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Closing Price as of 08/18/2023: $100.01

Dividend Yield: 6.0%
Latest Filing: 10-Q for period ending 06/30/2023

3M Company (MMM) 2 - Attractive

NYSE - Industrials
Price 08/18/2023: $100.01
Investment Recommendation Economic Book Value per share $92.27
52-Week Range $91.02 - $138.17
• We recommend investors buy MMM.
• MMM earns our Attractive rating. See
Investment Rating Details below.
• An Attractive rating means this stock has strong
upside potential compared to low downside risk.
• MMM ranks in the 84th percentile of the 2900+
stocks we cover.
• Ranks 51st out of 408 Industrials Sector stocks.

Investment Rating Details

Risk/Reward Quality of Earnings Valuation

Rating Economic vs Return on Invested Growth Appreciation
FCF Yield Price-to-EBV Ratio Period (yrs)
Reported EPS Capital (ROIC)
5 - Very Unattractive Misleading Trend Bottom Quintile <-5% > 3.5 or -1 < 0 > 50

4 - Unattractive False Positive 4th Quintile -5%<-1% 2.4 < 3.5 or < -1 20 < 50

3 - Neutral Neutral EE 3rd Quintile -1%<3% 1.6 < 2.4 10 < 20

2 - Attractive Positive EE 2nd Quintile 3%<10% 1.1 < 1.6 3 < 10

1 - Very Attractive Rising EE Top Quintile >10% 0 < 1.1 0<3

Accounting vs Economic Earnings Accounting Adjustments Summary

• MMM's accounting earnings understate its economic earnings,
which equal (ROIC - WACC) * Average Invested Capital.
• For MMM, we made a total of $22,089 million in income
statement and balance sheet adjustments to convert accounting
earnings to economic earnings in FY22.
• We made $21,128 million in adjustments in our DCF valuation of
the stock.
• We make, in general, 10 types of income statement adjustments
to derive NOPAT, 12 types of balance sheet adjustments to
derive Average Invested Capital, & 10 types of valuation
adjustments in our reverse DCF valuation models.

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Economic vs Reported Earnings

Economic Earnings are 2 - Attractive

Economic Earnings are almost always meaningfully different than
reported earnings. We believe Economic Earnings provide a
truer measure of profitability and shareholder value creation than
reported earnings because they have been adjusted to remove
over twenty accounting distortions.

The majority of data required to reverse accounting distortions is

available only in the Footnotes and MD&A, which we analyze
rigorously. Our core competency is gathering and analyzing all
relevant financial data from filings so that we can deliver earnings
analysis that best represents the true profitability of businesses.

Appendix 1 in the report available to members of our website

provides a detailed reconciliation between economic and
accounting earnings.

Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)

ROIC is 3 - Neutral
ROIC measures a company's return on all cash invested in the
business. It is the truest measure of profitability. Stock valuations
are more highly correlated to ROIC than any other metric. ROIC
is calculated as NOPAT divided by Average Invested Capital.

Weighted-Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is the average of

debt and equity capital costs that all publicly traded companies
with debt and equity stakeholders incur as a cost of operating.

Companies must earn an ROIC greater than WACC to generate

positive economic earnings and create value for shareholders.

Appendix 1 in the report available to members of our website

provides details on all the accounting adjustments we make to
provide the best ROIC in the business. This paper compares our
ROIC for a mega cap company to other major providers.

Free Cash Flow Yield (FCF Yield)

Free Cash Flow Yield is 2 - Attractive

Free Cash Flow reflects the amount of cash free for distribution to
all stakeholders (including debt & equity). FCF Yield divides free
cash flow by enterprise value.

Using Free Cash Flow Yield to pick stocks is not a new strategy.
However, our strategy yields superior results because we use a
better measure of Free Cash Flow. In the same way our
Economic EPS are better measures of profitability than reported
EPS, our measure of Free Cash Flow is better than traditional
accounting-based Free Cash Flow.

Appendix 1 in the reports available members of our website

provides the income statement and balance sheet adjustments
required for an accurate measure of FCF.

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Price-to-EBV Ratio

Price-to-EBV Ratio is 1 - Very Attractive

Price-to-Economic Book Value (EBV) measures the difference
between the market's expectations for future profits and the
no-growth value of the stock.

EBV measures the no-growth value of the company based on the

company's current Net Operating Profit After Tax (NOPAT).

