3M Company

MMM Industrials Conglomerates

3M Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $24.9 billion, up 1.52% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+1.03%
EPS
+69.9%
Free cash flow
+166.9%
Total debt
+19.0%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

179.01 4.67 +2.68%
Market cap
$90.1B
P/E
26.5×
Fwd P/E
22.7×
Dividend yield
1.71%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.27
Beneish M
−2.26
Dividend safety
43/100

3M Company (MMM) Free cash flow margin

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3M Company's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 10.8%, up 4.8 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (5.98%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 2.84% (fiscal 2024) to 21.1% (fiscal 2023); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is above the Conglomerates industry median of −0.12% and above the Industrials sector median of 1.93%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 5.98% 3.14
FY2024 2.84% (18.22)
FY2023 21.1% 5.61
FY2022 15.5% (1.24)
FY2021 16.7% (4.25)
FY2020 20.9% 3.84
FY2019 17.1% 1.46
FY2018 15.6% 0.11
FY2017 15.5% (2.07)
FY2016 17.6% 1.11

Against its own ten years

Low 2.84% High 21.1%
Ten-year median 16.5%
Current reading's percentile 18

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
MMM 3M Company 10.8%
DLX Deluxe Corporation compare 9.90%
VMI Valmont Industries, Inc. compare 7.20%
GHC Graham Holdings Company compare 3.42%
HON Honeywell International Inc. compare 2.62%
BBUC Brookfield Business Partners L.P. compare 1.68%
SEB Seaboard Corporation compare 0.18%
OTTR Otter Tail Corporation compare −5.32%
PAM Pampa Energia S.A. compare −18.8%
Conglomerates industry median −0.12%
Industrials sector median 1.93%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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