---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000066740-24-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MMM"
cik: "0000066740"
company_name: "3M CO"
filed_at: "2024-01-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T20:17:07.733369+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# 3M Q4 adjusted EPS $2.42 beats $2.18 YoY; FY 2024 outlook $9.35-$9.75

## Summary
- Q4 GAAP EPS $1.70 (vs $0.98); adjusted EPS $2.42 (vs $2.18), up 11% YoY.
- Q4 sales $8,013M; organic sales -1.9% (-1.4% adjusted for PFAS).
- FY 2023 GAAP loss per share $12.63 from $14.8B in litigation charges (CAE & PWS settlements); adjusted EPS $9.24.
- FY 2024 outlook: adjusted EPS $9.35-$9.75, adjusted organic sales growth flat to +2%, operating cash flow $6.5-$7.1B.
- Health Care spin on track for first half 2024; restructuring headwind of 1.4pp to adjusted operating margin.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000066740-24-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MMM
- cik: 0000066740
- company_name: 3M CO
- filed_at: 2024-01-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66740/000006674024000005/0000066740-24-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66740/000006674024000005/mmm-20240123.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000066740-24-000005.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  3M CO reported financial results for fourth-quarter 2023.
  - Period: fourth-quarter 2023
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On January 23, 2024, 3M Company issued a press release reporting fourth-quarter and full-year 2023 financial results and provided its 2024 financial outlook (attached hereunder as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66740/000006674024000005/0000066740-24-000005-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.