Business Overview

3 Months Ended

Apr. 01, 2022

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Business Overview

NOTE 1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Fortive Corporation (“Fortive,” “the Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a provider of essential technologies for connected workflow solutions across a range of attractive end-markets. Our strategic segments - Intelligent Operating Solutions, Precision Technologies, and Advanced Healthcare Solutions - include well-known brands with leading positions in their markets. Our businesses design, develop, manufacture, and service professional and engineered products, software, and services, building upon leading brand names, innovative technologies, and significant market positions. Our research and development, manufacturing, sales, distribution, service, and administrative facilities are located in more than 50 countries around the world.

We prepared the unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements included herein in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) applicable for interim periods. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations; however, we believe the disclosures are adequate to make the information presented not misleading. The consolidated condensed financial statements included herein should be read in conjunction with the audited annual consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2021 and the footnotes (“Notes”) thereto included within our 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

In our opinion, the accompanying financial statements contain all adjustments (consisting of only normal recurring accruals) necessary to fairly present our financial position as of April 1, 2022 and December 31, 2021, our results of operations and cash flows for the three month periods ended April 1, 2022 and April 2, 2021. Reclassification of certain prior year amounts have been made to conform to current year presentation.

Vontier Separation and Discontinued Operations

On October 9, 2020, we completed the separation of Vontier Corporation (“Vontier”), the entity we created to hold our former Industrial Technologies segment (the “Separation”). The accounting requirements for reporting the Vontier business as a discontinued operation were met when the Separation was completed. Accordingly, the consolidated condensed financial statements reflect the results of separation activities associated with the prior Vontier business as a discontinued operation, which was immaterial for all periods presented.

On January 19, 2021, we completed an exchange (the “Debt-for-Equity Exchange”) of 33.5 million shares of common stock of Vontier, representing all of the Retained Vontier Shares, for $1.1 billion in aggregate principal amount of indebtedness of the Company held by Goldman Sachs & Co. Interest expense and extinguishment costs related to the Debt-for-Equity Exchange during the first quarter of 2021 are included in continuing operations.

Segment Presentation

We operate and report our results in three segments, Intelligent Operating Solutions, Precision Technologies, and Advanced Healthcare Solutions, each of which is further described below.

Our Intelligent Operating Solutions segment provides leading workflow solutions to accelerate industrial and facility reliability and performance, as well as compliance and safety across a range of vertical end markets, including manufacturing, process industries, healthcare, utilities and power, communications and electronics, among others. We provide differentiated instrumentation and sensors, software and services to address our customers’ toughest workflow challenges.

Our Precision Technologies segment supplies instrumentation and sensing technologies to a broad set of vertical end markets, enabling our customers to accelerate the development, manufacture and launch of innovative products and solutions. We provide our customers with electrical test and measurement instruments and services, energetic material devices, and a broad portfolio of sensor and control system solutions.

Our Advanced Healthcare Solutions segment supplies critical workflow solutions to hospitals and other healthcare customers, enabling safer, more efficient, and higher quality healthcare. We provide hardware, consumables, software and services that optimize our customers’ most critical workflows, including instrument sterilization and device reprocessing, instrument tracking, cell therapy equipment design and manufacturing, biomedical test tools, radiation safety monitoring, end-to-end clinical productivity solutions and asset management.

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)

Foreign currency translation adjustments are generally not adjusted for income taxes as they relate to indefinite investments in non-U.S. subsidiaries.

The changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (“AOCI”) by component are summarized below ($ in millions):

	Foreign currency translation adjustments		Pension adjustments (a)			Total
For the Three Months Ended April 1, 2022:
Balance, December 31, 2021	$	(122.7)	$	(62.3)		$	(185.0)
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications, net of income taxes	(39.4)		—			(39.4)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss):
Increase (decrease)	—		0.6		(b)	0.6
Income tax impact	—		(0.1)			(0.1)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of income taxes	—		0.5			0.5
Net current period other comprehensive income (loss), net of income taxes	(39.4)		0.5			(38.9)
Balance, April 1, 2022	$	(162.1)	$	(61.8)		$	(223.9)
For the Three Months Ended April 2, 2021:
Balance, December 31, 2020	$	(54.0)	$	(87.1)		$	(141.1)
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications, net of income taxes	(34.7)		—			(34.7)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss):
Increase (decrease)	—		1.3		(b)	1.3
Income tax impact	—		(0.3)			(0.3)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of income taxes	—		1.0			1.0
Net current period other comprehensive income (loss), net of income taxes	(34.7)		1.0			(33.7)
Balance, April 2, 2021	$	(88.7)	$	(86.1)		$	(174.8)
(a) Includes balances relating to defined benefit plans, supplemental executive retirement plans, and other postretirement employee benefit plans.
(b) This component of AOCI is included in the computation of net periodic pension cost (refer to Note 12 in our most recently filed Form 10-K for additional details).

Allowances for Doubtful Accounts

All trade accounts and unbilled receivables are reported in the Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheet adjusted for any write-offs and net of allowances for credit losses. The allowances for credit losses represent management’s best estimate of the credit losses expected from our unbilled and trade accounts receivable portfolios over the life of the underlying assets. Additions to the allowances are charged to current period earnings, amounts determined to be uncollectible are charged directly against the allowances, while amounts recovered on previously written-off accounts increase the allowances.

The following is a rollforward of the aggregated allowance for credit losses related to our trade accounts receivables as of April 1, 2022 ($ in millions):

Balance, December 31, 2021	$	39.7
Provision	3.4
Write-offs	(3.6)
Foreign currency exchange and other	(0.1)
Balance, April 1, 2022	$	39.4

The allowance for unbilled receivables was immaterial for all periods presented.

Recently Issued Accounting Standard

In August 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2020-06, Debt—Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging—Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity, which amends the accounting for certain financial instruments with characteristics of liabilities and equity, including convertible instruments and contracts in an entity’s own equity. On January 1, 2022, we adopted ASU 2020-06 using a modified retrospective approach and recognized in our balance sheet, as of January 1, 2022, a net of tax adjustment to reduce Additional Paid-in Capital by $65.7 million and increase debt by $3.7 million, with a corresponding net of tax adjustment to beginning retained earnings of $62.8 million. These adjustments are related to our 0.875% Convertible Senior Notes (the “Convertible Notes”), which were the only outstanding instruments impacted by the new standard at the time of adoption.

Results for reporting periods beginning January 1, 2022 reflect the adoption of ASU 2020-06, while prior period amounts were not adjusted and continue to be reported in accordance with our historical accounting practices.

Prior to our adoption of ASU 2020-06 on January 1, 2022, we recognized the fair value of the nonconvertible debt component of our Convertible Notes subject to the cash conversion guidance as debt and attributed the residual value to the conversion feature which was recognized in APIC. Subsequent to the issuance of our Convertible Notes in February 2019, we accreted the debt discount as non-cash interest expense in our Statements of Earnings. Further, we applied the treasury stock method to our Convertible Notes when calculating earnings per share (“EPS”) in all periods prior to our adoption of ASU 2020-06. After our adoption of ASU 2020-06, we account for convertible debt instruments wholly as debt, unless a convertible instrument contains features that require bifurcation as a derivative under ASC 815 or a convertible debt instrument is issued at a substantial premium.

On January 1, 2022, we reclassified the unamortized cost basis of our outstanding Convertible Notes wholly as debt, which subsequently matured and was settled on February 15, 2022. We applied the if-converted method to all convertible instruments when calculating EPS for the three months ended April 1, 2022. As of April 1, 2022, we had no convertible instruments outstanding subject to the guidance in ASU 2020-06.