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Ernest Scott Santi sold $12M of ITW

Chairman at ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. 41,431 shares at an average of $287.09, traded Aug 19, 2026, filed Aug 21, 2026.

Warning score
38
Value
$12M
41,431 shares
Holdings after
266,288
-13% from before
From 52-week low
+20%
low $235.06, close $282.42
From 52-week high
-4%
high $295.41, as of Aug 19, 2026

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $11.9M at market
    +25
  • Share of holdings sold
    Sold 13% of holdings
    +5
  • Cluster
    2 insiders selling within 14 days
    +8
  • 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 Aug 21, 2026: -5.8%SPY +1.9% · excess -7.7%

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 0001307581-26-000016, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Aug 19, 2026MOption exercise
Common Stock
+41,431$187.86$7.8M307,719Aug 21, 2026
Aug 19, 2026SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-22,471$286.37$6.4M285,248Aug 21, 2026
Aug 19, 2026SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-8,142$287.35$2.3M277,106Aug 21, 2026
Aug 19, 2026SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-8,928$288.22$2.6M268,178Aug 21, 2026
Aug 19, 2026SOpen-market sale
Common Stock
-1,890$289.19$547k266,288Aug 21, 2026
Aug 19, 2026MOption exercise
Employee Stock Optionderivative
-41,431$0.00$0124,295Aug 21, 2026

Related signals

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

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
32Weak
ITWsell 2
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Matteo C. Pigozzo
VP & Chief Accounting Officer
$80k
277 shares
-8%
51Moderate
ITWbuy
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Jennifer F. Scanlon
director
$200k
806 shares
+95%
50Moderate
ITWsell 3
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Mary Katherine Lawler
SVP & Chief HR Officer
$5.0M
17,279 shares
-38%
50Moderate
ITWsell 3
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Axel Beck
Executive Vice President
$1.2M
4,223 shares
-42%
50Moderate
ITWsell 3
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
Ernest Scott Santi
Chairman
$49M
167,345 shares
-39%
48Moderate
ITWbuy
ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC
David Byron Smith Jr
director
$1.7M
6,709 shares
-
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%

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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