Illinois Tool Works Stock Price Patterns
| ITW Stock | USD 298.23 1.37 0.46% |
Momentum 74
Buy Stretched
Oversold | Overbought |
Quarterly Earnings Growth 0.073 | EPS Estimate Next Quarter 2.5569 | EPS Estimate Current Year 11.2618 | EPS Estimate Next Year 12.1174 | Wall Street Target Price 275.9375 |
Using Illinois Tool hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of Illinois Tool Works from the perspective of Illinois Tool response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards Illinois Tool using Illinois Tool's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards Illinois using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of Illinois Tool's stock price.
Illinois Tool Short Interest
An investor who is long Illinois Tool may also wish to track short interest. As short interest increases, investors should be becoming more worried about Illinois Tool and may potentially protect profits, hedge Illinois Tool with its derivative instruments, or be ready for some potential downside.
200 Day MA 254.7168 | Short Percent 0.0275 | Short Ratio 6.07 | Shares Short Prior Month 8.3 M | 50 Day MA 261.3004 |
Illinois Tool Works Hype to Price Pattern
Investor biases related to Illinois Tool's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Illinois. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Illinois can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Illinois Tool Works. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Some investors profit by finding stocks that are overvalued or undervalued based on market sentiment. The correlation of Illinois Tool's market sentiment to its price can help taders to make decisions based on the overall investors consensus about Illinois Tool.
Illinois Tool Implied Volatility | 0.24 |
Illinois Tool's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Illinois Tool Works stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Illinois Tool's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Illinois Tool stock will not fluctuate a lot when Illinois Tool's options are near their expiration.
The fear of missing out, i.e., FOMO, can cause potential investors in Illinois Tool to buy its stock at a price that has no basis in reality. In that case, they are not buying Illinois because the equity is a good investment, but because they need to do something to avoid the feeling of missing out. On the other hand, investors will often sell stocks at prices well below their value during bear markets because they need to stop feeling the pain of losing money.
Illinois Tool after-hype prediction price | USD 299.72 |
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.
Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current Illinois contract
Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Illinois Tool Works will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.015% per day over the life of the 2026-05-15 option contract. With Illinois Tool trading at USD 298.23, that is roughly USD 0.0447 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating Illinois Tool's daily price movement you should consider acquiring Illinois Tool Works options at the current volatility level of 0.24%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
Check out Illinois Tool Basic Forecasting Models to cross-verify your projections. Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Illinois Tool's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
Illinois Tool After-Hype Price Density Analysis
As far as predicting the price of Illinois Tool at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in Illinois Tool or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of Illinois Tool, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
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Illinois Tool Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility
In the context of predicting Illinois Tool's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on Illinois Tool's historical news coverage. Illinois Tool's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 298.23 and 301.21, respectively. We have considered Illinois Tool's daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models compare with traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
Illinois Tool is very steady at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of Illinois Tool Works is based on 3 months time horizon.
Illinois Tool Stock Price Outlook Analysis
Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as Illinois Tool is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Illinois Tool backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with Illinois Tool, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
| Expected Return | Period Volatility | Hype Elasticity | Related Elasticity | News Density | Related Density | Expected Hype |
0.38 | 1.49 | 1.49 | 0.88 | 9 Events / Month | 6 Events / Month | In about 9 days |
| Latest traded price | Expected after-news price | Potential return on next major news | Average after-hype volatility | |
298.23 | 299.72 | 0.50 |
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Illinois Tool Hype Timeline
On the 17th of February 2026 Illinois Tool Works is traded for 298.23. The entity has historical hype elasticity of 1.49, and average elasticity to hype of competition of 0.88. Illinois is anticipated to increase in value after the next headline, with the price projected to jump to 299.72 or above. The average volatility of media hype impact on the company the price is about 38.11%. The price increase on the next news is projected to be 0.5%, whereas the daily expected return is currently at 0.38%. The volatility of related hype on Illinois Tool is about 64.05%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 299.11. The company reported the last year's revenue of 16.04 B. Total Income to common stockholders was 3.07 B with profit before taxes, overhead, and interest of 7.07 B. Considering the 90-day investment horizon the next anticipated press release will be in about 9 days. Check out Illinois Tool Basic Forecasting Models to cross-verify your projections.Illinois Tool Related Hype Analysis
Having access to credible news sources related to Illinois Tool's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict Illinois Tool's future price movements. Getting to know how Illinois Tool's peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how Illinois Tool may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
| HypeElasticity | NewsDensity | SemiDeviation | InformationRatio | PotentialUpside | ValueAt Risk | MaximumDrawdown | |||
| EMR | Emerson Electric | (3.66) | 10 per month | 2.22 | 0.08 | 3.43 | (3.47) | 11.44 | |
| CMI | Cummins | 21.23 | 8 per month | 2.28 | 0.13 | 2.87 | (2.50) | 15.60 | |
| HWM | Howmet Aerospace | 2.67 | 6 per month | 1.33 | 0.11 | 3.56 | (2.29) | 7.17 | |
| CSX | CSX Corporation | 0.50 | 9 per month | 0.92 | 0.14 | 2.27 | (2.04) | 5.63 | |
| TRI | Thomson Reuters | (0.39) | 8 per month | 0.00 | (0.28) | 1.74 | (3.85) | 18.17 | |
| ROP | Roper Technologies | (7.59) | 9 per month | 0.00 | (0.28) | 1.91 | (4.19) | 12.33 | |
| AME | Ametek Inc | 3.20 | 10 per month | 0.77 | 0.15 | 1.87 | (1.34) | 6.22 | |
| CP | Canadian Pacific Railway | 2.65 | 8 per month | 1.10 | 0.13 | 2.54 | (1.98) | 7.63 |
Illinois Tool Additional Predictive Modules
Most predictive techniques to examine Illinois price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for Illinois using various technical indicators. When you analyze Illinois charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.| Cycle Indicators | ||
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About Illinois Tool Predictive Indicators
The successful prediction of Illinois Tool stock price could yield a significant profit to investors. But is it possible? The efficient-market hypothesis suggests that all published stock prices of traded companies, such as Illinois Tool Works, already reflect all publicly available information. This academic statement is a fundamental principle of many financial and investing theories used today. However, the typical investor usually disagrees with a 'textbook' version of this hypothesis and continually tries to find mispriced stocks to increase returns. We use internally-developed statistical techniques to arrive at the intrinsic value of Illinois Tool based on analysis of Illinois Tool hews, social hype, general headline patterns, and widely used predictive technical indicators.
We also calculate exposure to Illinois Tool's market risk, different technical and fundamental indicators, relevant financial multiples and ratios, and then comparing them to Illinois Tool's related companies. | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (projected) | Dividend Yield | 0.0204 | 0.0225 | 0.0248 | 0.0243 | Price To Sales Ratio | 4.92 | 4.73 | 4.49 | 4.71 |
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