Illinois Tool Works Inc.

ITW stock score: 59/100

$274.97 · +1.78% · Scored Oct 20, 2026

Technical
62
Fundamental
56
News
44

The reading

Illinois Tool Works (ITW) scores 59 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 74% of Industrials stocks and 72% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 62, fundamentals 56.

Among the fundamentals, Return on Equity (ROE) at 100 and Earnings Quality (Annual) at 99 score highest, while Price to Book Ratio at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 62 and contrarian oscillators 34 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 44; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 23, 2026 the composite has ranged from 52 to 71, and it ends the period where it started.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward ITW’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

56

Pulling it up

  • Return on Equity (ROE)100

    Return on Equity (ROE) measures how efficiently a company generates profits from shareholder equity.

  • Earnings Quality (Annual)99

    Earnings Quality (Annual) assesses absolute profitability independent of growth, measuring whether the company is profitable, its earnings yield (earnings/market cap), profit margins, and consistency.

  • EBITDA Margins98

    EBITDA margins measure operating profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

Holding it back

  • Price to Book Ratio0

    Price-to-Book ratio compares market value to book value.

  • Debt to Equity2

    Debt-to-Equity ratio measures financial leverage by comparing total debt to shareholder equity.

  • Earnings Growth (Annual)21

    Annual earnings growth tracks year-over-year profit expansion.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

58

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • EMA 50 Cross Up100

    EMA 50 Cross Up detects when price crosses above the 50-period EMA.

  • SMA 50 Cross Up100

    SMA 50 Cross Up detects when faster averages cross above the 50-period SMA.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (20)13

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (14)13

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

  • TRIX14

    TRIX is a momentum oscillator that filters out short-term noise by triple-smoothing price data.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
44

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly571
Daily583
Weekly622
Monthly672
Quarterly662

Composite score, last 90 days

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Key facts

Market cap
$78.3B
Sector
Industrials
Industry
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Beta
0.97
Risk grade (1–10)
4
Next earnings
Oct 27, 2026

Specialty Industrial Machinery peers

CompanyMarket capScore
ETN Eaton Corporation$148.4B56
PH Parker-Hannifin$119.1B59
EMR Emerson Electric$89.5B59
CMI Cummins$73.8B56
AME AMETEK$56.7B61
ROK Rockwell Automation$47.6B54

Questions

What is ITW's stock score today?

ITW scores 59/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 20, 2026: technical 62, fundamental 56, and news sentiment 44, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is ITW a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 59 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the ITW score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Industrials ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.