3M MMM

equity

Price History

1962-01 · DCA start$3.45

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

1962-012026-08 · -12.3%

Worst drawdown: −64%, peaking Jan 2018 and bottoming Oct 2023 — still unrecovered after 103 months.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $77,600
Value today: $1,257,380
Return: +1520.3%
Months invested: 776

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $290,034 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +333.5%.

Lump sum instead — $77,600 all at once in Jan 1962: $4,134,920 (+5228.5%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jan 2018): $14,805 on $10,400 invested (+42.4%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1962-01: +1520.3%

About 3M

The 3M Company is an American multinational conglomerate operating in the fields of industry, worker safety, and consumer goods. Based in the Saint Paul suburb of Maplewood, the company produces over 60,000 products, including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, personal protective equipment, window films, paint protection film, electrical, electronic connecting, insulating materials, car-care products, electronic circuits, and optical films. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials and industrial conglomerates, with a market cap of about $94.8B.

It rates High Risk at 2.8/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and leverage / financial (3.0/5).

Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

High Risk(2.8/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.7/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)3/527.5
Max drawdown from ATH3/563.7
Beta vs S&P 5002/50.79

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5638.1m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial3.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equity5/54.3
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/510.3

Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility5/5100

Concentrationunrated · weight 10%

Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched

Governanceunrated · weight 10%

Board independence %not yet researched
Share structurenot yet researched
Litigation / audit historynot yet researched

Sector / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%

Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

Linked Assets

Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.