Disposed and Discontinued Operations

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]

Discontinued Operations

5. Disposed and Discontinued Operations

Management evaluates Dover's businesses periodically for their strategic fit within its operations and may from time to time sell or discontinue certain operations for various reasons.

Disposed Operations

On March 29, 2019, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to sell Finder Pompe S.r.l ("Finder"), a wholly owned subsidiary, to Gruppo Aturia S.p.A (“Aturia”). As of March 31, 2019, Finder met the criteria to be classified as held for sale. The Company classified Finder's assets and liabilities separately on the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2019.

Based on the total consideration from the sale, net of selling costs, the Company recorded a loss on the assets held for sale of $46,946 in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings during the three months ended March 31, 2019. The loss was comprised of an impairment on assets held for sale of $21,607 and $25,339 of foreign currency translation losses reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive losses.

On April 2, 2019, Dover completed the sale of Finder to Aturia, which generated total cash proceeds of $24,218, of which $2,245 was received on March 29, 2019. The Finder business is included in the results of the Fluids segment. The sale does not represent a strategic shift that will have a major effect on operations and financial results and, therefore, did not qualify for presentation as a discontinued operation.

There were no dispositions during the nine months ended September 30, 2018.

Discontinued Operations

There were no discontinued operations for the three and nine months ending September 30, 2019.

In 2018, the Apergy businesses, as discussed in Note 2, met the criteria to be reported as discontinued operations because the spin-off was a strategic shift in business that has a major effect on the Company's operations and financial results. Therefore, the results of discontinued operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 include the historical results of Apergy prior to its distribution on May 9, 2018. The three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 included costs incurred by Dover to complete the spin-off of Apergy amounting to $0 and $46,384, respectively, reflected in selling, general and administrative expenses in discontinued operations. See Note 2 — Spin-off of Apergy Corporation for further information.

Summarized results of the Company's discontinued operations were as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30, 2018		Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
Revenue	$	—	$	403,688
Cost of goods and services	—		254,205
Gross profit	—		149,483
Selling, general and administrative expenses	—		144,114
Operating earnings	—		5,369
Other expense, net	—		349
Earnings from discontinued operations before taxes	—		5,020
Provision for income taxes	—		9,492
Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax	$	—	$	(4,472)