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Ernest Scott Santi sold $18M of ITW

Non-Executive Chairman at ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. 70,000 shares at an average of $263.30, traded Feb 19, 2025, filed Feb 21, 2025.

Warning score
30
Value
$18M
70,000 shares
Holdings after
260,224
-21% from before
From 52-week low
-
no price yet
From 52-week high
-
no price yet

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $18.4M at market
    +25
  • Share of holdings sold
    Sold 21% of holdings
    +5
  • Cluster
    No other insider selling within 14 days
    0
  • Exercise and sell
    Shares came from an option exercise in the same filing
    -15

What happened after comparable sells

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 Feb 21, 2025: +4.4%SPY +32.3% · excess -27.9%

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 0001307581-25-000006, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Feb 19, 2025MOption exercise
Common Stock
+70,000$163.36$11M330,224Feb 21, 2025
Feb 19, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-6,545$262.20$1.7M323,679Feb 21, 2025
Feb 19, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-37,075$263.08$9.8M286,604Feb 21, 2025
Feb 19, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-26,380$263.88$7.0M260,224Feb 21, 2025
Feb 19, 2025MOption exercise
Employee Stock Optionderivative
-70,000$0.00$073,453Feb 21, 2025

Related signals

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

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
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%
21Weak
ITWbuy
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
David Byron Smith Jr
director
$175k
635 shares
+1%
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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