{"id":28988,"date":"2012-04-26T03:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T07:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=28988"},"modified":"2012-04-26T03:50:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T07:50:41","slug":"3m-beats-estimates-and-boosts-guidance-mmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/26\/3m-beats-estimates-and-boosts-guidance-mmm\/","title":{"rendered":"3M Beats Estimates And Boosts Guidance (MMM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v00680e76d10f603923bc866630d2cc5afa854758&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v00680e76d10f603923bc866630d2cc5afa854758&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>3m (NYSE:MMM) reported Q1 EPS of $1.63, vs. estimates of $1.49.Revenues in the quarter came in at $7.49 billion, vs. estimates of $7.44 billion.The company sees annual EPS $6.35-$6.50, had seen $6.25-$6.50, vs. estimates of $6.29.3M still sees 2012 organic sales volume growth 2%-5%, and operating income margins 21%-22.5%.SmarTrend is bullish on shares of 3M and our subscribers were alerted to buy on December 06, 2011 at $82.20. The stock has risen 6% since the alert was issued.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/26\/1_iki6ogx8_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/26\/1_iki6ogx8_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3m (NYSE:MMM) reported Q1 EPS of $1.63, vs. estimates of $1.49.Revenues in the quarter came in at $7.49 billion, vs. estimates of $7.44 billion.The company sees annual EPS $6.35-$6.50, had seen $6.25-$6.50, vs. estimates of $6.29.3M still sees 2012 organic sales volume growth 2%-5%, and operating income margins 21%-22.5%.SmarTrend is bullish on shares of 3M &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/26\/3m-beats-estimates-and-boosts-guidance-mmm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3M Beats Estimates And Boosts Guidance (MMM)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}