ROPER TECHNOLOGIES INC
For the period ended Sep 30, 2026. Filed Nov 2, 2026.
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Sep 30, 2026 · Filed Nov 2, 2026
ROP$476.60-2.9%Stored close · as of Nov 6, 2026
What changed in Risk Factors?
Read the current filingPrevious report: 10-Q
Period ended 2026-06-30; filed 2026-07-31.
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Item 1A. Risk FactorsCurrent report: 10-Q
Period ended 2026-09-30; filed 2026-11-02.
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Item 1A. Risk FactorsThe baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.
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A changed paragraph is not evidence that risk increased or decreased. An unchanged paragraph does not establish that risk stayed the same.
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Previous report
Our increasing use of artificial intelligence technologies presents operational, intellectual property, and competitive risks that could adversely affect our business, reputation, financial condition, and results of operations.
Previous report
We are increasingly incorporating AI solutions into our platforms, offerings, services, and operations, and we expect that AI will continue to become a more integral part of our business and the markets in which we operate over time. Our competitors, AI companies, or other third parties may incorporate AI into their products or operations in a manner that could impair our ability to compete effectively and adversely affect our results of operations. The rapid pace of AI advancement may make it difficult to maintain competitive advantages, and AI capabilities could become commoditized, reducing our ability to significantly differentiate our offerings. Additionally, we may face challenges in protecting and enforcing rights in AI-generated or AI-assisted innovations, as intellectual property protections for AI-created materials remain uncertain in many jurisdictions. Competitors may be able to reverse-engineer or replicate our AI capabilities, and questions regarding ownership or authorship of AI-generated content or inventions could create legal uncertainties. Generative AI technologies, including certain AI-enabled features incorporated into our solutions, may produce output that appears correct but is or is alleged to be inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading, or that incorporates protected material without explicit authorization. If we use AI or offer AI-enabled solutions in a manner that is alleged to be deficient, inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, violative of third-party intellectual property, biased, or otherwise flawed, our business, reputation, financial condition, and results of operations may be adversely affected.
Previous report
The use of AI tools by our employees, contractors, and other authorized users also presents operational, cybersecurity, intellectual property, confidentiality, and data governance risks. Unauthorized or inadvertent use of third-party AI platforms, AI coding assistants, or other AI-enabled development tools, including the submission of proprietary source code, confidential information, customer information, trade secrets, or other sensitive data to AI systems that are outside our controlled environments or are not approved for such use, could result in the unintended disclosure, retention, or use of such information, impair our ability to protect intellectual property, create contractual or legal obligations, or otherwise adversely affect our business, reputation, financial condition, and results of operations. We have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, instances of unauthorized or inadvertent use of AI technologies by personnel, however, such instances have not been material to the Company to date. While we maintain policies, technical controls, monitoring, and employee training governing the use of AI technologies, these measures may not prevent all unauthorized or inadvertent disclosures or misuse of sensitive information. In addition, unauthorized use of AI tools outside our approved governance framework (Shadow AI) may reduce the effectiveness of our information security, data governance, intellectual property protection, and records management controls.
Previous report
We rely on third-party AI platforms and services, including proprietary and open-source large language models and other AI technologies provided by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft. These providers may change their terms of service, increase pricing and/or change pricing models, discontinue services, experience outages, decline to provide certain indemnities, or make changes to their AI models that adversely affect our products or operations. As AI becomes more central to our offerings, our exposure to pricing changes from these providers increases, and we may not be able to pass such cost increases on to our customers. We have limited control over, and visibility into, the development, training data, model architecture, security, governance, availability, pricing, licensing terms, APIs, data handling practices, and future updates of these third-party AI systems. These providers may, among other things, modify model capabilities, acceptable use policies, safety features, commercial terms, or the manner in which their AI technologies are made available, which could require us to modify our products or operations, incur additional costs, discontinue certain functionality, or otherwise adversely affect our business. Any disruption in access to these services could have a significant impact on our business. The use of AI applications may result in cybersecurity incidents that implicate the personal data of end users of such applications. Any such cybersecurity incidents related to our use of AI applications could adversely affect our reputation and results of operations. AI also presents emerging ethical issues, and if our use of AI becomes controversial, we may experience brand, reputational, or competitive harm, or legal liability.
Previous report
We depend on our ability to develop new products and software, and any failure to develop or market new products and software could adversely affect our business.
