Growth Metrics

Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Cash from Investing Activities (2016 - 2025)

Illinois Tool Works has reported Cash from Investing Activities over the past 17 years, most recently at -$221.0 million for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Cash from Investing Activities at -$221.0 million for Q4 2025, down 88.89% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was -$521.0 million (down 261.81% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was -$521.0 million, down 261.81%.
  • Cash from Investing Activities for Q4 2025 was -$221.0 million at Illinois Tool Works, down from -$116.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Cash from Investing Activities for ITW hit a ceiling of $294.0 million in Q3 2024 and a floor of -$808.0 million in Q4 2021.
  • Median Cash from Investing Activities over the past 5 years was -$92.0 million (2025), compared with a mean of -$108.1 million.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Cash from Investing Activities: crashed 1182.54% in 2021 and later soared 385.44% in 2024.
  • Illinois Tool Works' Cash from Investing Activities stood at -$808.0 million in 2021, then surged by 115.72% to $127.0 million in 2022, then plummeted by 194.49% to -$120.0 million in 2023, then grew by 2.5% to -$117.0 million in 2024, then plummeted by 88.89% to -$221.0 million in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Cash from Investing Activities were -$221.0 million (Q4 2025), -$116.0 million (Q3 2025), and -$92.0 million (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.