Complete the acquisition of the MTS Test & Simulation business
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 28 Oct 2021
- Due
- 31 Dec 2021
- Delivered
- 1 Dec 2021
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“ITW expects to complete its previously announced acquisition of the MTS Test & Simulation business in the fourth quarter of 2021.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Illinois Tool Works completed the acquisition of the MTS Test & Simulation business on December 1, 2021, which falls within the fourth quarter of 2021.
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A Illinois Tool Works 10-Q filed 2022-05-06
“On December 1, 2021, the Company completed the acquisition of the Test & Simulation business of MTS Systems Corporation ("MTS") from Amphenol Corporation for a purchase price of $750 million” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +1.3% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (5 May 2022 to 10 May 2022). What this measures
Checked 12 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Complete
- Deliverable
- MTS Test & Simulation business
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: Pending final regulatory approvals
- Depends on
- Regulatory
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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