Illinois Tool Works has grown revenue 0.23% a year over three years and 3.3% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 3.0%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: +0.23% (Specialty Industrial Machinery median +7.7%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +3.3%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +3.0%, earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders. Years of annual history on file: 19, FY2007 to FY2025, as filed.

ITWIllinois Tool Works

Industrials

$264.03+2.1% 1Y

$264.03

$238.0252 weeks$297.72

Is it growing?

Mixed

Neither accelerating nor breaking down: nothing decisive, though operating margin widening (+0.5 points).

1 good, 2 neutral

Revenue trend+4% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +3% a year.

Earnings trend−3% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing slower than revenue, so the growth is costing something.

Margin direction+0.5 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 26.5% now against 26.0% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 30, 2026.

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is ITW growing?

Illinois Tool Works has grown revenue 0.23% a year over three years and 3.3% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 3.0%.

+0.23%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Specialty Industrial Machinery median +7.7% · growing slowly · compounded from fiscal-year columns as filed

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +3.3%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · +0.23% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +3.0%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue +0.23% · earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders
Years of annual history on file: 19
Years of annual history on file · FY2007 to FY2025, as filed