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Company snapshot — Illinois Tool Works Inc

ITW in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Illinois Tool Works makes a broad range of industrial goods across seven segments, covering automotive components, food-service equipment, welding gear, test-and-measurement tools, and construction fasteners. It sells these products to manufacturers, distributors and maintenance customers across automotive, food-equipment, construction and general industrial markets. The company is based in Glenview, Illinois, and has built its business through decades of acquisitions across these varied industrial niches.
Where it sits in the stack
ITW carries no seat in our Rubin index, the diary's ledger for the AI build-out; it sits instead within the broader industrials sector, in the specialty industrial machinery corner of our universe, alongside other diversified manufacturers outside the build-out chain.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group is not set for ITW; the comparison the market draws is with Dover, another diversified industrial manufacturer serving overlapping end markets.
Why Closelook tracks it
ITW is an S&P 500 constituent but has no Rubin seat and no Closelook score yet; the diary has quoted it once, in a strategy piece on covered-call income built around dividend aristocrats.
What the diary watches
Whether demand across its seven industrial segments holds together as manufacturing and construction cycles diverge, since one segment's slowdown rarely moves the group's overall trend.

Illinois Tool Works Inc (ITW) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for ITW, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Specialty Industrial Machinery · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Specialty Industrial Machinery · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against ITW on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.41%, quarterly · last 1.61 USD on 2026-06-30

Dividends and capital return

What ITW pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 6.44 USD per share · a 2.41% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +7.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 6.00 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.61 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-30
  • By calendar year 2023: 2.80 USD (partial) · 2024: 5.80 USD · 2025: 6.22 USD · 2026: 3.22 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-09-28

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Illinois Tool Works Inc (ITW)?

Illinois Tool Works Inc trades as ITW on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is ITW in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Illinois Tool Works Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does ITW trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -4.4% vs the 50-day and +0.2% vs the 200-day average, 11.4% below the 52-week high and +13.4% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 44 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Illinois Tool Works Inc do?

Illinois Tool Works makes a broad range of industrial goods across seven segments, covering automotive components, food-service equipment, welding gear, test-and-measurement tools, and construction fasteners. It sells these products to manufacturers, distributors and maintenance customers across automotive, food-equipment, construction and general industrial markets. The company is based in Glenview, Illinois, and has built its business through decades of acquisitions across these varied industrial niches. Closelook's peer group is not set for ITW; the comparison the market draws is with Dover, another diversified industrial manufacturer serving overlapping end markets.

Where does Illinois Tool Works Inc sit in the AI build-out?

ITW carries no seat in our Rubin index, the diary's ledger for the AI build-out; it sits instead within the broader industrials sector, in the specialty industrial machinery corner of our universe, alongside other diversified manufacturers outside the build-out chain. ITW is an S&P 500 constituent but has no Rubin seat and no Closelook score yet; the diary has quoted it once, in a strategy piece on covered-call income built around dividend aristocrats.

Does Illinois Tool Works Inc pay a dividend?

Illinois Tool Works Inc has paid 6.44 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.41% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.61 USD on 2026-06-30. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about Illinois Tool Works Inc?

Illinois Tool Works Inc appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Strategy: Covered Calls for Income — the Dividend Aristocrats Approach (2026-05-22). What Closelook said most recently: The list overlaps heavily with the consumer-staples / industrials / healthcare slow-compounders: KO, PG, JNJ, KMB, MMM, ED, ABT, MMC, EMR, ITW, and on. (Strategy, 2026-05-22). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ITW, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Strategy, “Covered Calls for Income — the Dividend Aristocrats Approach” (2026-05-22)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where ITW appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

Related in the Closelook universe

then Specialty Industrial Machinery. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.