# 3M COMPANY (MMM) FY2024 Q3 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: 3M COMPANY (MMM)
- Period: 2024-07-01 to 2024-09-30
- Filing: Q3 FY2024 10-Q, filed 2024-10-22, accession number 0000066740-24-000101
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/mmm/fy2024-q3-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/mmm-fy2024-q3-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Jul 1, 2024 through Sep 30, 2024. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. Beginning cash: Jun 30, 2024. Ending cash: Sep 30, 2024. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Jun 30, 2024**: 10,083,000,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Operating activities**: negative 1,787,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Accounts payable**: negative 158,000,000 US dollars
- **Accrued income taxes (current and long-term)**: 20,000,000 US dollars
- **Net income (loss) including noncontrolling interest**: 1,376,000,000 US dollars
- **Company pension and postretirement expense**: 55,000,000 US dollars
- **Deferred income taxes**: 178,000,000 US dollars
- **Inventories**: 98,000,000 US dollars
- **Other — net**: negative 3,810,000,000 US dollars
- **Company pension and postretirement contributions**: negative 30,000,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation and amortization**: 310,000,000 US dollars
- **Accounts receivable**: 132,000,000 US dollars
- **Stock-based compensation expense**: 42,000,000 US dollars
- **Gain on business divestitures**: 0 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 1,204,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Purchases of property, plant and equipment (PP&E)**: negative 246,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from sale of PP&E and other assets**: 2,000,000 US dollars
- **Other — net**: 2,000,000 US dollars
- **Purchases of marketable securities and investments**: negative 1,277,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from maturities and sale of marketable securities and investments**: 315,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from sale of businesses, net of cash sold**: 0 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: negative 1,085,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Change in short-term debt — net**: 0 US dollars
- **Repayment of debt (maturities greater than 90 days)**: 0 US dollars
- **Proceeds from debt (maturities greater than 90 days)**: 0 US dollars
- **Purchases of treasury stock**: negative 675,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from issuance of treasury stock pursuant to stock option and benefit plans**: 38,000,000 US dollars
- **Dividends paid to shareholders**: negative 383,000,000 US dollars
- **Other — net**: negative 26,000,000 US dollars
- **Cash transferred to Solventum related to separation, net**: negative 39,000,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 3,998,000,000 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**: 1,123,000,000 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**: 1,523,000,000 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**: 43,000,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Sep 30, 2024**: 6,050,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Cash sources and uses**: 10,126,000,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: negative 4,033,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: −1.30×. 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**: negative 1,787,000,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 246,000,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: negative 2,033,000,000 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 or operating cash is negative. The full signed reconciliation is retained: losses remain deductions, and any negative operating-cash total enters the junction from the cash pool. No positive direct-income connection is implied.
- 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 $1.38 B, derived by subtracting the earlier cumulative period; the income statement reports $1.37 B for the same period. The difference is $4.00 M. Neither amount has been adjusted.
- Operating cash flow minus cash purchases of property, plant and equipment equals free cash flow: negative 1,787,000,000 US dollars minus 246,000,000 US dollars equals negative 2,033,000,000 US dollars.
- Cash-flow net income is $1.38 B, derived by subtracting the earlier cumulative period; the income statement reports $1.37 B for the same period. The difference is $4.00 M. Neither amount has been adjusted.