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Earnings estimate	Current qtr. (Sep 2022)	Next qtr. (Dec 2022)	Current year (2022)	Next year (2023)
No. of analysts	18	18	22	22
Avg. Estimate	2.65	2.6	10.36	10.84
Low estimate	2.52	2.33	9.98	10.21
High estimate	2.8	2.76	10.5	11.68
Year ago EPS	2.45	2.31	10.12	10.36

Revenue estimate	Current qtr. (Sep 2022)	Next qtr. (Dec 2022)	Current year (2022)	Next year (2023)
No. of analysts	17	17	21	21
Avg. Estimate	8.77B	8.56B	34.87B	35.52B
Low estimate	8.52B	7.98B	34.03B	33.37B
High estimate	9.07B	9.07B	35.38B	36.41B
Year ago sales	N/A	8.61B	35.35B	34.87B
Sales growth (year/est)	N/A	-0.60%	-1.40%	1.90%

Earnings history	29/09/2021	30/12/2021	30/03/2022	29/06/2022
Est. EPS	2.2	2.01	2.31	2.42
Actual EPS	2.45	2.31	2.65	2.48
Difference	0.25	0.3	0.34	0.06
Surprise %	11.40%	14.90%	14.70%	2.50%

EPS trend	Current qtr. (Sep 2022)	Next qtr. (Dec 2022)	Current year (2022)	Next year (2023)
Current estimate	2.65	2.6	10.36	10.84
7 days ago	2.67	2.61	10.38	10.86
30 days ago	2.68	2.59	10.38	10.86
60 days ago	2.69	2.61	10.41	10.92
90 days ago	2.8	2.76	10.77	11.32

EPS revisions	Current qtr. (Sep 2022)	Next qtr. (Dec 2022)	Current year (2022)	Next year (2023)
Up last 7 days	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Up last 30 days	N/A	2	N/A	N/A
Down last 7 days	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Down last 30 days	1	1	1	1

Growth estimates	MMM	Industry	Sector(s)	S&P 500
Current qtr.	8.20%	N/A	N/A	N/A
Next qtr.	12.60%	N/A	N/A	N/A
Current year	2.40%	N/A	N/A	N/A
Next year	4.60%	N/A	N/A	N/A
Next 5 years (per annum)	0.40%	N/A	N/A	N/A
Past 5 years (per annum)	1.51%	N/A	N/A	N/A