Trade of the SELL ITW · Shelley M Capito
Illinois Tool Works Inc
Deliberate position with a committee link
| Inside their committee's jurisdiction |
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32/32 |
| Isolated decision, not a bulk rebalance |
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12/22 |
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Small, thinly-followed company
Nobody needs inside information to buy a mega-cap.
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3/10 |
| Committee chair or ranking member |
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8/8 |
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A name they had never held before
A first purchase is a decision; the ninth purchase of the same holding is a standing order.
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8/8 |
| Member's own account |
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0/8 |
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Unusually large for this member
Against their own median trade, not an absolute threshold - and capped, because trades beyond 3x did worse, not better.
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0/6 |
| Position size |
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0/3 |
| Leveraged instrument (option) |
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0/3 |
A high grade is not an allegation. Every input is public, and buying into an industry you work on daily is ordinary expertise. What the trade actually returned is deliberately excluded from this score and shown separately below.
It is also not a forecast. Measured across every settled trade, A-graded ones did not beat E-graded ones to any significant degree — the method page prints the table. This score says a trade looks like a decision rather than administration, and nothing more.
The filing it came from
filed in 27 days Within the 30-day notification window.
No matching purchase on file. This member has no earlier disclosed purchase of ITW in this account, so the position was almost certainly opened before these records begin in 2019. About 45% of sales are in this situation.
This is a sale, and the strategy does not act on it. It records the member closing a position; it is not a short signal and not an instruction to sell. Exiting when members disclose selling, rather than at twelve months, cut in-remit alpha from +6.76% to +3.57% — a cost of 6.50 points on the trades it changed. See the method.
This filing disclosed 12 transactions in total, of which 10 share this trade date (17 Jan 2025).
Filed 13 Feb 2025 · source PDF
Price
52-week range $236.58 – $297.32. The marker is the entry: the first market open after this filing became public.
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Illinois Tool Works Inc. provides industrial products and equipment in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and South America. It operates through seven segments: Automotive OEM; Food Equipment; Test & Measurement and Electronics; Welding; Polymers & Fluids; Construction Products; and Specialty Products. The Automotive OEM segment offers plastic and metal components, fasteners, and assemb…
| Sector | Industrials |
| Industry | Specialty Industrial Machinery |
| Analyst range | $249 – $350 |
| Employees | 43,000 |
| Instrument | ST |
| Jurisdiction tags | industrials |
Inside this member's remit. Their committees cover defenseenergyhealthcareindustrialsmaterialstechnologytelecomtransportutilities
Expressing this with options
An illustration, not a recommendation: the nearest listed expiry to a twelve-month horizon, struck near the money. Chains are live — Yahoo publishes no historical chains, so this is priced today, not when the filing was made, and the move it describes may already have happened.
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Outcome
| Held | This trade | S&P 500 | Alpha |
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| 1m | — | — | — |
| 3m | — | — | — |
| 6m | — | — | — |
| 12m 1yr | — | — | — |
| 18m | — | — | — |
| 24m | — | — | — |
| 36m | — | — | — |
| 48m | — | — | — |
| 60m 5yr | — | — | — |
Measured from the first open after disclosure — the earliest anyone reading this could have acted. The highlighted now row sits at its true place in the sequence, so where it falls tells you how long the position has run. The last 9 rows are blank because those windows have not closed yet: this trade was entered —, so anything longer than that is still running.
Other congressional trades in ITW
| Grade | Date | Member | Side | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | 24 Feb 2026 | Shelley M Capito | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 05 Nov 2025 | Richard Dean Dr McCormick | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 31 Oct 2025 | Lisa McClain | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 30 Oct 2025 | Lisa McClain | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 30 Oct 2025 | Lisa McClain | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 17 Jun 2025 | Lisa McClain | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 21 Apr 2025 | Bruce Westerman | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 08 Apr 2025 | Bruce Westerman | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 07 Apr 2025 | Jared Moskowitz | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 10 Mar 2025 | Carol Devine Miller | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| A | 25 Sep 2024 | C. Scott Franklin | purchase | $50,001 - $100,000 |
| B | 25 Sep 2024 | C. Scott Franklin | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 25 Sep 2024 | Scott Scott Franklin | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 04 Sep 2024 | John James | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 03 May 2024 | Thomas H Tuberville | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 03 May 2024 | Thomas H Tuberville | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 10 Nov 2023 | John James | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 17 Oct 2023 | Thomas H Tuberville | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| C | 08 Sep 2023 | Lois Frankel | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 11 Apr 2023 | Ladda Tammy Duckworth | sale | $15,001 - $50,000 |
| E | 03 Apr 2023 | Thomas H Tuberville | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 03 Apr 2023 | Thomas H Tuberville | sale | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| B | 22 Mar 2023 | Lois Frankel | sale partial | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| E | 15 Mar 2023 | Richard Dean Dr McCormick | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |
| D | 21 Feb 2023 | Jared Moskowitz | purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 |