FTV

Fortive Corporation ·NYSE·Industrials
61.53 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
58.0%
Brown Bear Score
63.3%
Business Conviction Score
65.7%
Position Health Score
0.8%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +31.7% · range 46.72–64.09

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 8.3%
OCF / assets 9.2%
FCF / revenue 26.0%
Gross margin 63.2%
ROIC 7.6%
Forward P/E 18.9

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +41.1pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-27 · consensus EPS 0.71

Q1 23 revenue: 1.46bnQ1 23 net income: 173.60mQ1 23 EPS: 0.37Q2 23 revenue: 1.53bnQ2 23 net income: 209.00mQ2 23 EPS: 0.44Q2 23Q3 23 revenue: 1.49bnQ3 23 net income: 218.00mQ3 23 EPS: 0.46Q4 23 revenue: 1.58bnQ4 23 net income: 265.20mQ4 23 EPS: 0.56Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 1.52bnQ1 24 net income: 207.40mQ1 24 EPS: 0.44Q2 24 revenue: 1.55bnQ2 24 net income: 195.10mQ2 24 EPS: 0.41Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 1.53bnQ3 24 net income: 221.60mQ3 24 EPS: 0.47Q4 24 revenue: 1.62bnQ4 24 net income: 208.80mQ4 24 EPS: 0.45Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 1.47bnQ1 25 net income: 171.90mQ1 25 EPS: 0.38Q2 25 revenue: 1.52bnQ2 25 net income: 166.60mQ2 25 EPS: 0.49Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 1.03bnQ3 25 net income: 55.00mQ3 25 EPS: 0.16Q2 26 revenue: 1.07bnQ2 26 net income: 136.40mQ2 26 EPS: 0.44Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.16–0.56, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-04-03 1.07bn -27.5% 136.40m 0.44 0.70 +8.0% 2026-04-30
2025-09-26 1.03bn -33.1% 55.00m 0.16 0.68 +17.9% 2025-10-29
2025-06-27 1.52bn -2.2% 166.60m 0.49 2025-07-30
2025-03-28 1.47bn -3.3% 171.90m 0.38 2025-05-01

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±4.3%
On an ordinary two days ±1.2% — filings move it 3.5× as much
Direction 2 up, 9 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +12.0% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-26: price -2.1%Q1 23 revenue +6.1% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-26: price -2.6%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +4.3% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-26: price +3.0%Q3 23 revenue +2.6% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-25: price -7.3%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +4.4% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-24: price -5.6%Q2 24 revenue +1.7% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-24: price -8.7%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +2.7% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-30: price -4.2%Q1 25 revenue -3.3% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-01: price -3.1%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue -2.2% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-30: price -5.9%Q3 25 revenue -33.1% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-29: price +4.3%Q3 25Q2 26 revenue -27.5% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-04-30: price -4.4%

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-04-03 2026-04-30 -27.5% -4.4% -5.8%
2025-09-26 2025-10-29 -33.1% +4.3% +3.9%
2025-06-27 2025-07-30 -2.2% -5.9% -2.5%
2025-03-28 2025-05-01 -3.3% -3.1% -0.4%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 312.8M as at 2026-04-03
Change over 1 year -31.6%
Change over 3 years -33.9%
Public float $18.20bn as at 2025-06-27 (10-K)

Counts are restated for the 1:1 split of 2025-06-30, which would otherwise read as a share issuance.

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyAt Support Zone
Reference band 59.61 — 61.41
Protective stop 56.12 (Atr, 7.2% risk)
Support 60.21 (4 touches, 2.2% away)
Resistance 62.82 (2.1% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 2.1% below 62.82, where sellers have turned up before, and 2.2% above 60.21, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 4 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 7.2% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 5/15/29 (56% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud eventFresh up breakout 2d ago
Cloud thickness10% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 61.02 to 61.16. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -1.2%
63 days +2.0%
126 days +1.4%
252 days +30.7%
Below 252d high4.0%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway The share price is close to the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is going sideways. The gap between the two has been widening. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width8.8% of price
Recent tightest7.6% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 52.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.15×
Band 58.36 — 63.74

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 9% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 58.48–64.092026-07-082026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

FTV: no binary-event flag. Near IV 40%, far IV 34% (ratio 1.19), implied move 5.0%.

Implied volatility 40% near (9d) · 34% far (100d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.19× near/far
Historical volatility 34%
Implied vs historical 1.17×
Implied move ±5.0% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.59×
Skew Put Skew (1.95×)
Call wall 90.00 (+46.2% away)
Put wall 50.00 (-18.8% away)
Gamma pin 90.00
  • Term structure inverted (near 40% IV vs far 34% IV, ratio 1.19)

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs more for the next few weeks than for the next few months. Traders usually pay up like that when they know something is coming soon — results, a court ruling, a regulatory decision. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 5.0% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 39.5/100; Negative Rotation.

Rotation health 39.5
Rotation strength 67.1
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 88.4 91.8
Stock vs SPY Improving 84.6 114.1
Sector vs SPY Improving 87.2 105.9

Direction of travel: North-West / early recovery

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 6/9 (+15.0)
  • Altman Z-score 5.16 (+8.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 63.2% (+15.9)
  • ROIC quality: 7.6% (+2.2)
  • FCF margin quality: 26.0% (+17.4)
  • ROIC improving by 3.1 pts (+2.0)
  • FCF margin improving by -11.4 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.043) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.04 -> -0.04) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (0.09) (+3.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.69 (+2.7)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 0.7% (+7.4)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 0.4% (+1.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram acceleration 0.33 (+4.0)
  • Track 1: MACD line/signal repair quality (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope improving (+1.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 54.7, 5-day change +4.7 (+2.9)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 1.2% (+0.7)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 1.2% (+4.0)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 6.1% (+2.7)
  • Track 1: constructive pullback zone (+15.0)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.59 (+3.3)
  • Regime convergence: SUPPORT_RESISTANCE_BOUNCE confidence 75.6/100 (STRONG) (+15.1)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.33x average)
  • Track 1: bearish DI spread (-7.2)
  • Track 1: weak/falling ADX (19.7, flat)
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.06)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -0.2%
  • Gross margin improving by -0.9 pts (+-3.0)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.