Share 3M for years among American outperformers

The past years 3M gained a lot in value. The stock belongs because of her strong price gain of 159 percent over the past 10 year to one of the best shares of the American markets. Since the start of this year, the average American stock rose year around 124 percent in value. Other winners over the past 10 years are NetFlix , Priceline.com and Amazon .

Returns 3M versus American stocks

Buy & hold Returns stock 3M several periods, excluding dividend returns

Investors who invested in 2007 in the company's share now have a strong profit of 159 percent. Since 2012 the stock has a price gain of 78 percent. over the past 90 days the stock made a loss of 15 percent.

For this year 3M 's revenue will be around 33,61 billion USD. This is according to the average of the analysts' estimates. This is slightly more than 2017's revenue of 31,66 billion USD.

Historical revenues and results 3M plus estimates 2018

The analysts expect for 2018 a net profit of 6,19 billion USD. For this year the majority of the analysts, consulted by press agency Thomson Reuters, expects a profit per share of 10,4 USD. The price-earnings-ratio equals 19,14.

Analysts expect a dividend of 5,43 USD per share. Thus the dividend yield equals 2,73 percent. The average dividend yield of the diversified companies equals a moderate 1 percent.

Latest estimates around 217 USD

Jefferies & Co., Stifel and JP Morgan recently provided recommendations for the stock.

Based on the current number of outstanding shares 3M 's market capitalization is 118,77 billion USD.

Historical stock prices 3M

On Thursday the stock closed at 199,03 USD.

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