3M Company (MMM)

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3M Company's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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3M Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $30 billion in fiscal 2016 to $25 billion in fiscal 2025, down 2.1% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 30% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, 3M Company's diluted share count shrank about 1.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 59 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-02 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, 3M Company earned about 68 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 26 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 87 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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3M Company's standing among 109 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $25 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 2% by size; a net margin of 13% ranks in the top 13%; revenue growth of -1.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 20% (its annual reports).

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3M Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Brown, William M (Chairman & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-05-03, 2.5 years (bottom 35% of its family); the 26 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.1 years (bottom 14%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 26 people in charge now (top 23%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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3M Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $5.2 billion against debt of $11 billion leaves -15.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 22% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 5.6% of revenue (top 28%); a gross margin of 39.9% (bottom 21%) (its annual report).

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3M Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -1.6% a year over the last three filed years against -2.1% over all 10, speeding up (top 33% of its family); the newest year grew 1.5% (bottom 23%); research spending grew -16.4% a year (bottom 8%); capital spending grew -19.6% a year (bottom 29%) (its annual reports). 3M Company reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Safety and Industrial at $11 billion, Transportation and Electronics at $8.3 billion, Consumer at $4.9 billion. 1 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 46% of revenue (its annual report).

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3M Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $25 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 4.7% above the $24 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 24% of its family); net income of $3.3 billion against a prior three-year average of $985 million (top 6%); a net margin of 13% against 3.5% before (top 48%) (its annual reports).