Is the price fair?
What FTV's price assumes
Fortive trades at 36.1× earnings against 34.2× for the median Scientific & Technical Instruments name, more expensive than its own group.
36.1
Trailing P/E · Scientific & Technical Instruments median 34.2 · 1.06× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 4.14
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 5.1%
Free cash flow yield · Scientific & Technical Instruments median 4.1%
- Growth the price implies
- +5.3%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +5.3% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −6.3% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 2.88
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 27.7
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 4.88
- Technology median P/E376 names
- 37.0
- Scientific & Technical Instruments median P/E16 names
- 34.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $954M
- Market capitalisation
- $18.6B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −11%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −6.3%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $25.10 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $35.68 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $39.55 |
| 52-week range | $46.51 – $64.13 |
| Today | $60.25 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Scientific & Technical Instruments
Ranks #13 of 16 by Smart Score