Some Facts on Fortive Shares

By Tamara Parker • Wednesday, February 01 15:00 • Permanent Link

During the afternoon session, Fortive moved -2.7%, compared to 0.7% for the S&P 500.

Fortive Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and services professional and engineered products, software, and services worldwide. Based in Everett, United States the company has 18,000 full time employees and a market cap of $23,415,013,548. Fortive currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 0.4% per year.

The company is now trading -9.37% away from its average analyst target price of $73.02 per share. The 17 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $63 to $87, and on average give Fortive a rating of buy.

Over the last year, FTV shares have gone down by -5.0%, which represents a difference of 7.4% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $71.78 per share and its 52 week low is $52.47. Fortive's dwindling revenues call into question the strength of its business.

Date Reported	Revenue ($ MM)	Cost of Revenue ($ MM)	Gross Margins (%)	YoY Growth (%)
2021-12-31	5,255	2,248	57.23	1.67
2020-12-31	4,634	2,026	56.29	11.95
2019-12-31	7,320	3,640	50.28	n/a

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