3M Co

General Electric’s 2016 free cash flows are expected to remain at $8.2 billion. This is mainly due to free cash flows of -$6.0 billion generated in 1H16.

Danaher’s filtration business came into existence through the acquisition of Pall in 2015.

Caterpillar (CAT) released its retail statistics for July on a three-month rolling basis on August 18. However, Caterpillar’s retail sales fell in July.

Parker-Hannifin has guided its fiscal 2017 adjusted EPS at $6.40–$7.10. The midpoint of this range is roughly 4.5% higher than $6.46 in fiscal 2016.

3M Company’s (MMM) acquisition strategy for the last ten years can be classified as “BI” (before Inge) and “AI” (after Inge).

In February 2016, 3M Company (MMM) set financial objectives for the five-year period from 2016 to 2020 that were slightly below its previous expectations.

Realizing that its capital structure was sub-optimal and was leading to a high cost of capital, 3M Company started adding leverage.

3M Company’s (MMM) accruals ratios using the balance sheet and the cash flow methods rose considerably in 2015.

Roper Technologies’ Industrial Technology segment’s revenue stood at 21% of its sales in 2015. This segment’s revenue was 41% of its sales in 2014.

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3M Company’s (MMM) Consumer Solutions segment is made up of four diverse businesses, which garnered a combined annual revenue of $4.4 billion in 2015.

3M Company is generating a massive 30%–32% of its annual revenue from products it’s introduced in the last five years.

While 3M’s peer group includes industrial conglomerates such as Honeywell and General Electric, these companies hardly share any similarities with 3M.

3M company owes much of its innovative culture to William McKnight, who became the General Manager of the company in 1914.

Few companies have the kind of ubiquitous presence that 3M Company (MMM) likely does in your everyday life.

Honeywell’s ACS unit uses the software-as-a-service (or SaaS) business model. In the SaaS model, software is licensed on a subscription basis to users.

Industrial production—or in some cases, manufacturing production—provides important input about a nation’s economic output, irrespective of its business cycle.

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Pratt & Whitney (UTX) originally focused only on selling airplane engines and spare parts. It covered only 10% of its engines under its aftermarket program.