Fortive Dividend yield

Fortive is part of General Industrials business, which is part of Industrials industry. Fortive is a company from USA, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Fortive stock dividend

Fortive paid a total dividend of 99 million USD last year, for a market value of 27,913 millions (Market Cap 27,832 millions). Fortive dividend per share is 0.28 USD, and his stock market price 78.85 USD.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Fortive has a dividend yield of 0.36%, lower than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from USA. It is also lower than average of Industrials industry. This low dividend yield might has several explanations: company overpriced, expanding their business,...

In addition, you should compare Fortive stocks dividend with other General Industrials companies or other of the best USA dividend stocks list.

Fortive Dividend Payout

About the ability of Fortive to maintain his current dividend of USD 0.28 per share, an amount that accounts for 0.36%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Fortive payout on ernings is currently 8.70%, which is lower than the market average and companies of Industrials industry, which are 39.34% and 37.26% respectively. Both figures lead us to believe that there is confidence that Fortivecan maintain his current dividend.

The payout on earnings should be complemented with the payout on cash flow since it is this last amount the one which can be distributed to shareholders. Cash flow per share of Fortive is USD 3.68 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of USD 0.28, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Fortive, compared againt world market average, USA companies, Industrials industry and General Industrials sector companies.

Fortive Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Fortive's dividend stock, both in percentage and in USD, its Payout on Earnings and the number of shares (in case there is an split, number shares altered the dividend per share).

Year	Yield	USD	Paypout	Shares*
Present	0.36%	0.28	8.70%	354
2022	0.44%	0.28	11.07%	354
2021	0.37%	0.28	5.39%	358
2020	0.40%	0.28	9.79%	337
2019	0.37%	0.28	3.11%	335
2018	0.41%	0.28	8.97%	333
2017	0.39%	0.28	10.14%	347
2016	0.25%	0.14	5.07%	346

*In millions

Fortive Stock performance

Finally, last moth Fortive showed a return of 0.60% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -2.39% of Industrials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a 24.50% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for USA and General Industrials firms.