A quarter ago I said I preferred Honeywell (HON) and Eaton (ETN) to Illinois Tool Works (ITW),
and in the three months since Honeywell and Eaton have outperformed
Illinois Tool Works by about 10%. Now, Illinois Tool Works shareholders
are left to digest a second straight disappointing quarter - while ITW
hit the organic revenue growth target this time, segment EBIT missed
expectations by a few percentage points and management lowered guidance.
I'm
not too surprised that Illinois Tool Works is seeing higher than
expected cost pressures; if anything, that's a theme this quarter in the
industrials. I'm more surprised, though, by what looks like weaker
results in areas like auto and electronics relative to peers like 3M (MMM), Danaher (DHR), and Stanley Black & Decker (SWK).
With weaker prospects for beat-and-raise quarters across the
industrial/multi-industrial landscape, I'm more worried about the risk
of re-rating in the second half of 2018 (multiples shrinking back toward
historical norms).
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Illinois Tool Works Loses A Little Luster
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