Roper Technologies - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Roper Technologies is Medium Risk.

Roper Technologies often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Roper Technologies occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	No Data
Employment Protection	Lower Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	High Risk
Political Actions	No Data

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Roper Technologies promotes divisive sex and gender policies. Its Supplier Code of Conduct requires international vendors to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their nondiscrimination policy (1). However, the company has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs.

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Roper Technologies does not publish charitable giving guidelines.

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Roper Technologies protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (1). The company holds employee DEI trainings such as transgender inclusivity, unconscious bias, microaggressions, and being an inclusive leader (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Roper Technologies has committed to public advocacy for LGBTQ causes. Its subsidiary, Deltek, incorporates gender pronouns in email signatures (1). The company is a founding member of OneTen, which has a mission to spread DEI in corporate America, and Roper’s CEO is on OneTen’s Board of Directors (2)(3). Roper Technologies “actively integrates DEI principles into the best practice procedures for hiring, developing, and engaging our employees” (4). Roper Technologies and its subsidiaries incorporate ESG into all of its business practices (5). The company’s CEO is a member of the Business Roundtable, which supports stakeholder capitalism over traditional shareholder obligations (6).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Roper Technologies has donated to the Black Lives Matter movement and related causes (1)(2). Both Roper Technologies and Aderant, a subsidiary of Roper Technologies, are coalition members of OneTen, appearing to prioritize diversity over merit in its hiring (3)(4)(5).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Roper Technologies does not operate a PAC or report on its lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).