Growth Metrics

Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Change in Inventory (2016 - 2025)

Illinois Tool Works has reported Change in Inventory over the past 17 years, most recently at -$82.0 million for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Change in Inventory at -$82.0 million for Q4 2025, up 46.75% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was -$34.0 million (up 80.68% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was -$34.0 million, up 80.68%.
  • Change in Inventory for Q4 2025 was -$82.0 million at Illinois Tool Works, down from $18.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Change in Inventory for ITW hit a ceiling of $207.0 million in Q1 2022 and a floor of -$154.0 million in Q4 2024.
  • Median Change in Inventory over the past 5 years was $3.5 million (2024), compared with a mean of $16.8 million.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Change in Inventory: soared 1114.29% in 2021 and later tumbled 468.18% in 2023.
  • Illinois Tool Works' Change in Inventory stood at $85.0 million in 2021, then plummeted by 125.88% to -$22.0 million in 2022, then tumbled by 468.18% to -$125.0 million in 2023, then decreased by 23.2% to -$154.0 million in 2024, then surged by 46.75% to -$82.0 million in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Change in Inventory were -$82.0 million (Q4 2025), $18.0 million (Q3 2025), and -$7.0 million (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.