{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"124471","rtpr_id":"nBw7R9SFFa","ticker":"FTV","exchange":"NYSE","all_tickers":["FTV"],"title":"Fortive Increases Regular Quarterly Dividend","author":"Business Wire","published_at":"2026-08-20T20:15:00.284Z","article_body":"Fortive Increases Regular Quarterly Dividend\n\nFortive Corporation (“Fortive”) (NYSE: FTV) announced today that its Board\nof Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.07 per share of\nits common stock, par value $0.01 per share, payable on September 25, 2026 to\ncommon stockholders of record on September 4, 2026. This declared dividend\nrepresents an increase of 16.7% over the prior quarterly dividend.\n\nAlthough Fortive expects to pay dividends on a quarterly basis, any subsequent\ndeclaration of dividends, including the amount, the record dates and the\npayment dates for any such future dividend payments, is subject to the\ndiscretion of the Board of Directors.\n\nABOUT FORTIVE\n\nFortive innovates essential technologies to keep our world safe and\nproductive. Fortive’s strategic segments - Intelligent Operating Solutions\nand Advanced Healthcare Solutions - include iconic inventor brands with\nleading positions in their markets. The company’s businesses design,\ndevelop, manufacture, and market products, software, and services, building on\nleading brand names, innovative technologies, and strong market positions.\nFortive is headquartered in Everett, Washington, and employs a team of more\nthan 10,000 research and development, manufacturing, sales, distribution,\nservice, and administrative team members in approximately 50 countries around\nthe world. For more information please visit: www.fortive.com\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fortive.com&esheet=54592637&newsitemid=20260820954230&lan=en-US&anchor=www.fortive.com&index=1&md5=2891e02a97ee00e71321ea14e677b8d8)\n.\n\nFORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS\n\nStatements in this release that are not strictly historical, including the\nstatements regarding the expected future timing of any dividend payments and\nthe Company's expectations on paying dividends at any level in the future, and\nany other statements identified by their use of words like “expect,” or\nother words of similar meaning are “forward-looking” statements within the\nmeaning of the federal securities laws. There are a number of important\nfactors that could cause dividend payments and dividend schedule to differ\nmaterially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking\nstatements and you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking\nstatements. These factors include, among other things: deterioration of or\ninstability in the economy, the markets we serve, international trade policies\nand deteriorating trade relations with other countries, including imposition\nof tariffs and retaliatory tariffs between United States and China and other\ncountries, responsive economic nationalism, trade restrictions, and enhanced\nregulation, impact of any prolonged government shutdown, the financial\nmarkets, geopolitical conditions and conflicts including in the Middle East\nand in Ukraine, security breaches, data exfiltration, or other disruptions of\nour information technology systems, supply chain constraints, our ability to\nadjust purchases and manufacturing capacity to reflect market conditions,\nreliance on sole sources of supply, contractions or lower growth rates and\ncyclicality of markets we serve, competition, changes in industry standards\nand governmental regulations, our ability to recruit and retain key employees,\nour ability to successfully identify, consummate, integrate and realize the\nanticipated value of appropriate acquisitions or otherwise effectively deploy\nour capital, our ability to develop and successfully market new products,\nsoftware, and services and expand into new markets, the potential for improper\nconduct by our employees, agents or business partners, contingent liabilities\nrelating to acquisitions and divestitures, impact of changes to tax laws, our\ncompliance with applicable laws and regulations and changes in applicable laws\nand regulations, risks relating to international economic, geopolitical,\nincluding war and sanctions, legal, compliance and business factors, risks\nrelating to potential impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets,\ncurrency exchange rates, tax audits and changes in our tax rate and income tax\nliabilities, the impact of our debt obligations on our operations, litigation\nand other contingent liabilities including intellectual property and\nenvironmental, health and safety matters, our ability to adequately protect\nour intellectual property rights, risks relating to product, service or\nsoftware defects, product liability and recalls, risks relating to product\nmanufacturing, our relationships with and the performance of our channel\npartners, commodity costs and surcharges, adverse effects of restructuring\nactivities, our separation into two independent, publicly-traded companies,\nrisk related to tax treatment of our prior separations, impact of our\nindemnification obligation to Ralliant and Vontier, impact of changes to U.S.