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CLAIM #42598 · 3M Company (MMM) · 2025Q2 earnings call · Jul 18, 2025 · due Dec 31, 2025

we do see the back half on safety accelerating there as well because of both a couple of wins that we've had, but some new product introductions.

William Brown · CEO

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hat laterally, but -- generally speaking, the opportunities we're seeing here are principally coming from self-help. There's some in the markets. We know A&D is going to be picking up for us in the back half. It wasn't as strong in the first as we had expected, some internal, some external issues, but we see that picking up for us in the back half. Electrical markets remain very robust for us. Again, we expect that to be high single digits going into the back half. So that's kind of a nutshell on the safety side on or on the general industry side. On safety, we had a good start to the year. We see some acceleration in the back half. Part of it is from new product introduction, in fire safety, SCBA. We've launched a new product that and we've had some big wins with government customers. So we do see the back half on safety accelerating there as well because of both a couple of wins that we've had, but some new product introductions. Julian Mitchell: That's great. And then just focusing a little bit on the second half guidance. Often your third quarter earnings are up a little bit sequentially, but I understand you had that $0.06 gain moving into the second quarter. Maybe help us understand how we should be thinking about third quarter versus fourth quarter dynamics. Anything to call out on sales or the margin progression? Anurag Maheshwari: Yes. Thanks, Julian. It's Anurag here. So listen, within the second half, let's just first start with the top line. Our guidance for the full year is approximately 2% organic growth. In the first half, we grew 1.5%. So that would imply a 2.5% growth in the back half. And we're expecting probably Q3 and Q4 to grow at similar levels around there. In terms of EPS, Q3 is historically

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