Stock · MMM · Industrials
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1970 · Revenue 12 mo. $25.2B
Price as of 11/06/2026
3M Company provides diversified technology services in the America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally.
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 management for transportation vehicles; format graphic films for advertising and fleet signage; reflective signage for highway and vehicle safety; light management films and electronics assembly solutions; chip packaging and interconnection solutions; semiconductor production materials; and data center solutions. The Consumer segment offers cleaning products for the home; consumer air quality products; picture hanging accessories; retail abrasives, paint accessories, and safety products; stationery and office products; automotive appearance products; and consumer bandages, tapes, braces, and supports. It serves automotive; commercial solutions; consumer markets; design and construction; electronics; energy; government; manufacturing; safety; transportation industries. The company offers its products through e-commerce and traditional wholesalers, retailers, jobbers, distributors, channel partner, and dealers, as well as directly to users. 3M Company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Summary
49.2 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €1.3B (2025), it supports €13.9B. The remaining €69.8B of the market value assume it grows 25.0% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
25.0%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 26.7×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 19 quarters: 10.0× to 29.6×, median 12.6×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
5 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, Net debt, Shares outstanding
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 69.12% | 13.10% | Rank 97 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 32.84% | 19.33% | Rank 66 |
| EBIT margin | 18.29% | 11.28% | Rank 78 |
| FCF margin | 5.60% | 8.50% | Rank 35 |
| Gross margin | 39.55% | 28.98% | Rank 76 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 1.52% | 5.15% | Rank 31 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | −16.01% | 8.01% | Rank 9 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | −8.42% | 12.89% | Rank 6 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 3.65% | 4.02% | Rank 46 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.26% | 4.42% | Rank 29 |
| FCF yield | 1.50% | 3.98% | Rank 19 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 4.02 | 2.08 | Rank 26 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 21.99 | 19.47 | Rank 41 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 3.39% | −0.01% | Rank 57 |
| Share price, 6 months | 29.70% | −1.43% | Rank 95 |
| Share price, 3 months | 6.36% | 0.53% | Rank 67 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −4.54% | −16.36% | Rank 87 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −1.05% | 1.39% | Rank 73 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −2.43% | −0.44% | Rank 78 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 5 | Rank 7 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 5.41% | 0.27% | Rank 85 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 12.46% | 39.65% | Rank 5 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 1.11 | 1.38 | Rank 57 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 2.75 | 0.61 | Rank 6 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 25.84% | 32.95% | Rank 75 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 30.1 | 23.3% | $5.2B | 619M | 9.3 |
| 2017 | 31.7 | 22.8% | $4.9B | 613M | 11.0 |
| 2018 | 32.8 | 23.7% | $4.9B | 602M | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 32.1 | 21.7% | $5.4B | 585M | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 32.2 | 21.6% | $6.6B | 582M | 15.1 |
| 2021 | 35.4 | 21.3% | $5.9B | 585M | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 34.2 | 11.9% | $3.8B | 568M | 13.2 |
| 2023 | 32.7 | −27.9% | $5.1B | 554M | 11.0 |
| 2024 | 24.6 | 20.1% | $638.0M | 552M | 8.1 |
| 2025 | 24.9 | 18.3% | $1.4B | 539M | 7.7 |
2 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
3M Company mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
3M Company is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
2 of 7 rules met
3 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for 3M Company.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 30.7 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 21.2 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 69.1% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 12.5% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 2.75 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 1.7% | 2.0% |
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|---|---|---|
| MMM | 3M Companythis page | |
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