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3M Company

163.64USD+0.28%
Today's range161.50 – 164.30
52-week range139.34 – 184.90

Key numbers

Market value
$84.37B

What the whole company is worth on the stock market.

P/E ratio
29.1

Price ÷ last year's profit per share. Higher means investors pay more for each $1 of profit.

Forward P/E
16.7

The same ratio using next year's expected profit.

Beta
1.06

How much the stock swings compared with the market: 1 moves like the market, 1.5 moves 50% more.

Dividend yield
1.91%

Yearly dividend as a share of the price.

What analysts say

19 analysts

Strong buy: 1Buy: 8Hold: 8Sell: 0Strong sell: 2
Average price target187.26 +14.43% vs today's price

Recent analyst actions

2026-09-25 · Wells FargoEqual-Weight
2026-09-25 · BernsteinUnderperform → Market Perform
2026-07-23 · MizuhoNeutral
2026-07-22 · UBSBuy
2026-07-22 · BernsteinUnderperform
2026-07-22 · CitigroupNeutral

Financial health

Piotroski F-Score
5/9

Nine checks of profitability, debt and efficiency. 7–9 strong, 4–6 average, 0–3 weak.

Altman Z-Score
4.24 · Safe zone

A bankruptcy-risk score. Above 3 is the safe zone, 1.8–3 grey, below 1.8 distress.

Profitability and debt

Revenue, last 12 months$25.18B
Revenue growth+2.5%
Gross margin39.4%
Operating margin20.4%
Net margin11.9%
Return on equity81.9%
Free cash flow$6.35B
Debt to equity438%
Current ratio1.24

Short-term assets ÷ short-term debts. Below 1 means more due within a year than on hand.

Fair value (DCF model)

A discounted-cash-flow model: what future cash flows are worth today. It is a model, not a promise.

Pessimistic
32.04
Base case
34.96
Optimistic
39.22
Margin of safety
-78.6%

Compared with similar companies

The company next to its sector peers.

CompanyPriceP/EP/BMarket value
CATCaterpillar, Inc.863.4436.712.6$398.25B
GEGE Aerospace309.3935.717.4$320.17B
RTXRTX Corporation183.2932.13.8$248.03B
DEDeere & Company682.7938.14.8$185.80B
UNPUnion Pacific Corporation276.6122.47.4$164.47B
BABoeing Company (The)189.8262.031.2$151.04B
LMTLockheed Martin Corporation510.1218.716.7$117.48B
MMM3M Company163.6428.218.1$84.37B
UPSUnited Parcel Service, Inc.93.1117.35.2$79.05B
HONHoneywell International Inc.212.877.88.0$67.47B
Sector average29.912.5

About the company

SectorIndustrials
IndustryConglomerates
Employees60,500
CountryUnited States
Websitewww.3m.com

3M Company provides diversified technology services in the America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Safety and Industrial, Transportation and Electronics, and Consumer. The Safety and Industrial segment provides industrial abrasives and finishing for metalworking applications; autobody repair solutions; industrial specialty products, such as personal hygiene products, masking, and packaging materials; electrical products and materials for construction and maintenance, power distribution, and electrical original equipment manufacturers; structural adhesives and tapes; respiratory, hearing, eye, and fall protection solutions; and natural and color-coated mineral granules for shingles. The Transportation and Electronics segment provides ceramic solutions; attachment and bonding, films, sound, and temperature managem…

Data: Elcaro Core (Yahoo Finance, Binance, Treasury) · Information, not investment advice.