ITW News and Press, Illinois Tool Works Inc. From 02/05/19

Illinois Tool Works ( ITW ) is one of my favorite stocks on the market. The stock is one of the best vehicles to track the US economy, thanks to the company's exposure in key cyclical markets and excellent shareholder returns of the past few years. The problem, however, is that slower econom...

Over the past 6 years, I have developed my K.I.S.S. system for investing in dividend growth stocks. The KISS system is a screen that I use each month to identify undervalued dividend growth stocks that I might consider adding to my portfolio. I post my portfolio update each quarter to show all...

In June of 2015, I started a series of articles in which I highlight the stocks from the Dividend Champions list that have the highest and the lowest Percent Above Average Yield (PAAY) over the past year and over the past five years. PAAY is a measure of how much a stock is above (high PAAY, u...

Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW )  -1.9% pre-market after BofA Merrill Lynch downgrades shares to Underperform from Neutral with a $124 price target, trimmed from $128, saying the company’s Q4 results "were not overly inspiring" and that it sees downside to consensus exp...

Well, as rough as December was, the gains on the S&P 500 in January completely erased the losses of 2018 and then some. The S&P 500 soared 7.87% this month , the biggest one month gain since October of 2015 and the best January since 1987. Hopefully this bodes well for the rest of 201...

(Source: publicdomainpictures.net ) Note that due to reader requests, I've decided to break up my weekly portfolio updates into three parts: commentary, economic update, and the new "best stocks to buy right now" series. This is to avoid excessively long articles and maximize the utility...

(Source: imgflip ) Each week I closely monitor the state of the economy because the macro fundamentals ultimately affect corporate fundamentals (revenue, earnings and cash flow growth) that determine the intrinsic value of any company, and thus eventually its share price. One of the mos...

Illinois Tool Works, Inc. (ITW) Q4 2018 Earnings Conference Call February 01, 2019 10:00 AM ET Company Participants Karen Fletcher - Vice President of Investor Relations Scott Santi - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Larsen - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial ...

Illinois Tool Works ( ITW -2.3% ) slides after reporting mixed Q4 results and guiding Q1 earnings below Wall Street expectations . More news on: Illinois Tool Works Inc., Stocks on the move, Earnings news and commentary, Read more ...

The following slide deck was published by Illinois Tool Works Inc. in conjunction with their 2018 Q4 earnings Read more ...