Buyback yield (TTM)
7.21%
Shareholder yield (TTM)
7.69%
5Y share count change
-11.0%
Buyback spend (TTM)
$1.25B
Cumulative buybacks
$4.70B
Key takeaways
- Fortive (FTV) repurchased about $1.25B of stock over the trailing twelve months.
- Diluted share count is down 11.0% over the last ~5 fiscal years — buybacks are net-shrinking the share base.
- TTM buyback ÷ stock-based-comp ratio of 11.32× — repurchases more than cover SBC dilution.
- TTM repurchases used about 141% of free cash flow remaining after dividends.
Dividend & buyback yield over time for Fortive (FTV)
Stacked annual yields — buyback yield (TTM cash repurchases ÷ market cap) plus dividend yield from the same fiscal-year-end key-metrics period — show how total cash return per dollar of equity has evolved.
Diluted vs basic shares (annual) for Fortive (FTV)
Diluted weighted-average shares are the EPS denominator — a falling count means buybacks are outpacing SBC dilution.
Year-over-year change in diluted shares for Fortive (FTV)
Green is fewer shares vs the prior fiscal year (net repurchase); red is growth (dilution). The earliest year shown has no prior year to compare.
Cash buyback spend over time for Fortive (FTV)
Latest: $1.61B
Overview
In 2025, Fortive (FTV) buyback spend totalled $1.61B – surged 81.0% year-over-year.
$1.61B stands as the all-time-high annual buyback spend, posted in 2025, against a low of $0.00 during 2012.
Fortive Buyback Spend 2025: $1.61B
Fortive posted buyback spend of $1.61B in 2025, surged 81.0% from 2024. This figure represents the highest annual value in the available history.
Fortive Buyback Spend 2024: $889.60M
In 2024, Fortive reported buyback spend of $889.60M, surged 226.0% from 2023.
Fortive Buyback Spend 2023: $272.90M
Fortive buyback spend in 2023 was $272.90M, plunged 38.4% below 2022.
Fortive Buyback Spend 2022: $442.90M
Fortive buyback spend in 2022 was $442.90M.
Fortive Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00
Fortive buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.
See more financial history for Fortive (FTV).
Buyback, SBC & dilution history
Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.
| 2025 | $1.61B | $116.80M | $1.49B | 9.22% | 0.32B | -9.5% | |
| 2024 | $889.60M | $109.20M | $780.40M | 4.57% | 0.35B | -0.8% | |
| 2023 | $272.90M | $113.30M | $159.60M | 1.40% | 0.36B | -1.4% | |
| 2022 | $442.90M | $93.80M | $349.10M | 2.59% | 0.36B | +2.4% | |
| 2021 | $0.00 | $77.40M | −$77.40M | — | 0.35B | -1.9% | |
| 2020 | $0.00 | $62.60M | −$62.60M | — | 0.36B | +5.6% | |
| 2019 | $0.00 | $61.40M | −$61.40M | — | 0.34B | -3.1% | |
| 2018 | $1.48B | $50.80M | $1.43B | 10.39% | 0.35B | -0.5% | |
| 2017 | $0.00 | $48.60M | −$48.60M | — | 0.35B | +1.5% | |
| 2016 | $0.00 | $45.30M | −$45.30M | — | 0.35B | +0.6% | |
| 2015 | $0.00 | $35.20M | −$35.20M | — | 0.35B | 0.0% | |
| 2014 | $0.00 | $30.80M | −$30.80M | — | 0.35B | 0.0% | |
| 2013 | $0.00 | $28.80M | −$28.80M | — | 0.35B | 0.0% | |
| 2012 | $0.00 | $28.60M | −$28.60M | — | 0.35B | — |
- 2025$1.61B
- 2024$889.60M
- 2023$272.90M
- 2022$442.90M
- 2021$0.00
- 2020$0.00
- 2019$0.00
- 2018$1.48B
- 2017$0.00
- 2016$0.00
- 2015$0.00
- 2014$0.00
- 2013$0.00
- 2012$0.00
Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Fortive (FTV)
Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: 11.32×.
Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Fortive (FTV)
How Fortive splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.
Sector peers by buyback spend
Companies in the same sector as Fortive, ranked by their latest buyback spend.
| $7.55B | |
| $5.19B | |
| $2.68B | |
| $1.86B | |
| $1.14B | |
| $1.13B | |
| $50.00M | |
| $0.00 |
- $7.55B
- $5.19B
- $2.68B
- $1.86B
- $1.14B
- $1.13B
- $50.00M
- $0.00
Buyback capacity (TTM)
Free cash flow minus dividends paid versus actual TTM repurchases — the headroom bar shows how much of post-dividend FCF is still being deployed elsewhere.
Headroom $887.90M (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).
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