3M’s stock surges after company says 90% of earplug plaintiffs had ‘normal’ hearing

Shares of 3M Co. surged Wednesday after the maker of consumer, industrial and healthcare products said the U.S. Department of Defense’s records show that the “vast majority” of claimants in litigation...

3M stock sinks toward 10-year closing low, and longest losing streak in nearly 4 months

Shares of 3M Co. MMM, -1.02% fell 1.6% in afternoon trading Friday, putting them on track for a 10-year closing low, as the maker of Scotch adhesives, Command hooks, N95 masks and Post-it Notes, conti...

3M raises dividend to $1.50 a share

3M Co. MMM, +0.34% said late Tuesday its board has declared a dividend of $1.50 a share for the first quarter, up from $1.49 a share. The dividend is payable on March 12 to shareholders of record on F...

Why Layoffs at 3M, Dow Are More Concerning Than Amazon, Google and Microsoft

Layoffs are spreading beyond tech. That’s a troubling trend investors should be paying attention to. On Thursday, chemicals giant Dow Inc. (ticker: DOW) reported weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter nu...

3M stock dips after earnings miss, company plans to cut 2,500 jobs

Shares of 3M Co. MMM, +1.63% were down nearly 4% in premarket action Tuesday after the manufacturing giant missed profit expectations for the latest quarter and delivered a downbeat earnings outlook f...

3M, Lyft, Verizon, Lululemon, and More Stock Market Movers

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Dividends In The Bargain Bin! 4 Cheap Yields Up To 9%

Studio shot of a waste basket filled with money getty Thank you, bear market. Thanks to a terrible 2022, we have four dirt-cheap dividend payers dishing up to 9%. These are cash cows I’m talking about...

Tesla Could Be a ‘Zombie Stock’ as Interest Rates Rise

A longtime pessimist about Tesla says the shares could be headed for what he calls “zombie stock” territory. David Trainer, CEO of stock research firm New Constructs, who wrote in August 2013 that Tes...

3M Earns Quick Appellate Review of Earplug Unit’s Bankruptcy Shield

A federal appeals court granted 3M Co. ’s request to review a bankruptcy judge’s refusal to stop mass injury lawsuits from proceeding against the conglomerate following the chapter 11 filing of its ea...

Legal liabilities drag 3M (MMM) stock down to a 9-year low

3M (NYSE: MMM) fell as much as -1.2% on September 22 to reach a 9-year low of $113.43 a share. Market participants seem to be worried by the mountain of lawsuits filed against the company, as the firm...

3M stock extends bounce after UBS recommends investors stop selling, saying sentiment is ‘washed out’

Shares of 3M Co. extended their bounce Friday, after a long-time bearish analyst said investors should stop selling, as the recent “derating” in price suggests all litigation liability has already bee...

Kings & Aristocrats: 5 Retirement Favorites

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3M’s Next Problem For Investors Could Be The Dividend.

Text size 3M’s CEO says the dividend is a high priority for the company. Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg 3M investors have had to endure a lot lately, with a slowing economy, rising inflation, and toug...

3M Plans Job Cuts to Rein in Expenses as Legal Troubles Grow

Text size 3M suffered a legal setback last week when a judge denied a motion that would have limited payouts. Alamy 3M , the maker of Post-it notes and Scotch tape, plans to eliminate jobs in a cost-c...

3M’s Bankruptcy Setback Deepens Earplug Litigation Troubles

3M Co. had good reason to bet that it could use U.S. bankruptcy laws to shield itself from a mountain of personal-injury lawsuits filed over its allegedly defective military earplugs. But after a bank...

3M Stock Reels From Legal Setback, EPA News

Text size 3M Scotch brand shipping tape. Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg The conglomerate 3M is facing a couple of legal risks that are weighing on its shares. Investors’ approach has been to sell first and ...

3M Is Out, Find Other Dividend Stocks Instead

3M Company (MMM) got hammered on Friday afternoon after a federal judge ruled that 230,000 lawsuits for defective military earplugs can proceed against 3M despite the bankruptcy of its subsidiary that...

3M Stock Drops. Judge Says No to Bankruptcy Plan to Deal With Legal Liability.

Text size 3M stock was dealt a blow by a U.S. bankruptcy judge on Friday. Alamy 3M stock posted its biggest one-day decline since April 2019 after a legal ruling went against the company. On Friday af...

3M stock suffers worst day since 2019 after judge denies protection from earplug lawsuits

3M Co. stock tumbled 9.5% on Friday, pacing the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s steep decline after reports indicated that a bankruptcy judge blocked a request from 3M that would have shielded the comp...

Only 5 S&P 500 stocks ended higher after Powell’s sobering Jackson Hole speech

It took only a 10-minute speech from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday to clarify that monetary policy would be relentlessly tightened in the months ahead. Investors dumped stocks, send...

3M Is Denied Bankruptcy Shield Against Mass Earplug Claims

A bankruptcy judge declined on Friday to shield 3M Co. from continued litigation involving its military earplugs, a setback for the conglomerate’s attempt to shift the mass injury claims to a friendli...

3M Unit Defends Request to Shield Parent From Mass Earplug Lawsuits

Lawyers representing 3M Co. ’s bankrupt Aearo Technologies LLC subsidiary defended its request to a bankruptcy judge to extend a litigation stay to the parent company to resolve mass earplug lawsuits,...

Judge Knocks 3M Bankruptcy Strategy for Military Earplug Lawsuits

A federal judge criticized 3M Co. ’s attempt to use the protections of chapter 11 to resolve mass injury claims by U.S. military veterans, but will allow a bankruptcy court to decide whether to shield...

Industrious Investing: 3 Industrials With 3% or Higher Dividend Yields

Industrials offer a good source of long-term dividend growth and supply a surprisingly large number of stocks with very long histories of raising dividends. In fact, 13 of the 65 Dividend Aristocrats ...

In a busy morning 3M announces healthcare spin off, mixed earnings and subsidiary’s voluntary bankruptcy

3M Co. was busy before market open Tuesday, announcing the planned spinoff of its healthcare business, second-quarter results, and the voluntary bankruptcy of the company’s Aearo Technologies subsidia...

Apple, Visa, Microsoft, Exxon Mobil, Chipotle, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It will be a busy week on both the micro and macro fronts. Second-quarter earnings season ramps up, as more than 150 S&P 500 firms report, including Big Tech. The Federal Reserve’s policy committe...

3M Earplugs Fight Stems From Self-Made Legal Battle

A long-running legal battle over allegedly defective earplugs made by 3M arose after the company initiated a separate dispute against a smaller competitor, court documents showed. 3M’s effort to prote...

3M Looks Like a Clean Bargain, Until You Realize a Dirty Truth

3M (MMM)  is one of the great American industrial companies. The Minnesota-based conglomerate has survived through every economy and market cycle since it went public in 1929. MMM trades at a steep di...

A GE Bear Looks Into 2023. He Doesn’t Like What He Sees.

Text size The General Electric logo is displayed on the outside of jet-engine test tunnels. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg We are in the second half of the year, and 2022 earnings estimates will start to giv...

The Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

Robots Pick Up More Work at Busy Factories

Robots are turning up on more factory floors and assembly lines as companies struggle to hire enough workers to fill rising orders. Orders for workplace robots in the U.S. increased by a record 40% du...

The Chip Sector Has a New Worry in Plant Shutdown for Key PFAS Chemicals

Text size PFAS chemicals are used in the etching process for chip manufacturing. Dreamstime The fragile semiconductor supply chain has one more thing to worry about. Chips have been relatively scarce ...