MMM·3M Company

Realized volatility (21d)

20.3% 52nd pct

Below its peak

-24.9%

vs 200-day average

+1.4%

Up days (1y)

51%

3M Company is currently running 20.3% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against MMM's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 52nd percentile — close to its own typical level, against a typical reading of 20.0%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.

MMM is trading -24.9% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -20.1%, and the deepest was -40.6% in 2022. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began — and where past declines also continued.

Price sits +1.4% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 47th percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year MMM closed higher on 51% of sessions, and it is currently 3 sessions into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 14 years of records, MMM finished the month higher 10 of 14 times, with a median return of +2.5% and an average of +2.7%. Its strongest month historically has been July at +4.1% on average, its weakest September at -2.4%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.

Overnight risk is measurable too: MMM has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 35 of 3,268 sessions (1.1% of the time), with the largest gaps running +7.0% and -7.1%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

Across the last 3 dated reports on file, MMM moved an average of 0.9% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -0.1% and a largest of -2.5%.

All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-10-15 and 2026-10-14, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against MMM's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.