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TableofContents
PARTII
Item5.MarketforRegistrant’sCommonEquity,RelatedStockholderMattersandIssuerPurchasesofEquitySecurities.
Equitycompensationplans’informationisincorporatedbyreferencefromPartIII,Item12,“SecurityOwnershipofCertain
BeneficialOwnersandManagementandRelatedStockholderMatters,”ofthisdocument,andshouldbeconsideredanintegralpart
ofItem5.AtJanuary31,2016,therewere84,607shareholdersofrecord.3M’sstockislistedontheNewYorkStock
Exchange,Inc.(NYSE),theChicagoStockExchange,Inc.,andtheSWXSwissExchange.Cashdividendsdeclaredandpaidtotaled
$1.025pershareforeachofthesecond,third,andfourthquartersof2015.Cashdividendsdeclaredinthefourthquarterof2014
includedadividendpaidinNovember2014of$0.855pershareandadividendpaidinMarch2015of$1.025pershare.Cash
dividendsdeclaredandpaidtotaled$0.855pershareforeachofthesecondandthirdquartersof2014.Cashdividendsdeclaredin
thefourthquarterof2013includeadividendpaidinMarch2014of$0.855pershare.Stockpricecomparisonsfollow:
Stockpricecomparisons(NYSEcompositetransactions)
    
(Pershareamounts) FirstQuarter Second
Quarter ThirdQuarter Fourth
Quarter Total
2015High $ 170.50 $ 167.70 $ 157.94 $ 160.09 $ 170.50
2015Low 157.74 153.92 134.00 138.57 134.00
2014High $ 139.29  $ 145.53  $ 147.87  $ 168.16  $ 168.16 
2014Low  123.61  132.02  138.43 130.60  123.61
IssuerPurchasesofEquitySecurities
Repurchasesof3McommonstockaremadetosupporttheCompany’sstock-basedemployeecompensationplansandforother
corporatepurposes.InFebruary2014,3M’sBoardofDirectorsauthorizedtherepurchaseofupto$12billionof3M’soutstanding
commonstock,withnopre-establishedenddate.InFebruary2016,3M’sBoardofDirectorsreplacedtheCompany’sFebruary
2014repurchaseprogramwithanewrepurchaseprogram.Thisnewprogramauthorizestherepurchaseofupto$10billionof3M’s
outstandingcommonstock,withnopre-establishedenddate.
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