Dividend Power Score
A single, comprehensive score designed to measure the true strength of a company’s dividend.
This score combines three essential pillars of dividend quality:
Consistency – Measures how reliable the dividend has been over time, focusing on payment history, stability, and the absence of cuts or suspensions.
Payability – Assesses the company’s financial ability to sustain its dividend, taking into account cash flow, earnings coverage, balance sheet strength, and overall financial health.
Growth – Evaluates the long-term growth of both the dividend and the company’s share price, highlighting businesses that consistently increase payouts while creating shareholder value.
Higher scores identify companies that have historically delivered dependable income alongside sustained dividend growth and long-term capital appreciation.
Company Overview
Fortive Corporation is a diversified industrial technology company that provides essential technologies for industrial, transportation, healthcare, and professional instrumentation markets. The company focuses on delivering workflow solutions, precision technologies, and data-driven insights that improve productivity, safety, quality, and sustainability for its customers. Fortive primarily serves industrial manufacturers, utilities, automotive and aerospace customers, healthcare providers, and field service professionals.
The company generates revenue through a portfolio of operating companies that supply hardware, software, and recurring service-based solutions. Fortive’s strategic positioning emphasizes continuous improvement through the Fortive Business System, which underpins operational excellence, innovation, and disciplined capital deployment. Fortive was formed in 2016 as a spin-off from Danaher Corporation, inheriting Danaher’s operational culture and evolving into an independent platform focused on industrial and intelligent operating solutions.
Business Operations
Fortive operates through two primary reportable segments: Intelligent Operating Solutions and Precision Technologies. The Intelligent Operating Solutions segment provides software, sensors, and services that optimize asset uptime, workflow efficiency, and safety, while Precision Technologies focuses on mission-critical sensing, fastening, and specialty technologies used in manufacturing and engineering-intensive environments.
The company maintains a mix of domestic and international operations, with revenue derived from product sales, software subscriptions, calibration services, and lifecycle maintenance offerings. Fortive controls proprietary software platforms, sensor technologies, and industrial automation assets, and operates through numerous subsidiaries including Fluke, Gordian, ASP, Tektronix, Industrial Scientific, and CenTrak. These businesses operate with a decentralized model while adhering to shared operational and financial disciplines.
Strategic Position & Investments
Fortive’s strategy centers on organic growth, recurring revenue expansion, and disciplined acquisitions in high-value industrial and software-enabled markets. The company actively invests in digital transformation, connected workflow solutions, and industrial SaaS platforms that enhance customer decision-making and operational efficiency. A significant strategic emphasis has been placed on increasing software and services penetration across its operating companies.
Major investments and acquisitions have included Gordian, which strengthened Fortive’s construction and facilities intelligence capabilities, and Advanced Sterilization Products, which expanded its healthcare footprint. Fortive has also announced plans to separate certain businesses to enhance strategic focus, reflecting its portfolio management approach and long-term value creation strategy.
Geographic Footprint
Fortive is headquartered in Everett, Washington, and operates across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The company maintains manufacturing facilities, research and development centers, and commercial operations in more than 50 countries, supporting a globally diversified revenue base.
International markets represent a substantial portion of Fortive’s sales, with particularly strong presence in Western Europe, China, and Japan. The company’s global footprint enables proximity to customers in key industrial regions and supports its strategy of localized innovation combined with global scale.
Leadership & Governance
Fortive’s leadership team emphasizes decentralized decision-making, continuous improvement, and long-term shareholder value creation, guided by the Fortive Business System. The company’s governance framework reflects its roots in Danaher’s operating philosophy, with a strong focus on accountability, operational rigor, and ethical conduct.
Key executives include:
- James A. Lico – President and Chief Executive Officer
- Charles E. McLaughlin – Chief Financial Officer
- Olumide Soroye – President, Intelligent Operating Solutions
- Scott Santi – President, Precision Technologies
- Rebecca M. Glashow – Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Fortive’s leadership team collectively drives strategy execution, capital allocation, and cultural alignment across its global operating companies.