ST. PAUL, Minn. – July 25, 2023 − 3M (NYSE: MMM) today reported second quarter 2023 results.

“In the second quarter, the actions we took to strengthen our supply chain and restructure the company led to improved service for customers, reduced costs across 3M, and better than expected margins and cash flow," said Mike Roman, 3M chairman and chief executive officer. “As we execute our strategy, we are positioning 3M for long-term performance, including progressing the planned spin of our Health Care business and addressing a significant portion of PFAS litigation.”

															Q2 2023						Q2 2022
									GAAP earnings (loss) per share						$	(12.35)					$	0.14
									Special items:
									Impact of public water systems (PWS) settlement						14.19						—
									Other net costs for significant litigation						0.24						2.34
									Other special items, net						0.09						(0.03)
									Adjusted EPS						$	2.17					$	2.45
									Memo:
									GAAP operating income (loss) margin						(107.6)		%				1.3		%
									Adjusted operating income margin						19.3		%				21.6		%

•GAAP loss per share of $12.35 and operating margin of minus 107.6% include the previously announced proposed settlement agreement with PWS in the United States regarding PFAS resulting in a pre-tax charge of $10.3 billion payable over 13 years, negatively impacting earnings per share by $14.19.

•Adjusted earnings per share of $2.17 includes pre-tax restructuring charges of $212 million, or negative $0.31 per share.

•Adjusted operating income margin of 19.3% includes a 2.7 percentage point headwind from pre-tax restructuring charges.

•Sales of $8.3 billion, down 4.3 percent year-on-year, with organic sales decline of 2.2 percent year-on-year.

•Adjusted sales of $8.0 billion, down 4.7 percent year-on-year with adjusted organic sales decline of 2.5 percent year-on-year.

•Operating cash flow of $1.5 billion, up 34 percent year-on-year; adjusted free cash flow of $1.5 billion, up 44 percent year-on-year.

•3M returned $828 million to shareholders via dividends.

The above includes reference to certain non-GAAP measures. See the “Supplemental Financial Information Non-GAAP Measures” section for applicable information.

Given the company’s strong operational execution and cost discipline, 3M raises its full-year adjusted EPS2 expectations for 2023 to $8.60 to $9.10 vs. $8.50 to $9.00 prior.

Adjusted total sales growth2 in the range of -5 to -1 percent, reflecting adjusted organic sales growth of -3 percent to flat, which remains unchanged.

Adjusted operating cash flow2 of $5.9 to $6.3 billion is contributing to 90% to 100% adjusted free cash flow conversion2,which is also unchanged.

2As further discussed at 6 within the "Supplemental Financial Information Non-GAAP Measures" section, 3M cannot, without unreasonable effort, forecast certain items required to develop meaningful comparable GAAP financial measures and, therefore, does not provide them on a forward-looking basis reflecting these items.

On June 22, 2023, 3M issued a press release announcing a proposed settlement agreement with PWS in the United States regarding PFAS. As a result of this agreement, 3M recorded a pre-tax charge of $10.3 billion in the second quarter of 2023. The charge reflects the present value of the expected $12.5 billion nominal value of 3M’s payments over 13 years under the agreement.

3M will conduct an investor teleconference at 9 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. CDT) today. Investors can access this conference via the following:

•Live webcast at https://investors.3M.com

•Live telephone:

Call 800-762-2596 within the U.S. or +1 212-231-2916 outside the U.S. Please join the call at least 10 minutes before the start time.

•Webcast replay at https://investors.3m.com/financials/quarterly-earnings

•Telephone replay:

Call 800-633-8284 within the U.S. or +1 402-977-9140 outside the U.S. (for both U.S. and outside the U.S., the access code is 22024175). The telephone replay will be available until 11:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 a.m. CDT) on August 1, 2023.

