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3M is joining the clique of public companies spinning off into separate entities. Here are the details on 3M’s healthcare spin-off.

The three US equity indices that we review in this weekly series fell from December 8 to December 15, 2015, after a rebound in oil prices.

On a long-term basis, NSC aims for a dividend payout ratio of 33.3%.

General Electric (GE) released its 1Q18 earnings on April 20. GE’s adjusted earnings per share were $0.16, up 14.0% year-over-year.

3M (MMM) is expected to post earnings per share (or EPS) of $2.01 in 4Q17, an increase of 6.9% over 4Q16.

Roper Technologies’ stock has declined since July 2015, after touching a high of $195.93 per share on November 30, 2015.

Honeywell’s (HON) Performance Materials and Technologies (or PMT) segment accounted for 22.2% of HON’s total revenue in 2Q17.

General Electric’s dividend compound annual growth rate in the last seven years ended in 2015 was 7.1%. This single-digit growth wasn’t that impressive.

Avery Dennison (AVY) has a market cap of $6.8 billion. It rose by 5.7% to close at $76.37 per share on July 26, 2016.

Today, several analysts raised their target price for 3M (NYSE:MMM) stock. The company reported better-than-anticipated first-quarter results on April 28.

In this morning’s edition of our daily market newsletter, Get Real, we looked at Trump’s new tariff targets, a 5G network launch, and turnaround hopes.

Elon Musk found redemption in Tesla’s strong Q3 results. US steel led the downward spiral in the market along with Twitter and Nokia. 

Dow Jones Futures are pointing to a flat opening for the day. The flash PMI data and other economic data releases might impact markets today.

3M (MMM) recently spent $6.7 billion to acquire Acelity, a medical-tech company with concentrations in specialized surgical applications and wound care.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index has fallen 0.4% or by 115 points today. The index is trading lower after rising for eight consecutive trading sessions.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average registered minor gains on March 25, while other major US indexes fell.

For 3M stock, 37% of the analysts recommended a “buy,” 42% recommended a “hold,” and 21% recommended a “sell.”

3M offers pension and post-retirement benefit plans to its employees. The company has more than 75 defined benefit plans in 27 countries.

On September 24, General Electric’s (GE) Renewable Energy division launched its new onshore turbine platform named “Cypress.”

Caterpillar (CAT) reported revenues of $14.01 billion in the second quarter—an increase of 23.7% on a YoY (year-over-year) basis.

In 4Q17, Dentsply Sirona (XRAY) started reporting its operations under two segments, after a shift to three segments in fiscal 3Q17.

Align Technology (ALGN) has been growing at a fast pace while it executes its strategic priorities around the world.

The drug candidates in Radius Health’s (RDUS) pipeline include an investigational abaloparatide transdermal patch for possible use in treating women with postmenopausal osteoporosis.

The Chinese market is Align Technology’s major growth driver. However, the company is starting to witness strong competition from startups focused on the clear aligners market.

FedEx Ground’s (FDX) revenues rose 11.5% to $4.9 billion in fiscal 2Q18, from $4.4 billion in fiscal 2Q17.

Honeywell International’s (HON) Safety and Productivity Solutions segment is a fairly new segment and its lowest revenue contributor, accounting for 14.0% of total revenue.

3M has recorded a 3.0% revenue growth in the first half of 2017, driven by growth in every segment and flat growth in the consumer segment.

In the last ten years, GE has raised its cash dividends to common for seven of those years. The annualized $0.96 per share dividend results in a dividend payout ratio of 61.1%.

International market strategy In 2Q17, Align Technology (ALGN) reported 85,400 Invisalign case shipments in international markets, which is YoY (year-over-year) growth of ~37.4% and sequential growth of ~13.6%. This growth was mainly attributed to new customers in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) and Asia-Pacific markets. If Align Technology continues to demonstrate solid […]

Honeywell’s (HON) Safety and Productivity Solutions segment is the smallest revenue contributor, accounting for 14.2% of HON’s total revenue.

In this article, we’ll look at MMM’s latest valuations and compare them to its peers’. On July 3, 2017, MMM was trading at a one-year forward PE of 22.70x.

Among 3M Company’s (MMM) industrial peers, MMM stock has been the second-best performer since the beginning of 2017.

In 1Q17, Align Technology (ALGN) also witnessed a robust rise of around 45.2% in volumes of Invisalign sold in Asia-Pacific markets on a YoY basis.

In 1Q17, Align Technology (ALGN) has started selling its new product Invisalign Go in North America, which involves a few DSOs (dental service organizations).

In 1Q17, Align Technology’s (ALGN) Invisalign sales volumes in North American markets rose YoY by 20.3% and QoQ by 8.3%.

Align Technology (ALGN) is a medical device provider focused on malocclusion or teeth misalignment condition.

For fiscal 2017, Align Technology (ALGN) expects its 2017 revenues to grow operationally in the range of 15%–25% YoY.

For 1Q17, Align Technology (ALGN) reported revenues close to $310.3 million, which represents YoY (year-over-year) growth of around 30.0%.

HON’s SPS segment’s strong performance was primarily driven by the acquisition of Intelligrated.

In this article, we’ll review analysts’ recommendations for General Electric (GE) ahead of its 1Q17 earnings release on April 21, 2017. Wall Street analysts seem to be divided over GE.

For a long time, General Electric (GE) has remained a decent dividend distributor in the S&P 500 space. The company raised its dividend per share by $0.01 to $0.24 in January 2017.

As of March 8, 18 brokerage firms were tracking 3M stock—42% of the analysts rated it as a “buy,” 42% rated it as a “hold,” and 16% rated it as a “sell.”

Danaher Corporation (DHR) announced its 4Q16 and 2016 earnings results before the market opened on January 31, 2017. Let’s take a look.

3M (MMM) offers defined benefit plans to all its US employees and those outside the United States as a well. Overall, the company has 80 defined plans across 28 countries.

Avery Dennison rose 1.4% to close at $72.40 per share on January 6. The stock’s weekly, monthly, and YTD price movements were 2.5%, -1.1%, and 3.1%.

Price movement Ecolab (ECL) has a market cap of $35.4 billion. It rose 0.67% to close at $119.61 per share on December 8, 2016. The stock’s weekly, monthly, and year-to-date (or YTD) price movements were 0.95%, 5.3%, and 5.5%, respectively, on the same day. ECL is trading 3.0% above its 20-day moving average, 2.7% above […]

On November 14, industrial heavyweight General Electric acquired ServiceMax, a global provider of field service management software based in California.

ServiceMax’s complementary capabilities would help GE Digital develop and expedite the commercialization of its Predix applications.

In addition to the sale of its Financial Assets business, General Electric (GE) bid farewell to its Appliance business in July 2016.

On October 11, 2016, General Electric (GE), an industrial behemoth, said that it was set to acquire LM Wind Power for $1.7 billion.