NYSE:FTV - Fortive Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Fortive declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 7th. Investors of record on Friday, November 29th will be paid a dividend of $0.07 per share on Friday, December 27th. This represents a $0.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.38%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 27th. View Fortive's Dividend History.

Fortive Corp (NYSE:FTV) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 24th. The technology company reported $0.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.87. The technology company had revenue of $1.86 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.89 billion. Fortive had a return on equity of 17.41% and a net margin of 37.57%. Fortive's revenue was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.86 earnings per share. View Fortive's Earnings History.

Fortive is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Fortive.

Fortive will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

16 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Fortive's stock. Their forecasts range from $65.00 to $99.00. On average, they anticipate Fortive's stock price to reach $81.92 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Fortive.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fortive in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Fortive.

Headlines about FTV stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Fortive earned a news sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles 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 stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Fortive.

Fortive saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 6,760,000 shares, a drop of 5.2% from the December 31st total of 7,130,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,790,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.8 days. Currently, 2.3% of the company's stock are short sold. 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 California Public Employees Retirement System (0.21%), Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.17%), Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA (0.17%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.12%), Welch & Forbes LLC (0.09%) and Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID (0.08%). 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 Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Fiduciary Advisors LLP MA, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Welch & Forbes LLC, Arizona State Retirement System, Strs Ohio, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Arthur M. Cohen & Associates LLC and Three Peaks Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Fortive company stock in the last year include Barbara B Hulit, Emily A Weaver, 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., TIAA FSB, California Public Employees Retirement System, Douglas Lane & Associates LLC, Sciencast Management LP, New York State Teachers Retirement System, Alpine Global Management LLC and Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management UK Ltd.. 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 $74.62.

Fortive has a market capitalization of $25.06 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]