# 3M COMPANY (MMM) FY2024 Annual Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: 3M COMPANY (MMM)
- Period: 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31
- Filing: FY2024 10-K, filed 2025-02-05, accession number 0000066740-25-000006
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/mmm/fy2024-annual-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/mmm-fy2024-annual-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Jan 1, 2024 through Dec 31, 2024. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. Beginning cash: Dec 31, 2023. Ending cash: Dec 31, 2024. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Dec 31, 2023**: 5,933,000,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Operating activities**: 1,819,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Accounts payable**: 46,000,000 US dollars
- **Accrued income taxes (current and long-term)**: negative 272,000,000 US dollars
- **Net income (loss) including noncontrolling interest**: 4,188,000,000 US dollars
- **Company pension and postretirement expense**: 1,035,000,000 US dollars
- **Deferred income taxes**: 321,000,000 US dollars
- **Inventories**: 41,000,000 US dollars
- **Other — net**: negative 5,152,000,000 US dollars
- **Company pension and postretirement contributions**: negative 154,000,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation and amortization**: 1,363,000,000 US dollars
- **Accounts receivable**: 114,000,000 US dollars
- **Stock-based compensation expense**: 289,000,000 US dollars
- **Gain on business divestitures**: 0 US dollars
- **Long-lived and indefinite-lived asset impairment expense**: 0 US dollars
- **Goodwill impairment expense**: 0 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 3,206,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Purchases of property, plant and equipment (PP&E)**: negative 1,181,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from sale of PP&E and other assets**: 61,000,000 US dollars
- **Other — net**: negative 7,000,000 US dollars
- **Purchases of marketable securities and investments**: negative 4,153,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from maturities and sale of marketable securities and investments**: 2,074,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from sale of businesses, net of cash sold**: 0 US dollars
- **Cash payment from Food Safety business split-off, net of divested cash**: 0 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: 1,098,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Change in short-term debt — net**: negative 205,000,000 US dollars
- **Repayment of debt (maturities greater than 90 days)**: negative 2,656,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from debt (maturities greater than 90 days)**: 8,367,000,000 US dollars
- **Purchases of treasury stock**: negative 1,801,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from issuance of treasury stock pursuant to stock option and benefit plans**: 92,000,000 US dollars
- **Dividends paid to shareholders**: negative 1,982,000,000 US dollars
- **Other — net**: negative 96,000,000 US dollars
- **Cash transferred to Solventum related to separation, net**: negative 621,000,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 5,578,000,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the operating reconciliation branches. Its gross amount includes any portion of net income routed through this junction. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **financing gross reconciliation**: 8,459,000,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **investing gross reconciliation**: 5,341,000,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **Exchange-rate effect**: negative 44,000,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Dec 31, 2024**: 5,600,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Cash sources and uses**: 8,850,000,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: negative 333,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: 0.43×. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. Black from 0.90× through 1.10×; green above 1.10×; red below 0.90×. Color uses the unrounded ratio.
- **Operating cash flow**: 1,819,000,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 1,181,000,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 638,000,000 US dollars. A supplemental measure; finance-lease payments are excluded from this definition.

### Chart connections

- Beginning cash plus operating, investing and financing cash flows plus the exchange-rate effect equals ending cash. Negative amounts reduce cash.
- Financing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Investing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Operating reconciliation adjustments are not all independent cash receipts.
- Net income exceeds operating cash. The diagram allocates $1.82B of net income directly to operating cash and $2.37B to the adjustment junction, where it combines with other additions to reconcile deductions. This is an accounting presentation, not a tracing of cash receipts.
- Each activity has one net cash bar connected to the shared cash pool. Positive activity totals enter the pool; negative activity totals leave the pool to fund that activity's net payments. The central pool does not assign a particular funding source to a particular payment.
- The intermediate calculation bars include both sides of the displayed activity breakdowns; they are not additional cash flows.
- Cash-flow net income is $4.19 B; the income statement reports $4.17 B for the same period. The difference is $15.00 M. Neither amount has been adjusted.
- Operating cash flow minus cash purchases of property, plant and equipment equals free cash flow: 1,819,000,000 US dollars minus 1,181,000,000 US dollars equals 638,000,000 US dollars.
- Cash-flow net income is $4.19 B; the income statement reports $4.17 B for the same period. The difference is $15.00 M. Neither amount has been adjusted.