NYSE:FTV - Fortive Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Fortive trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "FTV."

Fortive announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, August 3rd. Investors of record on Friday, August 31st will be given a dividend of $0.07 per share on Friday, September 28th. This represents a $0.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 30th. View Fortive's Dividend History.

Fortive Corp (NYSE:FTV) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 26th. The technology company reported $0.91 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.89 by $0.02. The technology company had revenue of $1.86 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.83 billion. Fortive had a net margin of 16.38% and a return on equity of 27.22%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 13.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.71 earnings per share. View Fortive's Earnings History.

Fortive is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October, 25th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Fortive.

Fortive updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 26th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.42-3.50 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $3.47. Fortive also updated its Q3 guidance to $0.83-0.87 EPS.

10 equities research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Fortive's shares. Their predictions range from $72.00 to $94.00. On average, they expect Fortive's share price to reach $84.80 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Fortive.

10 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fortive in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Fortive.

Fortive saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 11,797,631 shares, an increase of 47.7% from the August 15th total of 7,987,670 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,333,697 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.1 days. Currently, 3.8% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Fortive's Current Options Chain.

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Media coverage about FTV stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Fortive earned a news and rumor sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also gave media headlines about the technology company an impact score of 46.57 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View Recent Headlines for Fortive.

Fortive's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (6.80%), BlackRock Inc. (5.79%), Brown Advisory Inc. (1.77%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.48%), Northern Trust Corp (1.25%) and Bessemer Group Inc. (1.12%). Company insiders that own Fortive stock include Alan G Spoon, Barbara B Hulit, Charles E Mclaughlin, Emily A Weaver, James A Lico, Raj Ratnakar, Stacey A Walker and William W Pringle. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Fortive.

FTV stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Baird Financial Group Inc., Scopus Asset Management L.P., Flossbach Von Storch AG, Brown Advisory Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Sawgrass Asset Management LLC and United Services Automobile Association. Company insiders that have sold Fortive company stock in the last year include Barbara B Hulit, Charles E Mclaughlin, Emily A Weaver, James A Lico, Raj Ratnakar, Stacey A Walker and William W Pringle. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fortive.

FTV stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Artisan Partners Limited Partnership, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Findlay Park Partners LLP, Jennison Associates LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Glenmede Trust Co. NA and Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fortive.

Shares of FTV can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of FTV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $87.82.

Fortive has a market capitalization of $30.02 billion and generates $6.66 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $1.04 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.89 on an earnings per share basis. Fortive employs 26,000 workers across the globe.

Fortive's mailing address is 6920 SEAWAY BLVD., EVERETT WA, 98203. The technology company can be reached via phone at 425-446-5000 or via email at [email protected]