Fortive Corp (FTV) EPS is poised to hit 1.12 next quarter: How Investors Can Make It Count the Most?

Fortive Corp (NYSE: FTV) started the day on Thursday, with a price increase of 1.07% at $75.80, before settling in for the price of $75.00 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, FTV posted a 52-week range of $66.15-$87.10.

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In the past 5-years timespan, the Technology sector firm’s annual sales growth was 0.13%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -21.58%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 12.16%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $346.90 million, simultaneously with a float of $345.62 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $26.30 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $75.98, while the 200-day Moving Average is $76.00.

Fortive Corp (FTV) Ownership Facts and Figures

Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Scientific & Technical Instruments Industry. Fortive Corp’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.38%, in contrast to 95.32% institutional ownership. Preceding that transaction, on Nov 11 ’24, Company’s SVP – General Counsel sold 5,000 for 76.58, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 382,900. This particular insider is now the holder of 48,346 in total.

Fortive Corp (FTV) Earnings and Revenue Records

Fortive Corp’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 12.16% and is forecasted to reach 4.15 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 10.74% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -21.58% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Fortive Corp (NYSE: FTV) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Fortive Corp (FTV). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.96. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.33. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $30.20, and its Beta score is 1.15. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 4.25. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 19.42.

In the same vein, FTV’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 2.51, a figure that is expected to reach 1.12 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 4.15 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Fortive Corp (FTV)

If we take a close look at the recent performances of Fortive Corp (NYSE: FTV), its last 5-days Average volume was 3.47 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 2.04 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 48.29% While, its Average True Range was 1.35.

Raw Stochastic average of Fortive Corp (FTV) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 67.07%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 43.86% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 17.44% that was lower than 20.18% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.