3M Reports First-Quarter 2018 Results
First-Quarter Highlights:
- Sales of $8.3 billion, up 7.7 percent year-on-year
- Organic local-currency sales growth of 2.8 percent; growth across all business groups
- GAAP EPS of $0.98, down 55 percent year-on-year
- Adjusted EPS of $2.50, up 15.7 percent year-on-year, excluding adjustments to provisional accounting for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and a legal settlement
- Returned $1.7 billion to shareholders via dividends and gross share repurchases
April 24, 2018 07:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M (NYSE: MMM) today reported first-quarter 2018 results.
“Coming off a strong 2017, our team opened the new year with broad-based organic growth of three percent, with positive growth across all business groups,” said Inge G. Thulin, 3M chairman, president and chief executive officer. “We also continued to invest in our commercialization capabilities, while returning significant cash to our shareholders – including a 16 percent dividend increase. Going forward we will continue to execute the 3M Playbook and leverage the world-class capabilities of our people and our enterprise, and I am confident we will deliver strong results in 2018.”
Sales were up 7.7 percent to $8.3 billion. Organic local-currency sales increased 2.8 percent while acquisitions, net of divestitures, increased sales by 0.7 percent. Foreign currency translation increased sales by 4.2 percent year-on-year.
Total sales grew 15.0 percent in Safety and Graphics, 7.1 percent in Industrial, 7.1 percent in Health Care, 5.0 percent in Consumer, and 4.6 percent in Electronics and Energy. Organic local-currency sales increased 6.9 percent in Safety and Graphics, 2.7 percent in Health Care, 2.2 percent in Industrial, 2.1 percent in Consumer, and 1.7 percent in Electronics and Energy.
On a geographic basis, total sales grew 13.7 percent in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), 10.0 percent in Asia Pacific, 4.3 percent in Latin America/Canada, and 3.5 percent in the U.S. Organic local-currency sales increased 4.9 percent in Asia Pacific, 3.5 percent in Latin America/Canada, 2.3 percent in the U.S., and 0.1 percent in EMEA.
First-quarter GAAP earnings were $0.98 per share, a decrease of 55 percent versus the first quarter of 2017. During the quarter, the company recorded an expense of $217 million, or $0.36 per share, related to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). In addition, the company resolved a previously disclosed lawsuit with the State of Minnesota and recorded a pre-tax charge of $897 million, inclusive of legal fees and other related obligations, resulting in a reduction to first quarter earnings of $1.16 per share. Excluding these two items, earnings were $2.50 per share, an increase of 15.7 percent year-on-year, as referenced in the “Supplemental Financial Information Non-GAAP Measures” section.
First-quarter operating income was $1.0 billion with operating margins of 12.2 percent. Excluding the legal settlement, operating income was $1.9 billion with operating margins of 23.0 percent.
3M paid $810 million in cash dividends to shareholders and repurchased $937 million of its own shares during the quarter.
The company updated its 2018 GAAP earnings expectations to be in the range of $8.68 to $9.03 per share. Excluding the first quarter impact of the TCJA-related expense and the legal settlement, 3M expects its adjusted full-year 2018 earnings to be in the range of $10.20 to $10.55 per share versus a prior expectation of $10.20 to $10.70 per share. The company also updated its organic local-currency sales growth guidance to be in the range of 3 to 4 percent, versus a prior range of 3 to 5 percent.
First-Quarter Business Group Discussion
Industrial
- Sales of $3.1 billion, up 7.1 percent in U.S. dollars. Organic local-currency sales increased 2.2 percent, and foreign currency translation increased sales by 4.9 percent.
- On an organic local-currency basis:
- Sales growth was led by abrasives, automotive and aerospace, and industrial adhesives and tapes; automotive aftermarket declined.
- Sales grew in Asia Pacific, Latin America/Canada, and the U.S.; EMEA was flat.
- Operating income was $719 million, an increase of 7.3 percent year-on-year; operating margin of 22.9 percent.
Safety and Graphics
- Sales of $1.8 billion, up 15.0 percent in U.S. dollars. Organic local-currency sales increased 6.9 percent, foreign currency translation increased sales by 4.9 percent, and acquisitions, net of divestitures, increased sales by 3.2 percent.
- On an organic local-currency basis:
- Sales increased in all businesses, led by personal safety, commercial solutions, and roofing granules.
- Sales grew in all geographic areas led by Asia Pacific, the U.S., and EMEA.
- Operating income was $483 million, up 21.1 percent year-on-year; operating margin of 27.1 percent.
Health Care
- Sales of $1.5 billion, up 7.1 percent in U.S. dollars. Organic local-currency sales increased 2.7 percent, foreign currency translation increased sales by 4.3 percent, and acquisitions increased sales by 0.1 percent.
- On an organic local-currency basis:
- Sales growth was led by food safety, health information systems, and medical consumables; drug delivery declined.
