Growth Metrics

Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Return on Assets (2016 - 2025)

Illinois Tool Works has reported Return on Assets over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.19% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Assets at 0.19% for Q4 2025, down 4.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.19% (down 4.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.2%, down 3.0%.
  • Return on Assets for Q4 2025 was 0.19% at Illinois Tool Works, up from 0.19% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Assets for ITW hit a ceiling of 0.23% in Q4 2024 and a floor of 0.14% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Assets over the past 5 years was 0.19% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.19%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Assets: grew 3bps in 2021 and later decreased -4bps in 2025.
  • Illinois Tool Works' Return on Assets stood at 0.17% in 2021, then grew by 16bps to 0.2% in 2022, then decreased by -3bps to 0.19% in 2023, then rose by 18bps to 0.23% in 2024, then decreased by -16bps to 0.19% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Assets were 0.19% (Q4 2025), 0.19% (Q3 2025), and 0.21% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.