Fortive cash flow statement
In fiscal 2025, Fortive's operations generated $1.08bn of cash; it spent $105m on capital projects, leaving free cash flow of $978m. It returned $92.2m in dividends and $1.61bn through buybacks.
Cash flow statement
| Fiscal year | 2014Dec 2014 | 2015Dec 2015 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMOct 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash from operations | 947 | 1,009 | 1,137 | 1,176 | 1,344 | 1,271 | 1,437 | 961 | 1,303 | 1,354 | 1,527 | 1,083 | 1,200 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 178 | 177 | 161 | 158 | 174 | 342 | 384 | 396 | 466 | 426 | 431 | 438 | 450 |
| Stock-based pay | 31 | 35 | 41 | 44 | 41 | 53 | 63 | 77 | 94 | 95 | 90 | 117 | 86 |
| Capital spending | 103 | 120 | 110 | 111 | 70 | 75 | 76 | 50 | 96 | 79 | 86 | 105 | 115 |
| Free cash flow | 844 | 889 | 1,027 | 1,065 | 1,275 | 1,197 | 1,361 | 911 | 1,207 | 1,275 | 1,441 | 978 | 1,086 |
| Free cash flow after stock pay | 813 | 854 | 986 | 1,021 | 1,234 | 1,144 | 1,298 | 834 | 1,114 | 1,181 | 1,351 | 861 | 1,000 |
| Dividends paid | 0 | 0 | 48 | 97 | 97 | 94 | 94 | 98 | 100 | 102 | 111 | 92 | 76 |
| Share buybacks | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 443 | 273 | 890 | 1,610 | 1,272 |
| Quarter | 2024 Q4Dec 2024 | 2025 Q1Mar 2025 | 2025 Q2Jun 2025 | 2025 Q3Sept 2025 | 2025 Q4Dec 2025 | 2026 Q1Apr 2026 | 2026 Q2Jul 2026 | 2026 Q3Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash from operations | 502 | 242 | 311 | 164 | 366 | 235 | 286 | 313 |
| Depreciation and amortisation | 108 | 108 | 109 | 109 | 111 | 114 | 114 | 112 |
| Stock-based pay | 23 | 23 | 23 | 51 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 21 |
| Capital spending | 23 | 21 | 37 | 29 | 30 | 27 | 28 | 30 |
| Free cash flow | 480 | 221 | 275 | 136 | 336 | 208 | 258 | 284 |
| Free cash flow after stock pay | 457 | 197 | 252 | 85 | 316 | 187 | 234 | 263 |
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