\nGAAP, labor matters, and disruptions relating to man-made and natural\ndisasters and climate change. Additional information regarding the factors\nthat may cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking\nstatements is available in our SEC filings, including our Annual Report on\nForm 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 and Quarterly Reports on Form\n10-Q for the subsequent quarters. These forward-looking statements speak only\nas of the date of this release, and Fortive does not assume any obligation to\nupdate or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new\ninformation, future events and developments or otherwise.\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260820954230/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260820954230/en/)\n\nChristina Jones\n\nVice President, Investor Relations\n\nFortive Corporation\n\n6920 Seaway Boulevard\n\nEverett, WA 98203\n\nTelephone: (425) 446-5000\n\nEmail: investors@fortive.com (mailto:investors@fortive.com)\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nBw7R9SFFa","title":"Fortive Increases Regular Quarterly Dividend","author":"Business Wire","ticker":"FTV","created":"2026-08-20T20:15:00.284Z","tickers":["FTV"],"exchange":"NYSE","article_body":"Fortive Increases Regular Quarterly Dividend\n\nFortive Corporation (“Fortive”) (NYSE: FTV) announced today that its Board\nof Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.07 per share of\nits common stock, par value $0.01 per share, payable on September 25, 2026 to\ncommon stockholders of record on September 4, 2026. This declared dividend\nrepresents an increase of 16.7% over the prior quarterly dividend.\n\nAlthough Fortive expects to pay dividends on a quarterly basis, any subsequent\ndeclaration of dividends, including the amount, the record dates and the\npayment dates for any such future dividend payments, is subject to the\ndiscretion of the Board of Directors.\n\nABOUT FORTIVE\n\nFortive innovates essential technologies to keep our world safe and\nproductive. Fortive’s strategic segments - Intelligent Operating Solutions\nand Advanced Healthcare Solutions - include iconic inventor brands with\nleading positions in their markets. The company’s businesses design,\ndevelop, manufacture, and market products, software, and services, building on\nleading brand names, innovative technologies, and strong market positions.\nFortive is headquartered in Everett, Washington, and employs a team of more\nthan 10,000 research and development, manufacturing, sales, distribution,\nservice, and administrative team members in approximately 50 countries around\nthe world. For more information please visit: www.fortive.com\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fortive.com&esheet=54592637&newsitemid=20260820954230&lan=en-US&anchor=www.fortive.com&index=1&md5=2891e02a97ee00e71321ea14e677b8d8)\n.\n\nFORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS\n\nStatements in this release that are not strictly historical, including the\nstatements regarding the expected future timing of any dividend payments and\nthe Company's expectations on paying dividends at any level in the future, and\nany other statements identified by their use of words like “expect,” or\nother words of similar meaning are “forward-looking” statements within the\nmeaning of the federal securities laws. There are a number of important\nfactors that could cause dividend payments and dividend schedule to differ\nmaterially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking\nstatements and you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking\nstatements. These factors include, among other things: deterioration of or\ninstability in the economy, the markets we serve, international trade policies\nand deteriorating trade relations with other countries, including imposition\nof tariffs and retaliatory tariffs between United States and China and other\ncountries, responsive economic nationalism, trade restrictions, and enhanced\nregulation, impact of any prolonged government shutdown, the financial\nmarkets, geopolitical conditions and conflicts including in the Middle East\nand in Ukraine, security breaches, data exfiltration, or other disruptions of\nour information technology systems, supply chain constraints, our ability to\nadjust purchases and manufacturing capacity to reflect market conditions,\nreliance on sole sources of supply, contractions or lower growth rates and\ncyclicality of markets we serve, competition, changes in industry standards\nand governmental regulations, our ability to recruit and retain key employees,\nour ability to successfully identify, consummate, integrate and realize the\nanticipated value of appropriate acquisitions or otherwise effectively deploy\nour capital, our ability to develop and successfully market new products,\nsoftware, and services and expand into new markets, the potential for improper\nconduct by our employees, agents or business partners, contingent liabilities\nrelating to acquisitions and divestitures, impact of