Transferring Coverage of Roper Technologies with a $480 Fair Value Estimate and Wide Moat Rating

Roper Technologies compounds cash flow by acquiring leading businesses in niche markets with durable competitive advantages and redeploying excess cash to acquire additional businesses with incrementally higher rates of return. The firm has pivoted from a legacy industrial base to a diversified technology company dominated by sticky software companies with wide economic moats, including multiple firms with gross retention rates above 95%.