Fortive Corp
Fortive Corp (FTV) is listed on NYSE and classified in Scientific & Technical Instruments, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Everett, United States and has 10,000 employees. The company is worth $18.14B and trades at 30.8x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $4.16B in fiscal 2025, up 1.9% from the year before. Net income was $579.2M. The share price is 7.0% below its 52-week high of $64.56. It pays a dividend yielding 0.47%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Andreas Halvorsen (Viking Global Investors), at $1.22B. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +3.8% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,034.90▲ +3.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 10 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $55.21 | $56.52 | $55.49 | $48.42 | $57.49 | $53.37 | $48.17 | $42.67 | $45.62 | $33.82 | |
| P/E | 24.2x | 31.9x | 23.9x | 22.8x | 30.6x | 46.8x | 15.8x | 32.4x | 6.9x | 24.4x | 21.4x |
| P/S | 5.2x |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 24.2 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 14.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZBRAZebra Technologies Corp | $384.16 | 35.8x | 5.3x | 0.00% | 15.29% | $18.17B |
| DTDynatrace, Inc. | $63.37 | 129.3x | 7.5x | 0.00% | 5.88% | $18.39B |
| FSLRFirst Solar Inc | $171.25 | 10.8x | 1.8x | 0.00% | 18.51% | $18.4B |
| FICOFair Isaac Corp | $823.27 |
| 4.1x |
| 6.3x |
| 6.6x |
| 3.9x |
| 5.2x |
| 5.2x |
| 5.6x |
| 6.0x |
| 4.4x |
| 3.5x |
| P/B | 2.8x | 2.6x | 2.5x | 2.5x | 2.3x | 2.9x | 2.7x | 3.5x | 3.4x | 6.6x | 6.9x |
| EPS | $1.73 | $2.36 | $2.43 | $1.58 | $1.23 | $3.38 | $1.48 | $6.19 | $1.87 | $1.58 |
| Dividend yield | 0.39% | 0.44% | 0.43% | 0.39% | 0.44% | 0.37% | 0.35% | 0.37% | 0.41% | 0.39% | 0.26% |
| Payout | 9.84% | 13.91% | 10.22% | 8.99% | 13.33% | 17.18% | 5.47% | 11.89% | 2.85% | 9.46% | 5.58% |
| Profit margin | 17.18% | 13.93% | 20.41% | 22.12% | 12.96% | 11.58% | 34.81% | 16.19% | 76.67% | 18.15% | 16.22% |
| ROE | 9.49% | 8.98% | 8.17% | 8.39% | 7.80% | 6.40% | 18.00% | 10.00% | 44.18% | 27.56% | 32.45% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-27.1% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| $17.78B |
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