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3M Company (MMM)

Industrials · Conglomerates · Large-cap · updated October 16, 2026

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What this means. 3M Company is an average business by our measures, its shares look expensive compared with other stocks, and its share price trend is middling.
Value32
Quality54
Price trend44
Overall41
2253 of 2764rank among the US stocks we score (our core model buys the top 15)
18%of US stocks we score rank below it

Scores are 0 to 100 against every US stock we track; 50 is average. Recomputed after every US market close.

The business in numbers

Fiscal year to December 2025, from the company's annual filing with the SEC.

Salesyearly sales$24.9B
Sales growthchange from the year before+1.5%
Gross marginshare of sales left after the direct cost of what it sells39.9%
Operating marginshare of sales left after running the business18.6%
Net marginshare of sales kept as profit13.0%
Free-cash-flow marginspare cash generated per $100 of sales5.6%
Return on invested capitalprofit made on each $100 put into the business21.1%
Return on equityprofit vs. shareholders' accounting value69.1%
Debt / equitydebt vs. shareholders' accounting value2.68
Interest coverhow many times profit covers interest payments10.3x
Change in share countnegative = the company is buying back its shares-2.0%

Insider trades, last 90 days

4 insiders sold $3.6M on the open market.

Banovetz John PatrickExecutive Vice PresidentSoldJul 237,880 shat $170.44 · $1.3M
Reinseth Theresa ESr Vice President & CAOSoldJul 23924 shat $169.42 · $157K
Goralski Christian T JRGroup PresidentSoldJul 224,902 shat $170.46 · $836K

From Form 4 filings with the SEC. Open-market trades only. "Plan" = a sale set up in advance under a 10b5-1 plan, usually routine.

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