shares of fortive corp ftv inched 023 higher to 7891 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 070 to 446771 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 054 to 3512336 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains fortive corp closed 019 short of its 52week high 7910 which the company achieved on august 7th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as emerson electric co emr fell 048 to 9604 keysight technologies inc keys fell 015 to 15667 and mettlertoledo international inc mtd fell 077 to 124524 trading volume 18 m remained 179765 below its 50day average volume of 20 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use