Fortive Corp
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $59.69, Fortive Corp (FTV) is priced for +16.8% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 26, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Fortive is a smaller company than it was a year ago: the Precision Technologies businesses were distributed to shareholders as Ralliant on June 28, 2025, leaving industrial instruments and software at about seven tenths of revenue and healthcare sterilization and workflow tools at the rest. • Capital return is the loudest signal in the numbers: 9 million shares were retired in the March quarter for 500 million dollars, roughly 3% of the diluted count, taking total repurchases since the separat
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754 institutional managers reported holding FTV in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 76 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Dodge & Cox, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 15.2M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (4.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
FTV has cut its share count 31.3% over the past five years, spending $3.72B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (10 and counting), raised 3 years straight; the current rate is $0.29 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $274.50M in dividends and $3.14B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at FTV over the trailing three years: 2025: 1 buy totaling $1.00M. 19 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
FTV's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-29 | -0.4% | -4.6% |
| 2022-07-29 | +8.3% | -9.6% |
| 2022-10-27 | -2.1% | +3.5% |
| 2024-04-25 | -5.6% | -3.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
FTV's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-06-11 (items 5.07); 2026-05-14 (items 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-03-20 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 26, 2026
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