profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Fortive
$67.89+0.24% today
+30.9% in 1 year
1-year low $50.381-year high $68.34
Trading close to its highest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2020 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $34.89 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Fortive sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $5.83 billion in 2022 to $4.16 billion in 2025, with $579 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Fortive handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
Buybacks $1.6B
Free cash flow 2025$1.1B
Bought back its own shares$1.6B
Paid as dividends$92M
Cash vs. debt$376M vs. $3.3B
Fortive vs. similar companies
Fortive grows the slowest of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fortive | 34.9× · Expensive | ||
 Everpure | 188.6× · Very expensive | ||
 Ingersoll Rand | 56.2× · Expensive | ||
 Otis Worldwide | 21.3× · Fair price | ||
 Dover | 25.8× · Fair price |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Fortive's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,634 | 5,255 | 5,826 | 3,914 | 4,081 | 4,159 | |
| 2,609 | 3,007 | 3,363 | 2,477 | 2,619 | 2,641 | |
| 539 | 813 | 1,005 | 574 | 716 | 720 | |
| 923 | 1,208 | 1,437 | 983 | 1,090 | 1,160 | |
| 1,544 | 574 | 755 | 866 | 833 | 579 | |
| 4.49 | 1.63 | 2.10 | 2.43 | 2.36 | 1.73 | |
| 56.3% | 57.2% | 57.7% | 63.3% | 64.2% | 63.5% | |
| 11.6% | 15.5% | 17.3% | 14.7% | 17.6% | 17.3% | |
| 33.3% | 10.9% | 13.0% | 22.1% | 20.4% | 13.9% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 16,052 | 16,466 | 15,891 | 16,912 | 17,016 | 11,738 |
| Cash | 1,825 | 819 | 709 | 1,889 | 813 | 376 |
| Total debt | 4,384 | 4,099 | 3,421 | 3,810 | 3,707 | 3,307 |
| Total liabilities | – | – | 6,202 | 6,587 | 6,821 | 5,277 |
| 8,964 | 9,512 | 9,683 | 10,319 | 10,189 | 6,453 | |
| 359 | 352 | 361 | 356 | 353 | 335 | |
| 3.2% | 4.7% | 5.9% | 3.1% | 3.7% | 5.8% | |
| 17.2% | 6.0% | 7.8% | 8.4% | 8.2% | 9.0% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,437 | 961 | 1,303 | 1,354 | 1,527 | 1,083 | |
| – | – | 96 | 108 | 120 | – | |
| – | – | 1,207 | 1,354 | 1,527 | 1,083 | |
| Dividends paid | 94 | 98 | 100 | 102 | 111 | 92 |
| 0 | 0 | 443 | 273 | 890 | 1,610 | |
| 63 | 77 | 94 | 95 | 90 | 117 |
Valuation
- 34.9×
- 22.8×
- –
- 3.0×
- 4.9×
- 18.7×
- 19.9×
- 5.4%
- 2.9%
- 0.4%
Profitability
- 63.5%
- 17.3%
- 13.9%
- 23.3%
- 7.3%
- 5.7%
- 7.4%
- 4.7%
- 8.9%
- 6.4%
Growth
- −2.1%
- −17.4%
- −30.5%
- +5.4%
- −2.4%
Financial health
- 2.8×
- 0.57
- 30.1%
- 7.0×
- 0.71
- 0.57
- 0.41
How it ranks in Industrials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 48%of 982
Top 16%of 989
Bottom 25%of 870
Bottom 13%of 986
Top 34%of 988
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $61.50
- Range
- $51.00 – $70.00
- 5 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2026 | 0.70 | 0.64 | +9.4% |
| Feb 4, 2026 | 0.90 | 0.84 | +7.4% |
| Oct 29, 2025 | 0.68 | 0.57 | +19.5% |
| Jul 30, 2025 | 0.58 | 0.59 | −0.9% |
| May 1, 2025 | 0.85 | 0.64 | +32.6% |
| Feb 7, 2025 | 1.17 | 1.12 | +4.5% |
| Oct 30, 2024 | 0.97 | 0.93 | +4.2% |
| Jul 24, 2024 | 0.93 | 0.92 | +1.2% |
0.4%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$4a year at today's yield, before tax
+5.4%2020 to 2025
Raised–not every year
Paid per share, each year
$0.09 in 2016 → $0.24 in 2025
How safe it looks
15.9% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 8.5%
News
Fortive signals full-year 2026 adjusted EPS of $3.10-$3.14 while expecting reported revenue just north of $4.4BSeeking Alpha · Oct 28, 2026Fortive jumps to 16-mth high as earnings beat estimates, outlook raisedSeeking Alpha · Oct 28, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
47No pass
Benjamin Graham
36No pass
Philip Fisher
45No pass
Peter Lynch
26No pass
Joel Greenblatt
8No pass
Charlie Munger
40No pass
Terry Smith
39No pass
Questions about Fortive
Is Fortive a good stock to buy?
A solid business, but the price is high. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Fortive AI analysis
What does Fortive do?
Fortive Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and services professional and engineered products, software, and services worldwide. It is in Industrial - Machinery, based in Everett, WA, United States, with 10,000 employees.
Does Fortive pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 0.4% a year, about 16% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out $92.2 million in dividends.
Is Fortive stock halal?
Yes. Fortive passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 16% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Fortive stock done over the past year?
Up 30.9% over the past twelve months, to $67.89. It traded between $50.38 and $68.34, close to its high.
Who are Fortive's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Everpure, Ingersoll Rand, Otis Worldwide and Dover. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Fortive's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 11, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.