This news release contains forward-looking information about 3M's financial results and estimates and business prospects that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. You can identify these statements by the use of words such as "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "aim," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," "will," "should," "could," "target," "forecast" and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance or business plans or prospects. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, regulatory, international trade, geopolitical, capital markets and other external conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including inflation, recession, military conflicts, natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) risks related to unexpected events such as the public health crises associated with the coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic; (3) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (4) risks related to certain fluorochemicals, including liabilities related to claims, lawsuits, and government regulatory proceedings concerning various PFAS-related products and chemistries, as well as risks related to the Company’s plans to exit PFAS manufacturing and discontinue use of PFAS across its product portfolio; (5) risks related to the proposed class-action settlement (“Settlement”) to resolve claims by public water systems in the United States regarding PFAS, including whether court approval of the Settlement will be obtained, whether the number of plaintiffs that opt out of the Settlement will exceed current expectations or will exceed the level that would permit 3M to terminate the Settlement (and whether 3M will elect to terminate the Settlement if this occurs), whether the Settlement is appealed, the timing and amount of payments made under the Settlement, and the impact of the settlement on other PFAS-related matters; (6) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2022 and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (the "Reports"); (7) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (8) the timing and market acceptance of new product and service offerings; (9) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy due to shortages, increased demand and wages, supply chain interruptions, or natural or other disasters; (10) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (11) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other strategic events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies; (12) operational execution, including the extent to which the Company can realize the benefits of planned productivity improvements, as well as the impact of organizational restructuring activities; (13) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; (14) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (15) tax-related external conditions, including changes in tax rates, laws or regulations; (16) matters relating to the proposed spin-off of the Company’s Health Care business; and (17) matters relating to the voluntary chapter 11 proceedings of the Company’s subsidiary Aearo Technologies and certain of its affiliates. Changes in such assumptions or factors could produce significantly different results. A further description of these factors is located in the Reports under "Cautionary Note Concerning Factors That May Affect Future Results" and "Risk Factors" in Part I, Items 1 and 1A (Annual Report) and in Part I, Item 2 and Part II, Item 1A (Quarterly Reports). The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements discussed herein as a result of new information or future events or developments.

3Total sales change is calculated based on reported sales results. The components of sales change include organic local-    currency sales, acquisitions, divestitures, and translation. Organic local-currency sales include both organic volume impacts (which excludes acquisition and divestiture impacts) and selling price changes. Acquisition and divestiture impacts are measured separately for the first 12 months post-transaction.

3M discloses business segment operating income (loss) as its measure of segment profit/loss, reconciled to both total 3M operating income (loss) and income (loss) before taxes. Business segment operating income (loss) excludes certain expenses and income that are not allocated to business segments (as described below in “Corporate and Unallocated”).

Effective in the first quarter of 2023, the measure of segment operating performance and segment composition used by 3M’s chief operating decision maker (CODM) changed and, as a result, 3M’s disclosed measure of segment profit/loss (business segment operating income (loss)) was updated. The change to business segment operating income (loss) aligns with the update to how the CODM assesses performance and allocates resources for the Company’s business segments. The changes included the items described below. The financial information presented herein reflects the impact of these business segment reporting changes for all periods presented.

3M updated its business segment operating performance measure to reflect all gains/losses from sales of PPE and other assets within Corporate and Unallocated. Previously, certain of these gains/losses were included in 3M’s business segments’ operating performance.

The businesses associated with two groups of products (each with approximately $25 million in sales) were realigned with one moving from the Consumer business segment to the Health Care business segment and the other moving from the Health Care business segment to the Consumer business segment.

Also effective in the first quarter of 2023, the Consumer business segment re-aligned from four divisions to the following three divisions: Home, Health and Auto Care; Construction and Home Improvement Markets; and Stationery and Office.

Corporate and Unallocated operating income (loss) includes “corporate special items” and “other corporate expense-net”. Corporate special items include net costs for significant litigation impacting operating income (loss) associated with PFAS-related other environmental and Combat Arms Earplugs matters. In addition, during the voluntary chapter 11 bankruptcy period (which began in July 2022 and ended in June 2023) costs associated with the Aearo portion of respirator mask/asbestos matters were also included in corporate special items. Prior to the bankruptcy, costs associated with Combat Arms Earplugs matters were not included in the Corporate net costs for significant litigation special item, instead being reflected in the Safety and Industrial business segment. Corporate special items also include divestiture costs, gain/loss on business divestitures, divestiture-related restructuring costs, and Russia exit costs/benefits. Divestiture costs include costs related to separating and divesting substantially an entire business segment of 3M following public announcement of its intended divestiture. Other corporate expense-net includes items such as net costs related to limited unallocated corporate staff and centrally managed material resource centers of expertise costs, corporate philanthropic activity, gains/losses from sales of PPE and other assets, and other net costs that 3M may choose not to allocate directly to its business segments. Other corporate expense-net also includes costs and income from transition supply, manufacturing, and service arrangements with Neogen Corporation following the 2022 split-off of 3M's Food Safety business. Items classified as revenue from this activity are included in Corporate and Unallocated net sales. Because Corporate and Unallocated includes a variety of miscellaneous items, it is subject to fluctuation on a quarterly and annual basis.

