Fortive Corporation (FTV)

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Fortive Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Fortive Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $4.2 billion in fiscal 2025, down 2.8% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 34% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2018; net income was positive in 4 of 4 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Fortive Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 2.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 78% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 7 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-02 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Fortive Corporation earned about 9 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 23 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 45 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 5.2% over the year (the filed statements).

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Fortive Corporation's standing among 17 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $4.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 28% by size; a net margin of 13.9% ranks in the top 26%; revenue growth of -10.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 15% (its annual reports).

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Fortive Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Soroye, Olumide (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-08-09, 5.3 years (bottom 37% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.3 years (bottom 42%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (bottom 18%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Fortive Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $376 million against debt of $3.2 billion leaves -24.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 16% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 23.5% of revenue (top 21%); a gross margin of 63.5% (top 21%); research spending of 6.2% of revenue (bottom 23%) (its annual report).

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Fortive Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -10.6% a year over the last three filed years against -2.8% over all 10, slowing (bottom 26% of its family); the newest year grew 1.9% (bottom 38%); research spending grew -13.6% a year (bottom 3%); capital spending grew 3.1% a year (top 21%) (its annual reports). Fortive Corporation reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $3.3 billion (80%), Service at $818 million (20%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Fortive Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $4.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 21.8% above the $3.4 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 10% of its family); net income of $579 million against a prior three-year average of $818 million (bottom 43%); a net margin of 13.9% against 18.5% before (bottom 37%) (its annual reports).