Risk factor
Very poor trading liquidity
Profitability factor
Weak growth
About
Fortive Corp. is a diversified industrial growth company, which engages in the design, development, manufacturing, and marketing of professional and engineered products, software, and services for a variety of end markets. The company is headquartered in Everett, Washington and currently employs 24,000 full-time employees. The firm designs, develops, manufactures and markets professional and engineered products, software and services for a range of end markets. The firm operates through two segments: Professional Instrumentation and Industrial Technologies. The firm's brands operate in field instrumentation, transportation, sensing, product realization, automation and specialty, and franchise distribution markets. The Professional Instrumentation segment offers essential products, software and services used to create actionable intelligence by measuring and monitoring a range of physical parameters in industrial applications, including electrical current, radio frequency signals, distance, pressure and temperature. The Industrial Technologies segment offers critical technical equipment, components, software and services for manufacturing, repair and transportation markets around the world.
Company Valuation
From both historical and forecast perspectives, the stock is fairly priced compared to similar stocks. In particular, the stock is reasonably priced on P/E, of fair value