NYSE:ITW - Illinois Tool Works Stock Price, Forecast & News

Illinois Tool Works trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ITW."

Illinois Tool Works announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 28th. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 31st will be given a dividend of $1.07 per share on Wednesday, January 15th. This represents a $4.28 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.41%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 30th. View Illinois Tool Works' Dividend History.

Illinois Tool Works announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback program on Friday, August 3rd 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $3,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 6.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE:ITW) posted its earnings results on Friday, October, 25th. The industrial products company reported $2.04 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.94 by $0.10. The industrial products company had revenue of $3.42 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.55 billion. Illinois Tool Works had a return on equity of 80.38% and a net margin of 17.49%. Illinois Tool Works's quarterly revenue was down 5.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $1.76 earnings per share. View Illinois Tool Works' Earnings History.

Illinois Tool Works is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 7th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Illinois Tool Works.

Illinois Tool Works issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Friday, October, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $7.55-7.85 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $7.62.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Illinois Tool Works' shares. Their forecasts range from $121.00 to $180.00. On average, they anticipate Illinois Tool Works' share price to reach $146.42 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 17.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Illinois Tool Works.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Illinois Tool Works in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Illinois Tool Works.

Headlines about ITW stock have trended positive on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Illinois Tool Works earned a daily sentiment score of 2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Illinois Tool Works.

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Illinois Tool Works' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (4.33%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.85%), Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (0.42%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.39%), Coho Partners Ltd. (0.36%) and Cerity Partners LLC (0.27%). Company insiders that own Illinois Tool Works stock include Andrew Mines, Christopher A O'herlihy, Ernest Scott Santi, John R Hartnett, Juan Valls, Michael M Larsen, Michael R Zimmerman, Randall J Scheuneman, Richard H Lenny, Steven L Martindale and Sundaram Nagarajan. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Illinois Tool Works.

ITW stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Donaldson Capital Management LLC, Sawgrass Asset Management LLC, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Millennium Management LLC, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., AMF Pensionsforsakring AB and Lockheed Martin Investment Management Co.. Company insiders that have sold Illinois Tool Works company stock in the last year include Andrew Mines, Christopher A O'herlihy, Ernest Scott Santi, John R Hartnett, Juan Valls, Michael M Larsen, Michael R Zimmerman, Randall J Scheuneman, Steven L Martindale and Sundaram Nagarajan. View Insider Buying and Selling for Illinois Tool Works.

ITW stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pictet Asset Management Ltd., State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Bartlett & Co. LLC, Cerity Partners LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, First Trust Advisors LP, Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Co and Main Street Research LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Illinois Tool Works.

Shares of ITW can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ITW stock can currently be purchased for approximately $177.27.

Illinois Tool Works has a market capitalization of $56.98 billion and generates $14.77 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $2.56 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.60 on an earnings per share basis. Illinois Tool Works employs 48,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Illinois Tool Works.

The official website for Illinois Tool Works is http://www.itw.com/.

Illinois Tool Works' mailing address is 155 HARLEM AVENUE, GLENVIEW IL, 60025. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 847-724-7500 or via email at [email protected]