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David Byron Smith Jr bought $175k of ITW

director at ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. 635 shares at an average of $275.20, traded Dec 9, 2024, filed Dec 11, 2024.

Conviction score
21
Value
$175k
635 shares
Holdings after
121,811
+1% from before
From 52-week low
-
no price yet
From 52-week high
-
no price yet

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $175k at market
    +11
  • Relative to holdings
    Under 1% of holdings (0.5%)
    -5
  • Price context
    No price history yet
    0
  • Cluster
    No other insider buying within 14 days
    0
  • Repeat buying
    First buy in 90 days
    0
  • Track record
    Too few past buys to judge (0 with prices)
    0

What happened after comparable buys

Same side and tier, against the S&P 500, at 1, 3 and 6 months. Shown to Pro users; the whole table is on the backtest page.

Price around the trade, and since

From a quarter before the trade to today. The arrow is the trade, the circle the day the filing reached EDGAR, which is the first day anyone outside could act; the dotted line is the S&P 500 rebased to that day's close.

ITWOct 9, 2026 · close 264.13
Since filing Dec 11, 2024: +1.7%SPY +31.1% · excess -29.5%

Daily candles, adjusted for splits and dividends. Green arrows are insider buys, red are sells, sized by value; the dashed line is the close on the filing day, the dotted line SPY rebased to it.Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™

Rows in this filing

Every transaction in Form 4 0001478669-24-000013, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Dec 9, 2024GGift
Common Stock
-635$0.00$0121,176Dec 11, 2024
Dec 9, 2024POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+635$275.20$175k121,811Dec 11, 2024

Related signals

Other insiders at ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
22Weak
ITWbuy
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
David Byron Smith Jr
director
$210k
872 shares
+1%
50Moderate
ITWsell 2
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Michael M Larsen
SVP & CFO
$11M
41,472 shares
-45%
53Moderate
ITWsell 2
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Christopher A O'Herlihy
President & CEO
$13M
48,453 shares
-47%
30Weak
ITWsell
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Ernest Scott Santi
Non-Executive Chairman
$19M
73,453 shares
-22%
30Weak
ITWsell
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Ernest Scott Santi
Non-Executive Chairman
$18M
70,000 shares
-21%
35Weak
ITWsell
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Mary Katherine Lawler
SVP & Chief HR Officer
$3.2M
11,647 shares
-31%

Not investment advice. Scores and forward returns are decision support built from public SEC filings and past prices; they describe what happened after comparable filings, not what will happen after this one. Do your own research and size your risk.

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