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Financial Facts - Year-end 2006


3M is one of 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

Sales

Worldwide
$22.923 billion
International (non-US)
$11.070 billion

61 per cent of company's total

Net Income

Net Income
$3.851 billion
Per cent to sales
16.8 per cent
Earnings per share – diluted
$5.06

Taxes

Income tax expense
$1.723 billion

Dividends

(Paid every quarter since 1916)

Cash dividends per share
$1.84
One original share, if held, is now
3,072 shares

R&D and Related Expenditures

For 2006
$1.522 billion
Total for past five years
$6.390 billion

Capital Spending

For 2006
$1.168 million
Total for past five years
$4.448 billion

Employees

Worldwide
75,33
United States
34,553
International
40,780

Patents

U.S. Patents Awarded in 2006
570