The market is barley trading higher today as strong profit reports from names like Apple Inc. (APPL) and 3M Corp. (MMM) failed to galvanize Wall Street a day after the Dow Jones industrials crossed the 13,000 mark.
You know how we feel about 3M, the fools that tossed that stock in the wood chipper were just wrong to bet against Post-It Notes.
Despite blowing through Wall Street estimates with surprise first-quarter strength in internal and foreign sales, 3M Co.’s CEO Thursday shied from lifting the company’s full-year profit forecast, saying he "just wanted to get another piece of data" before tweaking views.
Revenue at the St. Paul, Minn. manufacturer swelled 6.1% in the three months ended March 31 to $5.94 billion, beating forecasts of $5.68 billion, as polled by Thomson Financial.
Proving that potato pancakes in the mid-west are worth banking on.
3M is the midst of expanding or building 19 factories around the world in an effort to expand its ability to roll out more of the office supplies, construction materials and technology products that support sales growth.
The stock is up 4% today, 1-2-shabadoo people. 
So those of you that put your 3M shares in the wood chipper, you can betcha’ Marge Gunderson will have a word of two fer ya.
Marge Gunderson: So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There’s more to life than a little money, you know. Don’t you know that? And here ya are, and it’s a beautiful day. Well, I just don’t understand it.
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