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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Machinery · CIK 0000049826
$279.24
+0.88% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$80.59B market value
From ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026 · read the filing
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS makes industrial machinery and equipment. It took in $16.04B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 19 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and debt, with growth worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by 2 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$12.0M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit
$3.49B → $3.07B
Profit margin
21.9% → 19.1%
Earnings per share
$11.86 → $10.62
Long-term debt
$6.31B → $6.68B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 13, 2026
Deteriorated: -12.1%
$3.49B to $3.07BNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
ITW rose 0.88% on the latest quote. The average Industrials company tracked here moved +0.36%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 0.5 points above its sector and 1.9 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 12% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 3% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 19 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $3.07B last year.
Barely. Sales were roughly flat, up 0.9%.
No. At its current cash flow it could clear its debt in about 2.2 years. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.25 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 58 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 57% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $3.07B and generated $3.13B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 13, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 14, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 9, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 10, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 11, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $16.04B | $15.90B | $16.11B | $15.93B | $14.46B | +0.9% |
| Cost of revenue | $8.97B | $8.86B | $9.32B | $9.43B | $8.49B | +1.3% |
| Gross profit | $7.08B† | $7.04B† | $6.79B† | $6.50B† | $5.97B† | +0.5% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 44.1% | 44.3% | 42.2% | 40.8% | 41.3% | −0.2 pts |
| Operating income | $4.22B | $4.26B | $4.04B | $3.79B | $3.48B | −1.1% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 26.3% | 26.8% | 25.1% | 23.8% | 24.1% | −0.5 pts |
| Interest expense | $292.0M | $283.0M | $266.0M | $203.0M | $202.0M | +3.2% |
| Income before tax | — | — | $3.82B | $3.84B | $3.33B | — |
| Net income | $3.07B | $3.49B | $2.96B | $3.03B | $2.69B | −12.1% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 19.1% | 21.9% | 18.4% | 19.0% | 18.6% | −2.8 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $10.62 | $11.86 | $9.88 | $9.95 | $8.61 | −10.5% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ITWILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC · this page | 8.7/10 | 5/9 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Exercised stock options — 41,431 shares at $187.86 ($7.8M)
Holds 307,719 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 22,471 shares at $286.37 ($6.4M)
Holds 285,248 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Reported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +6.1% · Gross profit +6.5% · Operating income +7.4% — against Q2 FY2025
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 370 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 67 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from ITW's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 13, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 8.7 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 14, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 8.7 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 9, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.7 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 10, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.7 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 7.3 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 12, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
8.29
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: −2.8 pts
21.9% to 19.1%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -10.5%
$11.86 to $10.62Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: +5.9%
$6.31B to $6.68BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -10.2%
$948.0M to $851.0MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -1.8%
294.0M to 288.6MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: +5.3%
$1.70B to $1.78BNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +6.1%
$4.05B to $4.30BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +6.5%
$1.78B to $1.90BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +7.4%
$1.07B to $1.15BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +7.9%
$755.0M to $815.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +10.5%
$2.59 to $2.86Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -14.9%
$7.70B to $6.55BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +6.5%
$788.0M to $839.0MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -2.3%
291.5M to 284.8MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +7.1%
$4.02B to $4.30BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +7.8%
$1.76B to $1.90BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +12.5%
$1.02B to $1.15BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +6.1%
$768.0M to $815.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +1.3 pts
25.4% to 26.7%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +7.2%
$2.67 to $2.86Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -1.0%
287.7M to 284.8MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
7 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 10% and 14%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 24 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 24 analysts publishing on this company, 1 say strong buy, 1 say buy, 13 say hold, 7 say sell and 2 say strong sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 3.2% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 25.5x — investors pay $25.5 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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Sold on the open market — 8,142 shares at $287.35 ($2.3M)
Holds 277,106 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 8,928 shares at $288.22 ($2.6M)
Holds 268,178 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,890 shares at $289.19 ($546.6K)
Holds 266,288 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 277 shares at $289.22 ($80.1K)
Holds 3,394 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 58 shares at $296.66 ($17.2K)
Holds 59,219 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 118 shares at $296.66 ($35.0K)
Holds 266,288 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 130 shares at $296.66 ($38.6K)
Holds 30,372 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 118 shares at $296.66 ($35.0K)
Holds 1,776 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 41,431 shares ($11.9M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Option Exercise.
Filed notice to sell 277 shares ($80.1K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Published results
Had a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Operating income +7.3% · Profit +9.7% · Free cash flow +6.5% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Profit margin −2.8 pts · Profit -12.1% · Earnings per share -10.5% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Profit margin −9.0 pts · Profit -29.2% · Earnings per share -28.0% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Long-term debt +19.7% · Cash -8.6% · Shares in issue -1.8% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2025
Operating margin −3.6 pts · Operating income -15.6% · Long-term debt +16.3% — against Q1 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingSigned a material agreement
Read the filingThe first 40 of 370. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-13. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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