3M Trims Its 2019 Earnings Guidance, but Don't Blame China
With bellwethers like Caterpillar and NVIDIA fumbling on earnings thanks to China, investors in 3M (NYSE:MMM) were getting increasingly jittery about what to expect from the industrial conglomerate's fourth-quarter earnings report, considering that 3M derived 10% of sales from China/Hong Kong in 2017. 3M confirmed some of the market's fears when it downgraded the lower end of its organic sales growth guidance for fiscal 2019 by a percentage point to 1% on Jan. 29, citing weak demand from China.
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