When prices are higher than EBV, the market predicts the
NOPAT of the company will increase and expectations for profit
growth are reflected in the stock. If the stock price equals EBV,
the market predicts NOPAT will remain the same and there are
no expectations for profit growth reflected in the stock. When
stock prices are lower than EBV, the market predicts NOPAT will
decrease and expectations for permanent profit decline are
reflected in the stock.

In general, we like to buy stocks with low expectations for profit

growth and sell/short stocks with high expectations for profit
growth.

Appendix 2 in the reports available to member of our website

details all the valuation adjustments required for an accurate
measure of economiv book value.

Growth Appreciation Period

The Growth Appreciation Period is 1 - Very Attractive

Historical Performance Market Expectations
The market-implied duration of profit growth or GAP measures Performance Hurdles
the number of years the company must maintain an edge over its 5 Yr 3Yr Last FY
Default
competitors by earning ROIC greater than the weighted-average based on current price

cost of capital on new investments. Stock Price $190.54 $174.79 $119.92 $100.01
We believe MMM embeds a Very Attractive level of market
Revenue CAGR 1.1% 3.1% (5.8%) -
expectations because there is a conservative level of expected
financial performance implied by its market price compared to the ROIC - WACC 8.9% 7.9% 2.9% -
company's historical performance.
Growth Appreciation Period - - - < 1 year
At MMM's current stock price of $100.01 the market is expecting
almost no profit growth over the remainder of the company's life.
As a result, expectations in MMM's price are very conservative.

These results are derived using our dynamic discounted cash

flow model.

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Appendix: Explanation of New Constructs' Stock Ratings

Ratings

In-depth risk/reward analysis underpins our stock rating. Our stock rating methodology grades every stock according to what
we believe are the 5 most important criteria for assessing the quality of a stock. Each grade reflects the balance of potential
risk and reward of buying that stock. Our analysis results in the 5 ratings described below. Very Attractive and Attractive
correspond to a "Buy" rating, Very Unattractive and Unattractive correspond to a "Sell" rating, while Neutral corresponds to a
"Hold" rating.

Quality of Earnings Valuation

Risk/Reward Rating
Economic vs Return on Invested FCF Yield Price-to-EBV Ratio Growth
Reported EPS Capital (ROIC) Appreciation Period
5 -Very Unattractive Misleading Trend Bottom Quintile < -5% > 3.5 or -1 < 0 > 50

4 - Unattractive False Positive 4th Quintile -5% < -1% 2.4 < 3.5 or < -1 20 < 50

3 - Neutral Neutral EE 3rd Quintile -1% < 3% 1.6 < 2.4 10 < 20

2 - Attractive Positive EE 2nd Quintile 3% < 10% 1.1 < 1.6 3 < 10

1 - Very Attractive Rising EE Top Quintile > 10% 0 < 1.1 0<3

Ratings

Economic earnings and return on capital metrics are significantly more accurate when as-reported financial statements have
been adjusted to reverse accounting distortions and Red Flags. The majority of the data required to reverse accounting
distortions is available only in the Notes to the Financial Statements, which we analyze rigorously. Our core competency is
gathering and analyzing all relevant financial data (from the Financial Statements and Notes) so that we can deliver
earnings analysis that best represents the true profitability of businesses. See the figure below for a list of the Red Flag
adjustments we make to a company's reported GAAP profits in order to reverse accounting distortions and arrive at a better
measure of a firm's profits.

Accounting Issues and Red Flags that Distort GAAP

• Employee Stock Options • Off-Balance-Sheet Financing
• Pension Over/Under Funding • LIFO Reserve
• Excess Cash • Unrealized Gains/Losses
• Restructuring Charges • Goodwill Amortization
• Pooling Goodwill • Unconsolidated Subsidiaries
• Minority Interests • Capitalized Expenses
• Discontinued Operations • Deferred Compensation
• Preferred Stock • Net Deferred tax Assets and Liabilities
• Mid-Year Acquisitions

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measures. For example... 50% to 70% of the variation in Total Adjustments is not explained by S&P Global's (SPGI) Adjustments individually."
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• "A final source of differences [between New Constructs' and S&P Global's data] is due to data collection oversights... we identified
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Key quotes from the paper:
• "...an accurate calculation of ROIC requires more diligence than often occurs in some of the common, off-the-shelf ROIC
calculations. Only by scouring the footnotes and the MD&A [as New Constructs does] can investors get an accurate
calculation of ROIC." -pp. 8, 5th para.

• "The majority of the difference... comes from New Constructs' machine learning approach, which leverages technology to calculate
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