Short interest in Illinois Tool Works Inc (NYSE:ITW) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 5.53M to 5.67M. This put 1.93% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Illinois Tool Works gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Illinois Tool Works's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 831.75K shares traded per day, it would take 6.82 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.