I have a friend who started working for 3M a couple of years ago.  She loves it there.  She did then.  She does now.  She's a tech writer, which in itself has nothing to do with market share or the factors that go into predicting what will happen with their stock...but she assures me that alles ist gut if you're asking the average worker, and this positive sentiment has survived the economic downturn.  Therefore, I'm betting the farm (including the silo) that there'll be a fifty cent gain on this stock by the time early March rolls around.