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Fortive Corporation (FTV)

NYSE / Technology / Hardware, Equipment & Parts

Share price

57.78 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

17.45B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 25, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
11, FY2014 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

6.8% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

33.21x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

5.1% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 5.38B USDFY2016 Net income: 872.3M USDFY2017 Revenue: 5.76B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.04B USDFY2018 Revenue: 6.45B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.91B USDFY2019 Revenue: 4.56B USDFY2019 Net income: 738.9M USDFY2020 Revenue: 4.63B USDFY2020 Net income: 1.61B USDFY2021 Revenue: 5.25B USDFY2021 Net income: 608.4M USDFY2022 Revenue: 5.83B USDFY2022 Net income: 755.2M USDFY2023 Revenue: 3.91B USDFY2023 Net income: 865.8M USDFY2024 Revenue: 4.08B USDFY2024 Net income: 832.9M USDFY2025 Revenue: 4.16B USDFY2025 Net income: 579.2M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 33.21x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 25.00x and 40.00x.

Today, against the Hardware, Equipment & Parts industry (47 companies), 33.21x sits at the 34th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 27.74x to 71.43x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 6.8% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of capital" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns below the usual cost of the capital employed.

Today, against the Technology sector (220 companies), 6.8% sits at the 44th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.2% to 17.5%.

Is it safe

Net debt to EBITDA was 2.53x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Elevated" (2.50x to 4.00x), on lines set by credit-analyst convention.

No peer distribution is published for net debt to EBITDA today; the year-by-year comparison uses the filed annual figures.

Year by year against peers
Whether Fortive Corporation's return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Technology sector, year by year. (FY2018 to FY2025, 8 fiscal years of Fortive Corporation with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Fortive Corporation's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Fortive Corporation)
What could explain it
What in Fortive Corporation's filed statements could explain the movements. (6 readings drawn from the statement lines Fortive Corporation filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Fortive Corporation, and where in its filings. (5 questions for Fortive Corporation)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Fortive Corporation's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Fortive Corporation)

These are FTV’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, accession 0001659166-26-000007.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Fortive Corporation: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax6.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Return on equity9.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Return on capital employed, pre-tax7.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Return on assets4.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Gross margin63.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Operating margin17.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Net margin13.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
FTV 13.9%
TRMB 11.8%TDY 14.6%CLS 6.7%TEL 10.7%FLEX 3.1%
3.1%14.6%
Net margin: FTV against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Fortive Corporation: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.51 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Current ratio0.71 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Quick ratio0.58 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Interest coverage
Why n/a

The interest line is filed as a negative amount (net interest income, or a sign convention), so coverage is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Altman Z-score3.34 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Net debt2.93B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Total assets 11.74BTotal liabilities 5.28BShareholders' equity 6.45BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Fortive Corporation owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007).

Fortive Corporation: balance sheet position
Total assets11.74B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Total liabilities5.28B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Shareholders' equity6.45B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Cash375.5M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Total debt3.31B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026
Net debt2.93B
Current ratio0.71
Debt to equity0.51
  • Interest cover: FY2025: The interest line is filed as a negative amount (net interest income, or a sign convention), so coverage is not computed.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Fortive Corporation: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings33.21x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
P/E on trailing twelve months34.28x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book3.00x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Price to sales4.65x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Enterprise value to EBIT30.91x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Enterprise value to EBITDA19.23x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Diluted earnings per share1.73 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Graham number27.48 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value FTV on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Fortive Corporation today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Fortive Corporation: valuation
Share price57.78 USD
Market capitalisation17.45B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA19.23x
Graham number27.48 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20251.73 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Jul 27, 2017: low 6.90x, median 25.79x, high 47.71x, latest 34.28x. 2,317 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Fortive Corporation

  1. Trimble Inc. (TRMB)Market cap 14.22B USD
  2. Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (TDY)Market cap 28.74B USD
  3. Celestica Inc. (CLS)Market cap 39.76B USD
  4. TE Connectivity Ltd. (TEL)Market cap 61.66B USD
  5. Flex Ltd. (FLEX)Market cap 36.39B USD

Same industry (Hardware, Equipment & Parts) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Fortive Corporation: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield5.1% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Free cash flow978.1M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Free cash flow margin23.5% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Dividend yield0.4% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Payout ratio15.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
FY2016 Free cash flow: 1.03B USDFY2016 Net income: 872.3M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 1.07B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.04B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 1.27B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.91B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 1.20B USDFY2019 Net income: 738.9M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 1.36B USDFY2020 Net income: 1.61B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 911.1M USDFY2021 Net income: 608.4M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 1.21B USDFY2022 Net income: 755.2M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 1.27B USDFY2023 Net income: 865.8M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 1.44B USDFY2024 Net income: 832.9M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 978.1M USDFY2025 Net income: 579.2M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Fortive Corporation: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
33.21xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.00xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
30.91xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
5.1%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
6.8%FY2025Feb 25, 2026
0.4%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.51FY2025Feb 25, 2026
0.71FY2025Feb 25, 2026
4.65xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
3.34FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.89FY2025Feb 25, 2026
6/9FY2025Feb 25, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 11 filed fiscal years on record, FY2014 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Fortive Corporation filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Fortive Corporation: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20254.16B720.2M579.2M1.73978.1M17.3%9.0%10-K, Feb 25, 20260001659166-26-000007
FY20244.08B716.3M832.9M2.361.44B17.6%8.2%10-K, Feb 25, 20250001659166-25-000024
FY20233.91B574.0M865.8M2.431.27B14.7%8.4%10-K, Feb 27, 20240001659166-24-000046
FY20225.83B987.4M755.2M1.581.21B16.9%7.8%10-K, Feb 28, 20230001659166-23-000080
FY20215.25B812.8M608.4M1.23911.1M15.5%6.4%10-K, Mar 1, 20220001659166-22-000054
FY20204.63B539.4M1.61B3.381.36B11.6%18.0%10-K, Feb 26, 20210001659166-21-000062
FY20194.56B443.9M738.9M1.481.20B9.7%10.0%10-K, Feb 27, 20200001659166-20-000071
FY20186.45B645.3M2.91B6.191.27B10.0%44.2%10-K, Feb 28, 20190001659166-19-000085
FY20175.76B1.14B1.04B1.871.07B19.9%27.6%10-K, Feb 28, 20180001659166-18-000100
FY20165.38B1.06B872.3M1.581.03B19.7%32.5%10-K, Feb 28, 20170001659166-17-000091
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -2.8%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -4.4%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 1.0%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -0.5%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Fortive Corporation: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.89 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Piotroski F-score6/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, 0001659166-26-000007
Named tests met1 of 30 Computed
Beta0.91 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 1 met, 28 not met, 1 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
High return on tangibles
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Cash-covered dividend. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(4)
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: The interest line is filed as a negative amount (net interest income, or a sign convention), so coverage is not computed.
  • Dividend Streak: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.
  • Price Tangible Book: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 4 figures could not be read on this company, among them PEG Ratio, Interest Coverage, Dividend Streak. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 1 named test comes back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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