- Pays: quarterly — 227 dividends in our record since 1970.
- The reset: May 2024 — alongside spinning off its healthcare business (Solventum), 3M reset the quarterly to $0.70, ending a raise streak that had run over six decades and defined the term Dividend King.
- The rebuild: two raises since — to $0.73 in February 2025 and $0.78 in February 2026, up 11% from the reset level. A new streak, two years old.
- Today's yield: $3.07 over the trailing year — about 1.7% of the recent ~$179.37 price.
- The lesson: even 60-year streaks are policies, not laws — and what a company does in the two years after breaking one tells you what the next decade's policy is.
Our chart shows 3M's pre-2024 payments in spin-off-adjusted terms, which lowers the displayed old amounts — the May 2024 reset was roughly a 44% reduction in adjusted terms. The streak that ended was one of the longest in market history; the two consecutive raises since are the beginning of whatever replaces it.
Each point is one 3M dividend since 1970 (spin-off-adjusted). Six decades of stairs, one step down in 2024, and two small new steps since.
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Each point is one payment; the line ends at the most recent payout. The table below totals them by year.
- Trailing 12 months: $3.07 per share across 4 payments — up 6% from $2.89 in the 12 months before (split-adjusted, in today's share terms). What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $2.92 — 5% below the trailing figure. When those two disagree, the trailing yield is quoting the past. Live cut & raise board →
- Share price, same 12 months: up 10% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 227 payments over 56 years; the largest single payment was $1.26 (Feb 2024), split-adjusted.
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: 3. Get alerted to the next one →
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"Next expected" is estimated from MMM's recent payment rhythm — the fund announces exact dates shortly before each payout, and the data feed can lag a few days. You must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout; the cash typically arrives days later. See every fund's upcoming date on the live dividend calendar.
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For generations, 3M was the textbook Dividend King — a raise every year since the 1960s. That ended in May 2024, when the Solventum healthcare spin-off came with a payout reset to $0.70 a quarter, roughly 44% below the adjusted prior level. What the record shows since matters more than the cut: $0.73 in February 2025, $0.78 in February 2026 — an 11% climb off the bottom, two Februaries running. The old streak is gone; a new one is two years old.
The instructive contrasts: AT&T cut in 2022 and froze; 3M cut in 2024 and immediately resumed raising. Same broken streak, opposite sequels. The compare tool draws both against the still-unbroken streaks like XOM's.
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Data source: Yahoo Finance. Figures are per share; the current year may be partial and figures should be verified against official sources.
Calculated from complete calendar years in the data above. Past results don't guarantee future payments.
When Is MMM's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
MMM pays quarterly — usually going ex-dividend in February, May, August, and November. The exact date of each payout is announced by the fund only shortly beforehand, so no site can promise the next date — but the live schedule box above shows the most recent ex-dividend date and the expected window for the next one, computed from MMM's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
The Longest Streak on Our Site, Until It Wasn't
3M's record in our data runs 227 quarterly payments back to 1970, and for almost the entire span the annual total only went up — the six-decade streak that made MMM a cornerstone of every dividend-growth screen. It ended in May 2024: facing major litigation settlements and spinning off its healthcare arm as Solventum, 3M reset the quarterly to $0.70 — roughly 44% below the adjusted prior rate.
What the Record Shows Since
Two Februaries, two raises: $0.73 in 2025, $0.78 in 2026 — 11% above the reset floor. The trailing year paid $3.07 per share, about 1.7% of the recent $179.37 price. That's a modest yield, but the trajectory is the point: unlike AT&T, which froze after its 2022 cut and hasn't moved since, 3M went straight back to the raise-every-year habit at the new base. The market's question — was the reset a one-time re-founding or the first crack — gets answered one declaration at a time, and so far both answers have been raises.
Reading MMM Against the Field
For streak buyers, 3M is now a show-me story with a 2-year record where a 60-year one used to be — the estimator below prices what resumed growth is worth if it holds. For the broader lesson, the pairings write themselves: T (cut, then froze), XOM (never cut), and SCHD (diversifies the single-company risk that bit 3M holders). All of them overlay on the compare tool.
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