How is Illinois Tool Works (ITW) doing?

Illinois Tool Works is a company in the industrial, machinery industry, based in Glenview, IL, worth $76.0B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Middling

Illinois Tool Works shares are up 5% over the past year, 10 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Falling Knife. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 48th percentile on market beat, the 33rd on staying power and the 29th on business growth. It appears on 4 of our dashboards.

$264.13+5% in a yearWorth $76.0B

Compare with EMR · HON · ETN · DOV · AME · ESAB · IEX · IR · MMM · NDSN · PH · SNA · SWK · WAB

Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›

Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

ITW against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Illinois Tool Works +5%, the S&P 500 +16%.

ITWS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Falling Knife

LaggingErraticSlowingBought

Lagging erratically on a soft business, with buyers trying to catch it.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Falling Knife this month; Bottom Fished before that.

Also Falling Knife (55 in all): IR · ALLE · AGCO · MAT · FERG · CDNS

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Industrials / SMID, 133 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Broad industrial and small/mid-cap cyclicals — the economy beta.

ITW, past year+5%74 of 133 in the group

Rest of the group+11%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Illinois Tool Works is +5% over the past year, against +11% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 74th of 133 in Industrials / SMID.

ITWRest of the group

Best in the groupAVT Avnet+92%ARW Arrow Electronics+89%LFUS Littelfuse+65%

Worst in the groupGPK Graphic Packaging−56%APTV Aptiv−48%THO Thor Industries−39%

Its closest rivalsEMR Emerson Electric+22%HON Honeywell+5%ETN Eaton+14%DOV Dover+15%AME Ametek+36%

All cyclical stocks ›Industrials / SMID on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Illinois Tool Works typically moves 2.0% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 92% of large US stocks.

Typical day2.0%about $5.40 a share

Its usual2.0%about usual, 1.0× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5001.8×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±4.1%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−18%now 12% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks62%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.6

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 1.99%

ITW on our dashboards

Every question where Illinois Tool Works appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with ITW highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Which stocks are analysts upgrading and downgrading? Events	1Downgraded	37 of 60	Upgrades 0 · Downgrades 1 · Latest change JP Morgan: Overweight to Neutral, Oct 9
Who reports next, and what is expected? Earnings	68Steady	106 of 106	Estimate change, 1M +0.1% · Expected EPS growth +4% · Stock vs S&P, 1M −3.1 pts
Which companies raise their dividend every year? Dividends and buybacks	94Decades	27 of 60	Years raised 38 years · Growth, 5Y +7% a yr · Yield 2.5%
What is Congress trading? Who’s buying and selling	3Sold	19 of 60	Buying 1 · Selling 2 · Bought $8K

Go deeper on Stox

ITW’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

Open ITW on Stox ›All 16 types on Atlas ›Its group on Stox ›

How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see ITW’s full profile on Stox.

This page is information, not investment advice. About our data and methods ›

Full profile on Stox ›Industrial stocks ›EMR · Emerson Electric ›HON · Honeywell ›ETN · Eaton ›DOV · Dover ›