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

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

Fortive declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 15th. Investors 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 0.39%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 29th. View Fortive's Dividend History.

Fortive Corp (NYSE:FTV) issued its earnings results on Thursday, July, 25th. The technology company reported $0.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.89 by $0.01. The technology company had revenue of $1.86 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.93 billion. Fortive had a net margin of 38.22% and a return on equity of 18.43%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 16.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm 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 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 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 1 year 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 $79.91 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 10.6% 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.

Media stories about FTV stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing 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 positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Fortive earned a daily sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the technology company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. 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 short-interest 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 number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC (0.49%), Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.16%), Welch & Forbes LLC (0.10%), ZWJ Investment Counsel Inc. (0.10%), Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID (0.07%) and Whittier Trust Co. (0.07%). 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 Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, PFG Advisors, Farmers & Merchants Investments Inc., Chesley Taft & Associates LLC, Renaissance Investment Group LLC, CIBC Private Wealth Group 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, 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Douglas Lane & Associates LLC, ZWJ Investment Counsel Inc., Addenda Capital Inc., Whittier Trust Co., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Middleton & Co Inc MA and Capital Investment Services of America 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of FTV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $72.26.

Fortive has a market capitalization of $24.25 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]