Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Aug 11, 2026

Fortive Corp (FTV)

A forensic read on Fortive Corp built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

5.3

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

34.7

P / E (ttm)

9.0%

ROE

$18.6B

Market cap

0.39%

Dividend yield

1.9%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Fortive Corp earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 5.2, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

6.4%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 6.4% in the latest fiscal year and steady — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

174% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $1.7B to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 174% of free cash flow. More than free cash flow generated — and beyond operating cash too, so the extra is coming from debt or cash reserves, which isn't sustainable indefinitely. Counting the $117M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 186%.

-13%

FY2024→FY2025

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~13% in FY2025 (from FY2024). It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$4.16B

Revenue Growth YoY+1.9%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-10.6%

Net Margin13.9%

Free Cash Flow$978.1M

Return on Equity9.0%

Debt / Equity0.50x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.