shares of fortive corp ftv inched 049 higher to 6627 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 016 to 397127 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 012 to 3239425 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains fortive corp closed 351 short of its 52week high 6978 which the company reached on february 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as emerson