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Ernest Scott Santi sold $19M of ITW

Non-Executive Chairman at ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. 73,453 shares at an average of $264.67, traded Feb 20, 2025, filed Feb 24, 2025.

Warning score
30
Value
$19M
73,453 shares
Holdings after
260,224
-22% from before
From 52-week low
-
no price yet
From 52-week high
-
no price yet

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $19.4M at market
    +25
  • Share of holdings sold
    Sold 22% 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 24, 2025: +5.5%SPY +32.9% · excess -27.5%

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 0001876104-25-000004, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Feb 20, 2025MOption exercise
Common Stock
+73,453$163.36$12M333,677Feb 24, 2025
Feb 20, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-9,089$263.60$2.4M324,588Feb 24, 2025
Feb 20, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-48,195$264.61$13M276,393Feb 24, 2025
Feb 20, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-16,169$265.44$4.3M260,224Feb 24, 2025
Feb 20, 2025MOption exercise
Employee Stock Optionderivative
-73,453$0.00$00Feb 24, 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
$18M
70,000 shares
-21%
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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