Fortive designs, develops, services, manufactures and markets professional and engineered products, software and services. Co.'s segments are: Professional Instrumentation, which provides products, software and services, used to create actionable intelligence by measuring and monitoring physical parameters in industrial applications, including electrical current, radio frequency signals, distance, pressure, temperature, turbidity, radiation, and hazardous gases, and used to provide critical sterilization and disinfection solutions; and Industrial Technologies, which provides critical technical equipment, components, software and services for manufacturing, repair and transportation markets.
When researching a stock like Fortive, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from FTV Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for FTV stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. |