3M Company (MMM): Price and Financial Metrics

MMM POWR Grades

• MMM scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 97.93% of US stocks.
• MMM's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• MMM's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 23.03% of US stocks).

MMM Stock Summary

• MMM has a market capitalization of $53,506,688,327 -- more than approximately 95.97% of US stocks.
• 3M CO's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 93.61% of US equities in our set.
• Of note is the ratio of 3M CO's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 98.9% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to 3M CO are A, CARR, BDX, ETN, and RMD.
• MMM's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit 3M CO's official web site, go to www.3m.com.

MMM Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, MMM's EV/EBIT ratio is 33.12% lower, now standing at 10.5.
• Over the past 243 months, MMM's price/sales ratio has gone down 1.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MMM.

MMM Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -2.49%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 13.22%.
• Its 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 12.57%.

The table below shows MMM's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

MMM's Quality Factors

• MMM has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 98.75% of graded US stocks.
• MMM's asset turnover comes in at 0.739 -- ranking 44th of 186 Medical Equipment stocks.
• BSX, ARAY, and INGN are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with MMM.

The table below shows MMM's key quality metrics over time.