ITW Illinois Tool Works
Industrials · Industrial Machinery & Supplies & Components · close $272.28 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
Illinois Tool Works (ITW) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 48/100 (grade D), ranking #40 of 202 in Industrials. Its strongest pillars are profitability (79) and cash flow (63); its weakest is growth (29). TTM revenue growth is 4.3% and operating margin 26.5%.
Data as of .
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · 50| Consensus score (1–5) (3.8%) | derived | 0 |
| 90-day net rating shift (3.8%) | derived | 84 |
Growth
weight 30.83% · 29| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 4.3% | 25 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | -3.2% | 23 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.2%) | 1.5% | 49 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% · 79| Operating margin (9.9%) | 26.5% | 94 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (8.6%) | 0.5% | 61 |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% · 41| Net debt / EBITDA (9.9%) | 1.67× | 38 |
| Current ratio (4.9%) | 1.11 | 22 |
| Interest coverage (3.7%) | 14.95× | 76 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% · 63| FCF margin (6.2%) | 16.9% | 79 |
| FCF yield (6.2%) | 3.5% | 46 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% · 42| P/E (inverted) (6.2%) | 24.69× | 63 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.2%) | 5.18× | 20 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 55.5 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 268.07 / 268.03 · crossed up 1d ago |
| 200-day SMA | 269.44 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 1.01× |
| 20-day return | 1.8% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITRating break: House Rating below 60
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax · Gross profit: Revenue − CostOfRevenue · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestExpenseNonoperating · D&A: Depreciation · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted).
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FAQ
- What is ITW's House Rating?
- ITW scores 48 out of 100 (grade D) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #40 of 202 Industrials stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about ITW?
- ThetaGrade's analyst-sentiment pillar for ITW scores 50/100 against its sector peers, which we read as mixed. This is our own derived score; we do not republish individual analyst ratings, counts or targets.
- When does ITW report earnings next?
- ITW's next earnings report is estimated for about 2026-10-23 (window 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-28), based on its past SEC 8-K earnings filings. This is an estimate, not a company-confirmed date.
- Is ITW a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology