Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)
Illinois Tool Works (ITW) has 17 years of Return on Invested Capital data on record, last reported at 0.34% in Q4 2025.
- For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 12.0% year-over-year to 0.34%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.34%, down 12.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.31%, 1.0% down from the prior year.
- Return on Invested Capital reached 0.34% in Q4 2025 per ITW's latest filing, down from 0.49% in the prior quarter.
- Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 0.79% in Q3 2023 and bottomed at 0.29% in Q1 2021.
- Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 0.5%, with a median of 0.47% recorded in 2025.
- Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: grew 15bps in 2022, then fell -22bps in 2024.
- A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.36% in 2021, then rose by 22bps to 0.43% in 2022, then dropped by -5bps to 0.41% in 2023, then increased by 11bps to 0.46% in 2024, then fell by -26bps to 0.34% in 2025.
- Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Invested Capital were 0.34% in Q4 2025, 0.49% in Q3 2025, and 0.51% in Q2 2025.