Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW)

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Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $14 billion in fiscal 2016 to $16 billion in fiscal 2025, up 1.9% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 15% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 2.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 96% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 20 sales and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10, buying about $2 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Illinois Tool Works Inc. earned about 95 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 44 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 80 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s standing among 9 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $16 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 6% by size; a net margin of 19.1% ranks in the top 6%; revenue growth of 0.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 39% (its annual reports).

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Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is O'Herlihy, Christopher A (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-02-13, 2.7 years (bottom 21% of its family); the 25 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.8 years (top 36%); 3 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 25 people in charge now (top 7%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $851 million against debt of $6.7 billion leaves -36.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 6% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 16.9% of revenue (top 17%); a gross margin of 44.1% (top 28%); research spending of 1.9% of revenue (bottom 36%) (its annual report).

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Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 0.2% a year over the last three filed years against 1.9% over all 10, slowing (bottom 39% of its family); the newest year grew 0.9% (bottom 6%); research spending grew 3.9% a year (bottom 44%); capital spending grew 0.6% a year (bottom 39%) (its annual reports). Illinois Tool Works Inc. reported 6 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Automotive OEM at $3.3 billion, Test and Measurement and Electronics at $2.8 billion, Food Equipment at $2.7 billion, and 3 more. 5 of 6 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 23% of revenue (its annual report).

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Illinois Tool Works Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $16 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1% above the $16 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 44% of its family); net income of $3.1 billion against a prior three-year average of $3.2 billion (bottom 19%); a net margin of 19.1% against 19.8% before (bottom 19%) (its annual reports).