Illinois Tool Works Inc.

ITW · Industrials

$264.13
-0.22% today

What a holder would want to know before buying ITW: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $241.07 · Nov 2025High $299.60 · Feb 2026

Today’s price is 10% above the lowest point of the past year and 12% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 52% of days and more expensive on 48%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 93% of days.

2% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 4 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 38%; the longest took 23 months to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 12% below the Feb 2026 peak.

Dec 2024
−22%back in 14 months
Jan 2022
−29%back in 13 months
Feb 2020
−38%back in 6 months
Jan 2018
−34%back in 23 months
What you own

Illinois Tool Works Inc. · Industrials · Specialty Industrial Machinery · a large company worth $75.22B

Illinois Tool Works Inc. provides industrial products and equipment in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and South America. It operates through seven segments: Automotive OEM; Food…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $16.04B in 2025, with $3.07B of profit. Sales grew in 2 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 19 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$839.00M
Debt
$9.69B
Free cash flow / yr
$2.43B

Would need about 4 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $24 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $21 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 2.60% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Sep 30.

What others are doing

16 analysts: 1 say buy, 12 hold, 3 sell. Their average 12-month target is $294.57 (range $249.00–$326.00).

Insiders made 1 purchase and 2 sales in the last 6 months.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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