Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Illinois Tool Works Inc. is classed by the SEC under General Industrial Machinery & Equipment (industry code 3560), based in Glenview, IL. In its latest annual figures on file, for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, it reported revenue of $16 billion and a profit of $3.1 billion (its filed statements).
vs its business-model standard
Three tenses, nine metrics. Unseen metrics stay unseen; the grade never fakes a number. Proxy era: provisional values, marked. Weighed as a product business: prior from its industry code (SEC 3560, General Industrial Machinery & Equipment); the filing read can change it. All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
The grade, in three tenses
Headline 5.9 out of ten, 9 of 9 metrics filed: past 6.5 out of ten, present 6.9 out of ten, future 3.9 out of ten. The past asks what it actually did, the present what it is doing right now, the future what it is set up to do next.
The nine metrics
- Surviving crises (past): 6.1 out of ten. No warning events in its filings since 2017. 61st percentile among 9 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Track record (past): 5.6 out of ten. +1.9% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10. 56th percentile among 9 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Shareholder treatment (past): 8.9 out of ten. Share count shrank 2.0% a year. 96% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 14 sales, 2 purchases. 89th percentile among 9 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Financial health (present): 6.9 out of ten. ROE 95%: 95¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 80%: owes 80¢ per asset dollar. 69th percentile among 9 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Industry position (present): 7.6 out of ten. top 24% of 9 in its family; net margin 19.1%. 76th percentile among 9 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Leadership (present): 6.0 out of ten. top 40% of 7 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2024. 60th percentile among 7 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-09).
- Room to expand (future): 4.9 out of ten. bottom 49% of 9 in its family for room to expand. 49th percentile among 9 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Growth drivers (future): 3.2 out of ten. bottom 32% of 9 in its family for growth drivers. 32nd percentile among 9 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Expectations vs reality (future): 2.7 out of ten. bottom 27% of 8 in its family for expectations against reality. 27th percentile among 8 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
The filing record
Newest annual report: Form 10-K filed 2026-02-13 for the period ended 2025-12-31 (on EDGAR). Newest quarterly report: Form 10-Q filed 2026-08-06 for the period ended 2026-06-30 (on EDGAR). Newest results release: Form 8-K filed 2026-07-28 (on EDGAR). Newest filing: Form 4, 2026-08-21. Filings on record since 1994. Read from EDGAR 2026-10-12.
Where the revenue comes from
By geography: United States 46%, EMEA 26%, Asia Pacific 19%, Canada and Mexico 7%, South America 2%. As tagged in its annual report (Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-13).
Who runs it
O'Herlihy, Christopher A (President & CEO); Santi, Ernest Scott (Non-Executive Chairman); Beck, Axel (Executive Vice President); Carbonell, Javier Gracia (Executive Vice President); Escoe, T. Kenneth (Executive Vice President); Hartzell, Patricia A. (Executive Vice President); Silva, Guilherme De Figueiredo (Executive Vice President); Szafranski, Sharon (Executive Vice President); Thibeault, Mark A. (Executive Vice President); Larsen, Michael M (SVP & CFO); and 15 more. 25 officers and directors have filed their own trades in the last fifteen months, names and titles as filed with the SEC, through 2026-09-30.
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