changes to tax laws, our\ncompliance with applicable laws and regulations and changes in applicable laws\nand regulations, risks relating to international economic, geopolitical,\nincluding war and sanctions, legal, compliance and business factors, risks\nrelating to potential impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets,\ncurrency exchange rates, tax audits and changes in our tax rate and income tax\nliabilities, the impact of our debt obligations on our operations, litigation\nand other contingent liabilities including intellectual property and\nenvironmental, health and safety matters, our ability to adequately protect\nour intellectual property rights, risks relating to product, service or\nsoftware defects, product liability and recalls, risks relating to product\nmanufacturing, our relationships with and the performance of our channel\npartners, commodity costs and surcharges, adverse effects of restructuring\nactivities, our separation into two independent, publicly-traded companies,\nrisk related to tax treatment of our prior separations, impact of our\nindemnification obligation to Ralliant and Vontier, impact of changes to U.S.\nGAAP, labor matters, and disruptions relating to man-made and natural\ndisasters and climate change. Additional information regarding the factors\nthat may cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking\nstatements is available in our SEC filings, including our Annual Report on\nForm 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 and Quarterly Reports on Form\n10-Q for the subsequent quarters. These forward-looking statements speak only\nas of the date of this release, and Fortive does not assume any obligation to\nupdate or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new\ninformation, future events and developments or otherwise.\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260820954230/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260820954230/en/)\n\nChristina Jones\n\nVice President, Investor Relations\n\nFortive Corporation\n\n6920 Seaway Boulevard\n\nEverett, WA 98203\n\nTelephone: (425) 446-5000\n\nEmail: investors@fortive.com (mailto:investors@fortive.com)\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026"},"type":"article","timestamp":"2026-08-20T20:15:00.352053479Z","server_sent_at_ms":1787256900352},"received_at":"2026-08-20T20:15:00.402Z","source_url":"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260820954230/en/"},"analysis":{"id":"113439","press_release_id":"124471","analysis_json":{"industry":{"label":"Industrial Conglomerates","sector":"Industrials"},"redFlags":[],"eventType":"dividend","narrative":"Fortive's Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.07 per share, representing a 16.7% increase over the prior quarterly dividend.\n\nThe dividend is payable on September 25, 2026 to common stockholders of record at the close of business on September 4, 2026.\n\nFuture dividend declarations remain subject to the discretion of the Board.","sentiment":"bullish","agentHooks":{"shouldPost":false,"suggestedAngle":"Fortive raises quarterly dividend by 16.7% to $0.07 per share."},"keyFigures":{"customDimensions":{"dividend_per_share":0.07,"dividend_increase_percent":"16.7%"}},"quotedText":"","namedEntities":{"people":[{"name":"Christina Jones","role":"Vice President, Investor Relations"}],"products":[],"companies":[{"name":"Fortive Corporation","ticker":"FTV"}],"dollarAmounts":[{"amount":"$0.07","context":"regular quarterly cash dividend per share"}]},"materialImpact":{"score":2,"reasoning":"A 16.7% increase in the quarterly dividend signals management's confidence in cash flow, but it is a routine capital allocation update rather than a binary event or major strategic shift."},"tickerRelevance":{"others":[],"primary":"FTV"},"globalImportance":25,"audienceRelevance":25,"eventTypeSecondary":[],"importanceComponents":{"tickerTier":"mid-large-cap","eventGravity":"dividend_increase","sectorWeight":"industrials"}},"event_type":"dividend","event_type_secondary":null,"sentiment":"bullish","material_impact_score":2,"narrative":"Fortive's Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.07 per share, representing a 16.7% increase over the prior quarterly dividend.\n\nThe dividend is payable on September 25, 2026 to common stockholders of record at the close of business on September 4, 2026.\n\nFuture dividend declarations remain subject to the discretion of the Board.","key_figures":{"customDimensions":{"dividend_per_share":0.07,"dividend_increase_percent":"16.7%"}},"named_entities":{"people":[{"name":"Christina Jones","role":"Vice President, Investor Relations"}],"products":[],"companies":[{"name":"Fortive Corporation","ticker":"FTV"}],"dollarAmounts":[{"amount":"$0.07","context":"regular quarterly cash dividend per share"}]},"model_name":"glm-4.7","prompt_hash":"sha256:727b4b9429a443af","schema_hash":"sha256:05005c02d9cffac9","created_at":"2026-08-20T20:47:58.653Z","global_importance":25,"audience_relevance":25,"importance_components":{"tickerTier":"mid-large-cap","eventGravity":"dividend_increase","sectorWeight":"industrials"}},"durationMs":null,"modelName":"glm-4.7"}}