3M is a diversified industrial company with worldwide operations organized into four segments. The stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500. The company employs approximately 85,000 people.

The Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) rebounded to its 21-day exponential average and a 50% retracement of the recent pullback on Friday, April 26, and then stalled. As long as the index does not make a lower low, the next and more-important resistance is the breakdown level up at 435 -- which is also a 61.8% retracement and the location of the 50-day moving average. The two most-common pullbacks are a three-wave and a five-wave decline. It is still unclear what is currently in play, but we would lean toward a new pullback low.

3M is a multinational conglomerate that has operated since 1902, when it was known as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. The company is well known for its research and development laboratory and it leverages its science and technology across multiple product categories. As of the second quarter of 2024, 3M is organized across three business segments: safety and industrial, transportation and electronics, and consumer. Nearly 50% of the company’s revenue comes from outside the Americas, with the safety and industrial segment constituting a plurality of net sales. Many of the company’s tens of thousands of products touch and concern a variety of consumers and end markets.

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