What does Emerson Electric do?

Emerson makes the equipment and software that help factories, refineries and other industrial plants run automatically and safely. Its products include valves that control the flow of liquids and gases, sensors that measure things like pressure and temperature, and control software that runs whole plants. It also sells professional tools such as pipe wrenches and electrical tools, plus automated test and measurement systems.

What is Emerson Electric's fair value?

On an owner-earnings DCF, Emerson Electric's most-likely fair value is about $133, versus a recent price near $162. A margin-of-safety estimate, not a price target. Analysis, not advice.

Industrials · Specialty Industrial Machinery · EMR

What Emerson Electric Does & How It Makes Money (EMR)

Updated October 2026 · reflects Emerson Electric's latest reported financials

Industrial automation company making valves, sensors, control systems and tools. Emerson earns revenue by selling valves, actuators, instruments, automation hardware, professional tools, and test systems to industrial customers.

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How Emerson Electric makes money

Emerson earns revenue by selling valves, actuators, instruments, automation hardware, professional tools, and test systems to industrial customers. It also sells control systems and software for running plant processes.

What Emerson Electric does

Emerson Electric Co., founded in 1890 and based in St. Louis, describes itself as a technology and software company serving industrial customers across the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Its main business is automation for process and hybrid industries. Final Control sells valves, actuators and regulators under brands like Fisher, Bettis and Keystone. Measurement & Analytical supplies Rosemount, Micro Motion and Flexim instruments that track pressure, flow, temperature, gases and water quality. Control Systems & Software provides the DeltaV and Ovation platforms, which gather data from these devices to run plant processes. Emerson also serves discrete manufacturing through its Discrete Automation segment, which covers pneumatics, solenoid valves, electric linear motion, programmable controllers and joining equipment under brands like ASCO, Aventics and Branson. Safety & Productivity sells RIDGID, Greenlee, Klauke and ProTeam tools to professionals and homeowners. Test & Measurement offers software-connected automated test systems.

Products & services

Fisher control valves
Rosemount and Micro Motion instrumentation
DeltaV and Ovation control systems
ASCO solenoid valves
RIDGID tools
Automated test and measurement systems

What is Emerson Electric worth?

On an owner-earnings DCF, Emerson Electric's most-likely value is about $133 versus a recent price near $162 (18% above fair value). But TacticScale only calls a stock undervalued when the price sits below its conservative no-growth floor (~$64) with a margin of safety — so the honest verdict here is “Fairly priced — no edge.” Fair value earns its keep only at the extremes, not in the wide middle.

Verdict: Fairly priced — no edge

Owner-earnings fair value · recent price ≈ $162

Fair value (most likely)

$133

Range

$96–$204

No-growth floor

$64

Price

~$162

Price sits in the normal range — fair value isn't actionable here; it earns its keep only when price drops below the no-growth floor, or runs to roughly double the optimistic case.

Analysis, not advice. Fair value is a margin-of-safety estimate from a deterministic owner-earnings DCF, not a price target or recommendation. See the full breakdown →

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