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Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW)

NYSE / Industrials / Industrial - Machinery

Share price

271.19 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

77.23B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 13, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
11, FY2015 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

95.1% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

25.78x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

3.4% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 13.60B USDFY2016 Net income: 2.04B USDFY2017 Revenue: 14.31B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.69B USDFY2018 Revenue: 14.77B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.56B USDFY2019 Revenue: 14.11B USDFY2019 Net income: 2.52B USDFY2020 Revenue: 12.57B USDFY2020 Net income: 2.11B USDFY2021 Revenue: 14.46B USDFY2021 Net income: 2.69B USDFY2022 Revenue: 15.93B USDFY2022 Net income: 3.03B USDFY2023 Revenue: 16.11B USDFY2023 Net income: 2.96B USDFY2024 Revenue: 15.90B USDFY2024 Net income: 3.49B USDFY2025 Revenue: 16.04B USDFY2025 Net income: 3.07B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
3 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 25.78x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 25.00x and 40.00x.

Today, against the Industrial - Machinery industry (52 companies), 25.78x sits at the 36th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 20.30x to 38.40x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 95.1% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Exceptional, check the leverage" (25.0% and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting high returns on shareholders' money, which leverage can also produce.

Today, against the Industrial - Machinery industry (69 companies), 95.1% sits at the 100th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -1.6% to 16.4%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 14.44x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Industrial - Machinery industry, year by year. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 fiscal years of Illinois Tool Works Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (5 readings drawn from the statement lines Illinois Tool Works Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Illinois Tool Works Inc., and where in its filings. (3 questions for Illinois Tool Works Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Illinois Tool Works Inc.)

These are ITW’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, accession 0000049826-26-000008.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Illinois Tool Works Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

No tax rate can be read for this year: the income tax or the pre-tax income line is not filed, or pre-tax income is zero, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Return on equity95.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Return on capital employed, pre-tax38.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Return on assets19.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Gross margin52.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Operating margin26.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Net margin19.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
ITW 19.1%
AME 20.0%PH 17.0%ETN 14.9%ROP 19.4%EMR 12.7%
12.7%20.0%
Net margin: ITW against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Illinois Tool Works Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity2.86 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Current ratio1.21 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Quick ratio0.89 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Interest coverage14.44x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Altman Z-score8.23 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Net debt8.36B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Total assets 16.15BTotal liabilities 12.92BShareholders' equity 3.23BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Illinois Tool Works Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008).

Illinois Tool Works Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets16.15B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026
Total liabilities12.92B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026
Shareholders' equity3.23B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026
Cash851.0M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026
Total debt9.21B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026
Net debt8.36B
Current ratio1.21
Debt to equity2.86

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Illinois Tool Works Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings25.78x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
P/E on trailing twelve months24.43x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book24.58x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Price to sales4.94x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Enterprise value to EBIT20.78x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Enterprise value to EBITDA19.33x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Price to earnings over growth2.69 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Diluted earnings per share10.49 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Graham number51.10 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value ITW on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Illinois Tool Works Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Illinois Tool Works Inc: valuation
Share price271.19 USD
Market capitalisation77.23B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA19.33x
Graham number51.10 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY202510.49 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Aug 4, 2017: low 15.14x, median 24.33x, high 35.57x, latest 24.43x. 2,311 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Illinois Tool Works Inc

  1. AMETEK, Inc. (AME)Market cap 56.96B USD
  2. Parker-Hannifin Corporation (PH)Market cap 121.30B USD
  3. Eaton Corporation plc (ETN)Market cap 156.30B USD
  4. Roper Technologies, Inc. (ROP)Market cap 37.82B USD
  5. Emerson Electric Co. (EMR)Market cap 90.45B USD

Same industry (Industrial - Machinery) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Illinois Tool Works Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield3.4% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Free cash flow2.71B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Free cash flow margin16.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Dividend yield2.4% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Payout ratio58.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
FY2016 Free cash flow: 2.03B USDFY2016 Net income: 2.04B USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 2.10B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.69B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 2.45B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.56B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 2.67B USDFY2019 Net income: 2.52B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 2.57B USDFY2020 Net income: 2.11B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 2.26B USDFY2021 Net income: 2.69B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 1.94B USDFY2022 Net income: 3.03B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 3.08B USDFY2023 Net income: 2.96B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 2.84B USDFY2024 Net income: 3.49B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 2.71B USDFY2025 Net income: 3.07B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Illinois Tool Works Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
25.78xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
24.58xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
20.78xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.4%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Feb 13, 2026
n/a No tax rate can be read for this year: the income tax or the pre-tax income line is not filed, or pre-tax income is zero, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.
2.4%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
2.86FY2025Feb 13, 2026
1.21FY2025Feb 13, 2026
4.94xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
2.69FY2025Oct 15, 2026
8.23FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.62FY2025Feb 13, 2026
6/9FY2025Feb 13, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 11 filed fiscal years on record, FY2015 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Illinois Tool Works Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Illinois Tool Works Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202516.04B4.22B3.07B10.492.71B26.3%95.1%10-K, Feb 13, 20260000049826-26-000008
FY202415.90B4.26B3.49B11.712.84B26.8%105.2%10-K, Feb 14, 20250000049826-25-000007
FY202316.11B4.04B2.96B9.743.08B25.1%98.2%10-K, Feb 9, 20240000049826-24-000008
FY202215.93B3.79B3.03B9.771.94B23.8%98.3%10-K, Feb 10, 20230000049826-23-000008
FY202114.46B3.48B2.69B8.512.26B24.1%74.3%10-K, Feb 11, 20220000049826-22-000006
FY202012.57B2.88B2.11B6.632.57B22.9%66.3%10-K, Feb 12, 20210000049826-21-000007
FY201914.11B3.40B2.52B7.742.67B24.1%83.3%10-K, Feb 14, 20200000049826-20-000020
FY201814.77B3.58B2.56B7.602.45B24.3%78.8%10-K, Feb 15, 20190000049826-19-000021
FY201714.31B3.48B1.69B4.862.10B24.4%36.8%10-K, Feb 15, 20180000049826-18-000017
FY201613.60B3.06B2.04B5.702.03B22.5%47.8%10-K, Feb 10, 20170000049826-17-000022
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 1.9%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 4.7%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 7.0%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 3.3%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Illinois Tool Works Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.62 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Piotroski F-score6/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 13, 2026, 0000049826-26-000008
Named tests met3 of 30 Computed
Beta0.64 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 3 met, 25 not met, 2 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High return on tangibles; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(3)
  • Return on Invested Capital: No tax rate can be read for this year: the income tax or the pre-tax income line is not filed, or pre-tax income is zero, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price Tangible Book: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 3 figures could not be read on this company: Return on Invested Capital, ROIC-WACC Spread, Price Tangible Book. 2 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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