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David Byron Smith Jr bought $1.7M of ITW

director at ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. 6,709 shares at an average of $250.13, traded Dec 10, 2025, filed Dec 12, 2025.

Conviction score
48
Value
$1.7M
6,709 shares
Holdings after
6,709
change unknown
From 52-week low
+18%
low $210.37, close $247.21
From 52-week high
-6%
high $262.77, as of Dec 10, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $1.7M at market
    +25
  • Relative to holdings
    First purchase: no shares before this trade
    +8
  • Price context
    Near the top of the 52-week range
    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 12, 2025: +5.0%SPY +15.4% · excess -10.4%

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 0000049826-25-000061, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Dec 10, 2025GGift
Common Stock
-6,709$0.00$0116,485Dec 12, 2025
Dec 10, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stockindirect: By Trust
+6,709$250.13$1.7M6,709Dec 12, 2025
Dec 11, 2025JOther
Common Stock
-81,301$0.00$035,184Dec 12, 2025
Dec 11, 2025JOther
Common Stock
-5,990$0.00$029,194Dec 12, 2025
Dec 11, 2025JOther
Common Stockindirect: By Trust
+5,990$0.00$012,699Dec 12, 2025

Related signals

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

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
35Weak
ITWsell
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Axel Beck
Executive Vice President
$1.2M
4,223 shares
-42%
30Weak
ITWsell
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Pamela B Strobel
director
$373k
1,521 shares
-4%
35Weak
ITWsell
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Randall J Scheuneman
VP & Chief Accounting Officer
$1.8M
6,802 shares
-40%
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%
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.

David Byron Smith Jr bought $1.7M of ITW | InsiderTell