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. Investors of record on Friday, August 30th will be given a dividend of $0.07 per share on Friday, September 27th. This represents a $0.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.40%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 29th. View Fortive's Dividend History.

Fortive Corp (NYSE:FTV) posted 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 analysts' expectations of $1.93 billion. Fortive had a net margin of 38.22% and a return on equity of 18.43%. The company's revenue was up 16.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $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 will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, October 24th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

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

14 Wall Street 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 $79.91 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 14.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Fortive.

14 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 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Fortive.

Headlines about FTV stock have trended neutral this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Fortive earned a coverage optimism score of 0.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the technology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Fortive.

Fortive saw a increase in short interest in the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totalling 7,740,000 shares, an increase of 10.1% from the August 15th total of 7,030,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,980,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.9 days. Approximately 2.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Fortive's Current Options Chain.

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Fortive's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.16%), Welch & Forbes LLC (0.10%), Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID (0.07%), Capital Investment Services of America Inc. (0.06%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%) and YHB Investment Advisors Inc. (0.03%). 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 Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, PFG Advisors, Chesley Taft & Associates LLC, Three Peaks Capital Management LLC, Webster Bank N. A., Toth Financial Advisory Corp, Private Trust Co. NA and Crossmark Global Holdings Inc.. 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 State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Douglas Lane & Associates LLC, Addenda Capital Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Capital Investment Services of America Inc., DNB Asset Management AS, YHB Investment Advisors Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company 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 $69.60.

Fortive has a market capitalization of $23.35 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]