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Fortive

Divest the 19.9% retained shares in Vontier

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced
27 Oct 2020
Due
9 Oct 2021
Delivered
19 Jan 2021
  • Deadline
  • Met
  • Late
  • Not met
  • Today

What the company said

“Fortive currently plans to divest its 19.9% retained shares in Vontier after the spin-off in a tax-efficient manner no later than twelve months after the Distribution Date.”
  • SourceFortive Form 8-K press release, 2020-10-27
  • FilingSEC filing index
  • Deadline as statedno later than twelve months after the Distribution Date
  • Deadline used9 Oct 2021, the last day of the stated period
  • TypeTransaction
  • Permanent referenceKI-C-2020-FTV-007580
    Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2020-FTV-007580/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Fortive completed the divestiture of its 19.9% retained shares in Vontier on January 19, 2021, through a debt-for-equity exchange, well before the October 9, 2021 deadline.

  • A
    Fortive 10-Q filed 2021-10-28 Regulatory filing · published 28 Oct 2021 · retrieved 12 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 9e2339c65e01
    “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” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved +2.1% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (27 Oct 2021 to 1 Nov 2021). What this measures

Checked 12 Oct 2026.

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type
Transaction other
Indicative materiality
Medium rules
Action
Divest
Deliverable
19.9% retained shares in Vontier
Target
19.9 %
Language
Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
In the company’s control
High
Specificity
High
Conditional
Yes: in a tax-efficient manner

How this entry was checked

  1. Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
  2. First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
  3. Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.

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