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The Motley Fool October 18, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	3 Cheers for 3M? Sales and margin improvements underlie the value for investors here.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Does 3M Spell Bingo? With 3M's projected earnings growth of 12% per annum over the next five years, you'd probably want its P/E of 19 and price-to-free cash flow ratio 17 to drop a bit before buying this one.
The Motley Fool April 18, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	3M Rolls On Some analysts may get hung up on a revenue shortfall, but results from the first quarter were good.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2008 David Lee Smith	3M Sticks to Your Portfolio Despite a sluggish economy, 3M managed across-the-board improvement.
The Motley Fool August 17, 2005 David Meier	The Power of Margins The way you think about margins can give you an investing edge.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2006	Foolish Fundamentals: Margins Margins are important, but how you use margin information is more important to your investing success. Don't stay on the surface when analyzing margins. Your portfolio will thank you for it later.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	3M Needs to Get MMMoving New CEO George Buckley seems a bit more interested in engineering and innovation than his predecessor. Should he succeed in leveraging 3M's great base of engineering talent, better future growth is attainable. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool August 11, 2010	The Recovery: Is It Fake or Real? Recent gross domestic product and manufacturing-activity data left investors wondering whether to trust hopeful signs of a recovery.
The Motley Fool February 23, 2011 Brian Richards	Here's Where 3M Makes Money A look at where the company is selling its goods.
The Motley Fool April 25, 2008 David Lee Smith	3M's Downside-Up Quarter Take away year-ago asset sales, and 3M has grown earnings nicely.
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The Motley Fool November 9, 2006 Jim Gillies	The Best Blue Chip for 2007: 3M Constant innovation and rewards for shareholders -- there's a lot for investors to like here.
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The Motley Fool July 25, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Investors Whack 3M Old news is bad news for 3M. It doesn't make too much sense to see even more weakness in a stock on the same negative news investors already expected.
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The Motley Fool October 27, 2011 Eric Bleeker	Here's Where 3M's Finding Its Growth Where's your company generating its sales? Here's a look at where 3M's sales and earnings come from and how its sales abroad have changed over time.
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The Motley Fool October 12, 2005 Roger Friedman	The Best Strategy Now There comes a time when every investor should listen to his inner value investor. When looking to get rich slowly, it's best to invest like an adult.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2011 David Lee Smith	3M's Tiny Beat Hurts Its Shares While it topped the analysts' forecast, the market found 3M's results less than inspiring.
CIO April 29, 2010 Rick Swanborg	Social Networks in the Enterprise: 3M's Innovation Process When 3M wanted to expand the reach of its innovation process it deployed an internal social network to access all 75,000 global employees, bringing in hundreds of new ideas.
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The Motley Fool November 9, 2004 Lawrence Meyers	3M Looks Mmm-Mmm Good It's easy to overlook this stalwart, but doing so means missing out on a solid investment. Its stock price has doubled over the past five years and quadrupled over the past 15 years.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Seth Jayson	3M Steering Straight Solid earnings and straight talk make this a stock worth owning.
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The Motley Fool March 16, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	3M Makes More Money 3M boosts its 2004 outlook again. It's an adhesive charm.
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The Motley Fool August 3, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Still Time to Tie Into Tyco The conglomerate's stock is undervalued, but also underperforming. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Rich Smith	This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades Citi seems to think 3M is especially vulnerable to current trends and downgrades the stock to "sell."
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