Fortive is a provider of technologies for connected workflow solutions across a range of end-markets. Co.'s segments include: Intelligent Operating Solutions, which provides workflow solutions to accelerate industrial and facility reliability and performance, as well as compliance and safety across a range of vertical end markets; Precision Technologies, which supplies instrumentation and sensing technologies to a set of vertical end markets, enabling its customers to accelerate the development, manufacture and launch of products and solutions; and Advanced Healthcare Solutions, which supplies workflow solutions to hospitals and other healthcare customers. We show 28 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our FTV shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute FTV market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing FTV market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing FTV's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of FTV versus a peer is one thing; comparing
FTV market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like FTV can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching FTV by allowing them to research the FTV market cap history. |
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