Is the price fair?
What ITW's price assumes
Illinois Tool Works trades at 25.9× earnings against 33.5× for the median Specialty Industrial Machinery name, cheaper than its own group.
25.9
Trailing P/E · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 33.5 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 4.64
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.8%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 3.7%
- Growth the price implies
- +9.1%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +9.1% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +4.1% a year over the last three.
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- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 18.9
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 5.00
- Industrials median P/E346 names
- 29.9
- Specialty Industrial Machinery median P/E47 names
- 33.5
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $2.92B
- Market capitalisation
- $76.0B
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +4.1%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $223.57 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $243.17 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $258.90 |
| 52-week range | $238.02 – $297.72 |
| Today | $285.53 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #6 of 44 by Smart Score