Fortive Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:FTV)

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

Fortive announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 15th. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.07 per share on Friday, September 27th. This represents a $0.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.41%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 29th. View Fortive's Dividend History.

Fortive Corp (NYSE:FTV) announced its earnings results on Thursday, July, 25th. The technology company reported $0.90 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.89 by $0.01. The technology company earned $1.86 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.93 billion. Fortive had a return on equity of 18.43% and a net margin of 38.22%. Fortive's quarterly revenue was up 16.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.91 earnings per share. View Fortive's Earnings History.

Fortive is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Fortive.

Fortive issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, July, 25th. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.45-3.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.59.

13 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Fortive's shares. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $99.00. On average, they expect Fortive's share price to reach $81.6480 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 19.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Fortive.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fortive in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Fortive.

Media stories about FTV stock have trended somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Fortive earned a daily sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the technology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Fortive.

Fortive saw a drop in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 7,406,500 shares, a drop of 17.2% from the July 31st total of 8,939,900 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,710,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.3 days. Approximately 2.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Fortive's Current Options Chain.

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Fortive's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (6.63%), Brown Advisory Inc. (1.80%), Northern Trust Corp (1.30%), Nuveen Asset Management LLC (1.16%), Bessemer Group Inc. (0.80%) and Winslow Capital Management LLC (0.71%). Company insiders that own Fortive stock include Alan G Spoon, Barbara B Hulit, Charles E Mclaughlin, Emily A Weaver, James A Lico, Jonathan L Schwarz, Martin Gafinowitz, 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 Atlanta Capital Management Co. L L C, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Brown Advisory Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Jennison Associates LLC, Jennison Associates LLC and Argent Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Fortive company stock in the last year include Barbara B Hulit, Emily A Weaver, James A Lico, Jonathan L Schwarz, Martin Gafinowitz, Stacey A Walker and William W Pringle. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fortive.

FTV stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Baillie Gifford & Co., Schroder Investment Management Group, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Winslow Capital Management LLC, Elkfork Partners LLC and Glen Harbor Capital Management LLC. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of FTV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $68.18.

Fortive has a market capitalization of $22.88 billion and generates $6.45 billion in revenue each year. The technology company earns $2.91 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.06 on an earnings per share basis. Fortive employs 24,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Fortive.

The official website for Fortive is http://www.fortive.com/.

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]