In addition to reporting financial results in accordance with U.S. GAAP, 3M also provides certain non-GAAP measures. These measures are not in accordance with, nor are they a substitute for GAAP measures, and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.

Certain measures adjust for the impacts of special items. Special items for the periods presented include the items described in the section entitled “Description of special items”. Because 3M provides certain information with respect to business segments, it is noteworthy that special items impacting operating income (loss) are reflected in Corporate and Unallocated, except as described with respect to net costs for significant litigation and manufactured PFAS products items in the “Description of special items” section. The reconciliations below, therefore, also include impacted segments as applicable.

In 2023, 3M changed certain of its non-GAAP measures by adjusting for the results of manufactured PFAS products in arriving at results, adjusted for special items. In the fourth quarter of 2022, 3M recorded a charge for PFAS manufacturing exit costs and included it as an adjustment in arriving at results, adjusted for special items. The 2023 non-GAAP measure change involved expanding the extent of adjustment to include the sales and estimates of income (including exit costs) and associated activity regarding manufactured PFAS products that 3M plans to exit by the end of 2025. This change also impacts other non-GAAP measures such as adjusted free cash flow, adjusted free cash flow conversion and adjusted EBITDA to similarly include relevant special item adjustments for manufactured PFAS products. The information herein reflects the impacts of these changes for all periods presented.

This document contains measures for which 3M provides the reported GAAP measure and a non-GAAP measure adjusted for special items. The document also contains additional measures which are not defined under U.S. GAAP. These measures and reasons 3M believes they are useful to investors (and, as applicable, used by 3M) include:

The following provides additional information and applicable GAAP amounts reconciled to non-GAAP measures.

The term "N/M" used herein references "not meaningful" for certain percent changes.

4These items represent amounts adjusted for special items. See lead-in to non-GAAP measures discussion.

5For the per share amount, this includes adjusting-out the impact of this item causing weighted average shares outstanding to be the same for both basic and diluted loss per share in periods of resulting net losses.

63M provides these forward-looking non-GAAP measures, but cannot, without unreasonable effort, forecast certain items

to present or provide a reconciliation to corresponding forecasted GAAP measures. These include special items such as net costs for significant litigation; projected divestiture gains; divestiture costs; Russia exit charges/benefits, divestiture-related restructuring; and net sales and estimates of income and associated activity of exited manufactured PFAS products all of which are subject to limitations in predictability of timing, ultimate outcome and numerous conditions outside of 3M’s control. 3M believes these limitations would result in a range of projected values so broad as to not be meaningful to investors. For these reasons, 3M believes that the probable significance of such information is low. Additionally, for similar reasons, 3M does not include the impact of potentially-divested or acquired businesses on expected operations in forecasted outlook guidance it provides until close of a transaction. Information with respect to special items for certain historical periods is included in the section entitled “Description of special items”.

73M defines adjusted net cash provided by (used in) operating activities as net cash provided by operating activities, adjusted for special items. 3M defines adjusted purchases of property, plant and equipment (also referred to as adjusted capital expenditures) as purchases of property, plant and equipment (PPE) adjusted for the estimated impact of such purchases associated with manufactured PFAS products activity. 3M defines adjusted free cash flow as adjusted net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less adjusted purchases of PPE. Cash payments associated with special items in the determination of adjusted net cash provided by (used in) operating activities are reflected net of applicable tax using the U.S. statutory corporate tax rate during the period of payment. 3M defines adjusted free cash flow conversion as adjusted free cash flow divided by net income (loss) attributable to 3M, adjusted for special items.

83M defines adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) attributable to 3M, adjusted for net income/(loss) attributable to noncontrolling interest,    (income)/loss from unconsolidated subsidiaries, provision for income taxes, other expense/(income), depreciation and amortization expense, and special items. For business segments, 3M defines adjusted EBITDA as business segment operating income (loss) (3M’s measure of segment operating performance) adjusted for special items that is then further adjusted for depreciation and amortization (DA) expense, net of the PFAS-related amount included in DA. The Company defines adjusted EBITDA margin as adjusted EBITDA divided by net sales, adjusted for special items.