3M COMPANY
At today's price, 3M COMPANY (MMM) is priced for -3.3% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• 3M is a sprawling industrial conglomerate spanning abrasives, adhesives, personal safety, electronics, and consumer products, now in the middle of a turnaround focused on simplifying the portfolio and lifting margins, with first-quarter operating margin reaching 23.2%, up 230 basis points. [Source: 3M Q1 2026 results, April 2026] • The most important distinction for this stock is GAAP versus underlying: reported EPS fell 40% to $1.23, dragged by the declining value of its retained Solventum st
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2,109 institutional managers reported holding MMM in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 63% of the company; the top 10 hold 34%. 110 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 11.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
MMM has cut its share count 23.9% over the past five years, spending $10.04B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting); the current rate is $2.92 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $5.61B in dividends and $7.08B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at MMM over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 24 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
MMM's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-26 | +8.0% | -17.0% |
| 2023-10-25 | +4.4% | +21.6% |
| 2024-02-08 | -0.3% | -0.0% |
| 2024-05-01 | +6.8% | +3.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
MMM's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-08 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-05-13 (items 5.07); 2026-05-06 (items 1.01, 2.03); 2026-04-21 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-05 (items 5.02).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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