Previous report
The future success of our business will depend, in part, on our ability to design and manufacture new competitive products, including the development of software, and to enhance existing product and software offerings, including through the development and deployment of AI. This product development may require substantial internal investment. There can be no assurance that unforeseen problems will not occur with respect to the development, performance, or market acceptance of new technologies, products, or software or that we will otherwise be able to successfully develop and market new products and software. Failure of our product or software offerings to gain market acceptance or our failure to successfully develop and market new products and software could reduce our margins, which would have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Previous report
Additionally, as we continue to increasingly build AI into many of our offerings, we face more competition as AI technologies are increasingly integrated into the markets in which we compete. New AI offerings may disrupt our offerings or transform workforce needs and may negatively impact demand for our offerings, or our competitors may be able to incorporate AI into their offerings more efficiently or successfully than we are able to. Even if our products are more effective than the products that our competitors offer, potential customers might select competitive products in lieu of purchasing our products. Failure to compete successfully against our competitors could negatively impact our future sales and harm our business.
Reworded paragraphs (2)
Previous wording
Information regarding risk factors can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Information About Forward-Looking Statements,” in Part I, Item 2 of this Quarterly Report and in Part I, Item 1A of our 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K. We are providing the following information regarding changes that have occurred to the previously disclosed risk factors in our 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Except for such additional information, there have been no other material changes during the six months ended June 30, 2026 to the risk factors reported in our 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Current wording
Information regarding risk factors can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Information About Forward-Looking Statements,” in Part I, Item 2 of this Quarterly Report, in Part I, Item 1A of our 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K, and in Part II, Item 1A of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026. We are providing the following updated risk factor, in its entirety, to reflect changes to the corresponding risk factor previously disclosed in those prior reports. Except for this update, there have been no other material changes to the risk factors disclosed in those prior reports as of the date of this Quarterly Report.
Previous wording
Our business operations are dependent upon information technology networks and systems to securely transmit, process, and store information and to communicate among our locations around the world and with clients, suppliers, and business partners. A shutdown of, or inability to access, one or more of our facilities, a power outage, or a failure of one or more of our information technology, telecommunications, or other systems could significantly impair our ability to perform such functions on a timely basis. Our compliance, cybersecurity and data privacy programs, cybersecurity technology, and risk management cannot eliminate all system risk. Credential compromise and identity-based attacks represent risks, and while we deploy identity threat protection and multi-factor authentication across our enterprise systems, determined attackers may still gain unauthorized access through sophisticated credential theft, session hijacking, social engineering, or privilege escalation techniques. Cybersecurity incidents including ransomware attacks, insider threats, system disruptions, and configuration errors could result in the misappropriation or corruption of data and assets, or disruptions to our business strategy, results of operations, and financial condition, and may require notification to customers and regulators with associated investigation, remediation, and monitoring obligations. These disruptions may include, but are not limited to, interruptions to business operations, loss of intellectual property, release of confidential or other sensitive information, alteration or corruption of data or systems, costs related to remediation or the payment of ransom, litigation (including individual claims, consumer class actions, or commercial litigation), administrative, civil, or criminal investigations or actions, regulatory intervention and sanctions or fines, investigation and remediation costs, and prolonged negative publicity. While we have experienced disruptions, and our Vertafore business was previously subject to litigation regarding the exposure of data which was dismissed, to date, management has not identified any material impact on the Company from these disruptions.
Current wording
Our business operations are dependent upon information technology networks and systems to securely transmit, process, and store information and to communicate among our locations around the world and with clients, suppliers, and business partners. A shutdown of, or inability to access, one or more of our facilities, a power outage, or a failure of one or more of our information technology, telecommunications, or other systems could significantly impair our ability to perform such functions on a timely basis. Our compliance, cybersecurity, and data privacy programs, cybersecurity technology, and risk management cannot eliminate all system risk. Credential compromise and identity-based attacks represent risks, and while we deploy identity threat protection and multi-factor authentication across our enterprise systems, determined attackers may still gain unauthorized access through sophisticated credential theft, session hijacking, social engineering, or privilege escalation techniques. Cybersecurity incidents including ransomware attacks, insider threats, system disruptions, exposure of data through human error, and configuration errors could result in the misappropriation or corruption of data and assets, or disruptions to our business strategy, results of operations, and financial condition, and may require notification to customers and regulators with associated investigation, remediation, and monitoring obligations. These disruptions may include, but are not limited to, interruptions to business operations, loss of intellectual property, release of confidential or other sensitive information, alteration or corruption of data or systems, costs related to remediation or the payment of ransom, litigation (including individual claims, consumer class actions, or commercial litigation), administrative, civil, or criminal investigations or actions, regulatory intervention and sanctions or fines, investigation and remediation costs, and prolonged negative publicity. While we have experienced disruptions and litigation relating to the exposure of data, to date, management has not identified any material impact on the Company from these disruptions.