ITW News and Press, Illinois Tool Works Inc. From 12/12/19

Introduction As much as I or anyone else would like to be a long-term buy-and-hold investor, there are always curveballs being thrown that make one review and rethink one's previous decisions. This happened recently as I was reviewing the ten stocks that make up my core holdings. Most of...

Over the past twelve months, the shares of Illinois Tool Works ( ITW ) are up about 38%, and this has put the company on my radar. I decided to look in on this so-called "dividend aristocrat" to see if the company is still a good buy. I'll leap right to the point. It's not. The shares are over...

Introduction Welcome to my monthly update for my dividend growth portfolio. This article series covers my investing journey as a father of two towards my eventual retirement. Any specific stocks or amounts are particular to my self-directed 401k plan. The goal of my portfolio is to gene...

As we push deeper into December, small-cap stocks and mid-cap stocks could begin marching higher in line with the January effect, a period during which large cap typically lags as institutional investors use the year's fresh slate to restructure portfolios for greater returns. Although the Rus...

Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Analysts Expect 9.28% To 19.88% Aristocrat Net Gains By December 2020 Four of the ten top Aristocrats by yield were verified as being among these top ten gainers for the coming year based on analyst 1-year target prices. (They are tinted gray in the chart bel...

Source Introduction This article is a follow-up to a series of articles I recently wrote about how to avoid losses and profit from sentiment cycles. Part one of the series "Ignore Sentiment Cycles At Your Own Risk" explained what sentiment cycles are, and how even the stocks of high-...

The last decade has seen a remarkable shift in the industrial sector. At the beginning of the decade, players within the sector seemed to believe in the diversity and scale of the industrial conglomerate, but by the end of the decade, companies were actually getting smaller, adopting contin...

Thesis Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc ( LECO ) is a new Dividend Champion having raised the dividend for 25 consecutive years. The company is a mid-cap stock that is likely unknown to most investors unless they are welders. Despite the relative obscurity of the company, it has trailing 10-y...

At the beginning of October, I wrote the article 5 Industrial Stocks Worth Adding To Your Watchlist in which I suggested that investors should keep an eye on 3M ( MMM ), Eaton ( ETN ), Honeywell ( HON ), Illinois Tool Works ( ITW ), and Parker-Hannifin ( PH ). During the month of October E...

Overview In this article I present an analysis of a modified list of the Dividend Champions. I analyze all stocks in the list except the Dividend Kings. I track the Kings separately due to their long-term success in growing dividends. You can read my recent analysis update on the Dividend ...