- Sales increased in Asia Pacific, Latin America/Canada, and the U.S.; EMEA was flat.
- Operating income was $460 million, an increase of 7.0 percent year-on-year; operating margin of 29.9 percent.
Electronics and Energy
- Sales of $1.4 billion, up 4.6 percent in U.S. dollars. Organic local-currency sales increased 1.7 percent, foreign currency translation increased sales by 3.1 percent and divestitures decreased sales by 0.2 percent.
- On an organic local-currency basis:
- Electronics-related sales increased 3 percent with growth in electronics materials solutions partially offset by a decline in display materials and systems; energy-related sales declined 2 percent.
- Sales grew in Asia Pacific, while Latin America/Canada was flat; the U.S. and EMEA declined.
- Operating income was $337 million, an increase of 31.3 percent year-on-year; operating margin of 24.9 percent.
Consumer
- Sales of $1.1 billion, up 5.0 percent in U.S. dollars. Organic local-currency sales increased 2.1 percent and foreign currency translation increased sales by 2.9 percent.
- On an organic local-currency basis:
- Sales grew in home improvement and home care; consumer health care declined.
- Sales grew in the U.S. and Latin America/Canada; EMEA and Asia Pacific declined.
- Operating income was $218 million, down 2.4 percent year-on-year; operating margin of 19.3 percent.
3M will conduct an investor teleconference at 9:00 a.m. EDT (8:00 a.m. CDT) today. Investors can access this conference via the following:
- Live webcast at http://investors.3M.com.
- Live telephone:
Call 800-762-2596 within the U.S. or +1 212-231-2916 outside the U.S. Please join the call at least 10 minutes before the start time.
- Webcast replay:
Go to 3M’s Investor Relations website at http://investors.3M.com and click on “Quarterly Earnings.”
- Telephone replay:
Call 800-633-8284 within the U.S. or +1 402-977-9140 outside the U.S. (for both U.S. and outside the U.S., the access code is 21863181). The telephone replay will be available until 11:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 a.m. CDT) on May 1, 2018.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking information about 3M's financial results and estimates and business prospects that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. You can identify these statements by the use of words such as "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "aim," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," "will," "should," "could," "target," "forecast" and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance or business plans or prospects. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company’s funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (the “Reports”). Changes in such assumptions or factors could produce significantly different results. A further description of these factors is located in the Reports under "Cautionary Note Concerning Factors That May Affect Future Results" and "Risk Factors" in Part I, Items 1 and 1A (Annual Report) and in Part I, Item 2 and Part II, Item 1A (Quarterly Reports). The information contained in this news release is as of the date indicated. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this news release as a result of new information or future events or developments.
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BUSINESS SEGMENTS
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As part of 3M’s continuing effort to improve the alignment of its businesses around markets and customers, the Company made the following changes, effective in the first quarter of 2018, and other revisions impacting business segment reporting:
Consolidation of customer account activity within international countries – expanding dual credit reporting
- The Company consolidated its customer account activity in each country into centralized sales districts for certain countries that make up approximately 70 percent of 3M’s 2017 international net sales. Expansion of these initiatives, which previously had been deployed only in the U.S., reduces the complexity for customers when interacting with multiple 3M businesses. 3M business segment reporting measures include dual credit to business segments for certain sales and related operating income. This dual credit is based on which business segment provides customer account activity with respect to a particular product sold in a specific country. The expansion of alignment of customer accounts within additional countries increased the attribution of dual credit across 3M’s business segments. Additionally, certain sales and operating income results for electronic bonding product lines that were previously equally divided between the Electronics and Energy business segment and the Industrial business segment are now reported similarly to dual credit. As a result, previously reported aggregate business segment net sales and operating income for total year 2017 increased $1.568 billion and $402 million, respectively, offset by similar increases in the elimination of dual credit net sales and operating income amounts.
Centralization of manufacturing and supply technology platforms
- Certain shared film manufacturing and supply technology platform resources formerly reflected within the Electronics and Energy business segment were combined with other shared and centrally managed material resource centers of expertise within Corporate and Unallocated. This change resulted in a decrease in previously reported net sales and an increase in operating income for total year 2017 of $1 million and $42 million, respectively, in the Electronics and Energy segment, offset by a corresponding increase in net sales and decrease in operating income within Corporate and Unallocated.
In addition, 3M adopted ASU N0. 2017-07, Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost, effective January 1, 2018, on a retrospective basis. As a result, operating income for 3M’s business segments has been revised to reflect non-service cost related pension and postretirement net periodic benefit costs within other expense (income) net.
The financial information presented herein reflects the impact of the preceding changes for all periods presented. Refer to 3M’s Current Report on Form 8-K furnished on March 15, 2018, for additional supplemental unaudited historical business segment net sales and operating income information.
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