12 (0%) |
| Jefferies | 1 | 11 (9%) |
| TD Cowen | 1 |
| 11 (0%) |
| Oppenheimer | 1 | 11 (9%) |
| Robert W. Baird | 1 | 10 (0%) |
| Wolfe Research | 1 | 9 (0%) |
| William Blair | 2 | 8 (0%) |
| Company | Score | Trend | Rev YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
ROP Roper Technologies | 8 | +11.3% | |
| AME Ametek | 8 | +11.3% | |
| AOS A. O. Smith | 1 | -1.9% | |
| CMI Cummins | 7 | +2.7% | |
| DOV Dover Corporation | 7 | +10.1% | |
| EMR Emerson Electric | 6 | +2.9% | |
| ETN Eaton Corporation | 8 | +16.8% | |
| GNRC Generac | 9 | +12.4% | |
| HWM Howmet Aerospace | 9 | +19.1% | |
| IEX IDEX Corporation | 8 | +8.9% | |
| IR Ingersoll Rand | 5 | +7.6% | |
| ITW Illinois Tool Works | 7 | +4.6% | |
| NDSN Nordson Corporation | 9 | +8.5% | |
| OTIS Otis Worldwide | 4 | +6.5% | |
| PH Parker Hannifin | 8 | +10.6% | |
| PNR Pentair | 6 | +2.6% | |
| ROK Rockwell Automation | 9 | +11.8% | |
| XYL Xylem Inc. | 5 | +2.7% |