CLAIM #42672 · 3M Company (MMM) · 2025Q4 earnings call · Jan 20, 2026 · due Dec 31, 2026
“even though IPI is coming down, you know, our commercial initiatives, our NPI initiatives, it is going to allow us to get to outperform that macro, and we expect that to accelerate in '26 from what we have experienced in '25.”
William Brown · CEO
How to check this claim
Look at: Company organic sales growth rate relative to overall electronics end-market growth rate (outperformance gap)
It came true if: FY2026 organic growth outperformance versus market/IPI benchmark is greater than FY2025 outperformance (i.e., the growth gap widens year over year)
Where: management commentary and organic sales growth disclosures in quarterly earnings calls/10-K (FY2026 results and full-year 2026 call)
In context
“. We have to watch that. Consumer electronics are looking a little bit more flattish in terms of the overall macro forecast. Of course, we believe in our business electronics will continue to grow. We still see that to be overall electronics up mid-single digits for the year. And, of course, you know, we are watching very carefully what happens in the US consumer market. Right now, it feels subdued. We had a very, very good December, although Q4 came in down 2.2%. So it dropped the year to being negative for consumer, but December we typically see the third month pretty good, but it was up double digits over the prior year in December and, you know, early in January. Again, it is early this year, you know, we are looking okay. So, you know, that is sort of the landscape, but I do see that even though IPI is coming down, you know, our commercial initiatives, our NPI initiatives, it is going to allow us to get to outperform that macro, and we expect that to accelerate in '26 from what we have experienced in '25. Jeff Sprague: Great. Thanks for that. You bet, Jeff. Sure. Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Scott Davis with Melius Research. Please proceed with your question. Scott Davis: Hey, good morning, guys. Good morning, Scott. Thanks. Thanks for the detail. I guess, I do not think you mentioned inventory levels, customer inventory levels in the prepared remarks. And just as we exited 2025, where is your sense of where your customer inventory levels were or are? I guess now kind of point of reference kind of pre-COVID post-COVID kind of the new normal versus kind of pre-COVID? Just a little color around that, I think, would be helpful. Bill Brown: Sure. That is a good question. So on the industrial channels, it is pretty normalized. You know, it is in the sort of sixty-day range”
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SEC filings for MMM ↗ · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2025Q4 earnings call.