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Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Competitors

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$256.63 -0.88 (-0.34%)
Closing price 08/7/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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ITW vs. AIT, AOS, DCI, DE, DOV, GGG, IR, ITT, OI, and XYL

Should you be buying Illinois Tool Works stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Illinois Tool Works include Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT), A. O. Smith (AOS), Donaldson (DCI), Deere & Company (DE), Dover (DOV), Graco (GGG), Ingersoll Rand (IR), ITT (ITT), O-I Glass (OI), and Xylem (XYL).

Illinois Tool Works vs. Its Competitors

Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW) and Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT) are both large-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Illinois Tool Works pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Applied Industrial Technologies pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Illinois Tool Works pays out 52.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Applied Industrial Technologies pays out 18.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Illinois Tool Works has raised its dividend for 55 consecutive years and Applied Industrial Technologies has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Illinois Tool Works is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

79.8% of Illinois Tool Works shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.5% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Illinois Tool Works shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Applied Industrial Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Illinois Tool Works presently has a consensus price target of $259.33, indicating a potential upside of 1.05%. Applied Industrial Technologies has a consensus price target of $285.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.11%. Given Applied Industrial Technologies' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Applied Industrial Technologies is more favorable than Illinois Tool Works.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Illinois Tool Works
3 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.83
Applied Industrial Technologies
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, Illinois Tool Works had 29 more articles in the media than Applied Industrial Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Illinois Tool Works and 9 mentions for Applied Industrial Technologies. Applied Industrial Technologies' average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Illinois Tool Works' score of 1.03 indicating that Applied Industrial Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Illinois Tool Works
26 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Applied Industrial Technologies
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Illinois Tool Works has a net margin of 21.31% compared to Applied Industrial Technologies' net margin of 8.64%. Illinois Tool Works' return on equity of 90.89% beat Applied Industrial Technologies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Illinois Tool Works21.31% 90.89% 19.17%
Applied Industrial Technologies 8.64%22.01%12.83%

Illinois Tool Works has higher revenue and earnings than Applied Industrial Technologies. Illinois Tool Works is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Applied Industrial Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Illinois Tool Works$15.90B4.71$3.49B$11.4122.49
Applied Industrial Technologies$4.50B2.23$385.76M$9.9626.47

Illinois Tool Works has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Industrial Technologies has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Illinois Tool Works beats Applied Industrial Technologies on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ITW vs. The Competition

MetricIllinois Tool WorksMACH IndustryIndustrials SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$75.06B$12.86B$7.58B$20.70B
Dividend Yield2.33%23.76%4.57%3.67%
P/E Ratio22.4921.3324.9628.65
Price / Sales4.714.2598.3457.34
Price / Cash22.1816.6728.0723.59
Price / Book23.293.944.294.32
Net Income$3.49B$524.02M$797.27M$995.66M
7 Day Performance1.87%0.93%1.02%1.91%
1 Month Performance-0.37%2.35%1.88%-0.54%
1 Year Performance7.03%38.61%33.59%14.76%

Illinois Tool Works Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ITW
Illinois Tool Works
4.5599 of 5 stars
$256.63
-0.3%
$259.33
+1.1%
+8.3%$75.06B$15.90B22.4944,000Positive News
Dividend Increase
AIT
Applied Industrial Technologies
3.7225 of 5 stars
$273.87
+0.6%
$285.00
+4.1%
+36.8%$10.43B$4.48B27.516,500Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
AOS
A. O. Smith
4.7271 of 5 stars
$71.15
-1.3%
$77.14
+8.4%
-12.0%$10.11B$3.79B19.8212,700Positive News
DCI
Donaldson
3.7474 of 5 stars
$71.94
+0.0%
$70.00
-2.7%
+1.6%$8.39B$3.65B24.1514,000Positive News
DE
Deere & Company
4.3244 of 5 stars
$510.38
-1.4%
$515.50
+1.0%
+46.5%$138.22B$51.72B24.6975,800Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
DOV
Dover
4.742 of 5 stars
$185.28
-0.7%
$213.92
+15.5%
+0.8%$25.41B$7.75B11.1824,000
GGG
Graco
4.294 of 5 stars
$84.53
-0.1%
$94.50
+11.8%
+6.1%$14.01B$2.11B29.984,300
IR
Ingersoll Rand
4.5665 of 5 stars
$88.07
-0.2%
$100.92
+14.6%
-12.6%$35.53B$7.24B43.6021,000
ITT
ITT
4.2299 of 5 stars
$162.50
+0.6%
$173.25
+6.6%
+29.3%$12.78B$3.63B25.8211,700Trending News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
OI
O-I Glass
4.9071 of 5 stars
$14.41
-1.1%
$17.20
+19.4%
+22.1%$2.23B$6.51B-11.4221,000Insider Trade
Options Volume
XYL
Xylem
4.2027 of 5 stars
$132.41
-0.1%
$149.29
+12.7%
+13.1%$32.22B$8.56B35.5923,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision

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